Sensor / Media / Exploitation Technician

Summary
Obtain qualifications and maintain currency, proficiency, for all payload, video production and imagery exploitation systems the company operates.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Operate as an air crewmember and assist/advise pilots as appropriate.
• Ability to use maps, charts, grid systems both in the realm of safety of flight issues as well as target acquisition.
• Surveys worksite for Ground Control Station (GCS) positioning to facilitate connection and testing of local equipment including: networking, video, closed caption video, fiber optic cables, and ICS.
• Assist in the pack out, setup, teardown, and recovery of the company's assets and equipment as require.
• Serves as an advisor to company personnel and customers on how to best acquire, utilize and present collected.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. An individual with a strong working knowledge within any of the following areas, and willing to cross-train into the other two is desired and required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience
Three to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Sensor

• Five years of work experience with aerial sensors, communications equipment and in flight checklist procedures.
• Familiarity withcross-cuing, airspace management, and be able to provide full motion video.
• Experience as a mission director and or liaison between flight crew and airspace controlling agencies.
• Familiarity with VHF and UHF communications.

Media

• Ability to design and create original motion graphics and visual enhancements, using Adobe Creative Suite applications, specifically After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and Encor.
• Ability to encode audio and video programs using compression hardware and software tools in Final Cut Pro, QuickTime, Flash, Windows Media, MP4, and MP3 file formats. Working knowledge of video encoding standards such as MPEG2/4, H.264 and codecs VLC, WMV, MOV, AVI, etc. Ability to deliver final products in high and standard definition video formats.
• Operate DVD/Blu-Ray duplication and labeling equipment.
• Knowledge of Ethernet to fiber media converters and V-Brick MPEG encoders/decoders.

Exploitation

• Knowledge of basic and advanced imagery interpretation principles, techniques, and procedures for imagery exploitation, reports, and presentations.
• Ability to exploit and output imagery products in standard and planned data formats for motion imagery and conventional imagery sources. These formats shall include evolving new data structure and compression standards.
• Knowledge of national imagery intelligence collection systems, procedures and techniques of collating, analyzing, and evaluating imagery intelligence.
• Ability to use of maps, charts, grid systems, and interpreting equipment to solve imagery intelligence problems.

Language Skills
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Possess the ability to communicate with flight crews, analysts, and customers with clarity.

Computer Skills
Knowledgeable in using the following:

• MS Office Suite
• FalconView Software
• MAC operating system
• Understand basic networking and associated equipment

Operational experience with the General Dynamics, Multi-Int Analysis & Archival System (MAAS).

Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:

• Stand and walk
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel
• Reach with hands and arms
• Climb or balance
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Talk or hear
• Taste or smell
• Must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus
• Maintain adequate health and fitness standards for worldwide deploy ability to all assigned field locations

Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is:

• Regularly exposed to the extremes in heat, cold and inclement weather. High winds, dirt, and dust are common in the work place.
• Performing work in hangar areas, outdoors, on parked aircraft and sometimes in hazardous noise areas.
• Must often work in confined spaces and in awkward positions.
• May be exposed to oil, hydraulic fluid, solvents and hazardous fluids and gases, to include, but not limited to Halon. Grease and aircraft fluids are common in the work place.
• Outdoor environment can be rugged where cuts, bruises, muscle strain and injury from falls are possible.
• At times, the employee will be exposed to actuating flight control surfaces and rotating propellers from which they must remain clear to avoid serious injury.