This position provides technical maintenance, sustainment, and logistics support for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) and associated equipment. The role supports system assembly, testing, troubleshooting, repair, inventory management, configuration control, and operational readiness activities while coordinating with engineering, test, logistics, and Government personnel to ensure mission-ready UAS capabilities for test, demonstration, and field operations.

• Maintain accountability and inventory of UAS assets, components, tools, batteries, support equipment, and supplies.
• Build, assemble, configure, function check, troubleshoot, repair, and return sUAS platforms to operational status.
• Diagnose UAS electrical, electronic, RF, power, control, communications, and mechanical subsystems.
• Perform assembly, kitting, labeling, staging, and preparation of UAS systems and equipment for test and field activities.
• Develop and maintain buy lists for replacement parts, consumables, tools, test equipment, and sustainment materials.
• Track parts usage, shortages, repairs, asset condition, and material requirements.
• Manage task-completion timelines and priorities supporting customer schedules and surge events.
• Perform pre/post-operation inspections, configuration verification, functional checks, and maintenance documentation.
• Coordinate with engineers, operators, test personnel, logisticians, and Government stakeholders to resolve technical issues.
• Travel as required for testing, demonstrations, troubleshooting, and short-duration surge support. 

Required Qualifications
• High School Diploma, GED, vocational/technical certificate, or equivalent military technical training in electronics, aviation, unmanned systems, or related field.
• 10+ years of relevant electronics, aviation, unmanned systems, engineering technician, or military technical experience.
• Hands-on experience building, configuring, testing, troubleshooting, and repairing small UAS platforms and electronics.
• Experience using electronic test equipment, hand tools, diagnostic tools, schematics, wiring diagrams, and technical manuals.
• Experience with equipment inventory, parts accountability, material requirements, assembly/kitting, and technical schedules.
• Ability to safely operate a forklift for equipment movement, staging, inventory, and kitting.
• Ability to independently diagnose technical problems, determine corrective actions, and document repairs.
• Current Group 1 and Group 2 UAV license/certification and ability to maintain required flight qualifications.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.

Security Clearance Requirement: TS/SCI

Desired Qualifications
• SOCOM, NSWC Crane, Navy, Marine Corps, or other DoD UAS experience.
• Group 1/2 UAS operations, maintenance, payload integration, or test support.
• RF communications, data links, antennas, batteries, avionics, ground-control equipment, or payload electronics experience.
• Developmental/field testing or operational UAS event experience.
• Parts lists, BOMs, purchase requirements, or sustainment planning experience.
• IPC soldering certification or demonstrated electronics repair/rework experience.

About TRISTAR

TRISTAR is an SBA certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned professional services company supporting the U.S. Department of Defense programs. Our core competencies include Electronic Warfare, Enterprise Management, Full Spectrum Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Digital Transformation, Software Engineering and Development, Maritime Modernization and Engineering, and Technical Solutions.

TRISTAR was founded in March 1995 and has built an employee-focused collaborative environment which enables our team of professionals to create and deliver customized solutions to meet our customers’ mission critical challenges. TRISTAR’s core capabilities support customers with end-to-end solutions.

For over 30 years, TRISTAR has demonstrated and perfected our ability to successfully manage any task, small or large no matter how difficult or complex.

TRISTAR is proud to serve the Department of Defense and other Federal Agencies.

 

TRISTAR provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.