Christopher Payne

Electronic Technician

U.S. Navy

10.2004 - Current

Electronics Technicians (ET) perform, supervise, and manage the preventive and corrective maintenance, calibration, configuration, and alignment of cryptographic, radar, navigation, and Command, Control
Computer, Communication, and Intelligence (C4I) systems, utilizing test equipment and technical drawings
Electronics Radar Systems Technicians maintain surface search, air search, weather radar systems, radar video switchboards, synchro Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) equipment, and tactical air navigation equipment, including all associated cabling, cooling water, and dry air systems
Other duties include completing fiber optic and basic soldering repair, electrical safety checks, and test equipment calibration and supervising personnel who conduct tool and test equipment inventories, logistics support, and maintenance and testing of systems and equipment
Electronic Communications Technicians maintain shore-based, ship-based, and portable communications equipment, including all associated cabling, computer, multiplexing, switching, cryptographic, recording, cooling water, and dry air systems
Electronic Communications Technicians analyze equipment operation and align, troubleshoot, and repair equipment to the lowest replaceable unit
In addition, they execute casualty control procedures, restoring operability for all assigned electronic equipment, and recognizing mission criticality and redundancies within systems
They perform administrative functions that include updating casualty reporting messages, technical manuals, equipment maintenance records, and managing test equipment calibration requirements
Other duties include completing fiber optic and basic soldering repair, electrical safety checks, test equipment calibration, and supervising personnel who conduct tool and test equipment inventories, logistics support, and maintenance and testing of systems and equipment
Reads and interprets schematics and block diagrams; uses test equipment and hand tools; repairs electrical/electronic cables and connectors; localizes malfunctions and repairs or replaces faulty parts or subassemblies; operates, aligns, adjusts, calibrates, and performs preventive maintenance on equipment; inventories tools and portable test equipment; completes maintenance data forms
Maintains radar transmitting equipment, radar receiving equipment, radar identification equipment, communications equipment, and air navigation equipment; localizes malfunctions to systems, subsystems, circuits, and parts; inventories installed equipment; completes maintenance reports; prepares weekly preventive maintenance schedules
Diagnoses, isolates, aligns, adjusts, and calibrates electronic subsystems; monitors maintenance quality control; maintains inventory of parts; reviews completed maintenance data forms; trains subordinates in the operation of tests on systems and subsystems.

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