SES Satellites

Communications

• Provide first-level technical support for customer service and teleport operations, installation, and maintenance at the South Mountain, Somis Teleport
• Monitor, operate, troubleshoot, and maintain satellite communications equipment at the Somis teleport
• Remotely monitor and troubleshoot systems at the Haleiwa, Hawaii teleport
• Maintain ground operations service throughput for aerial vehicles, cruise line services, in-flight internet, and TT&C systems
• Participate in the design, installation, and operation of occasional missions
• Fabricate, install, maintain, and repair RF equipment used in satellite downlink and uplink operations
• Troubleshoot components and systems including HPAs, fiber-optic systems, upconverters, downconverters, RF switch assemblies, ACUs, LNAs, and LNBs
• Maintain and repair transmit/receive and receive-only satellite antenna systems
• Perform system-level and bench-level electronics troubleshooting
• Perform on-site installation, preventative maintenance, and routine repair or replacement of electronic and electromechanical equipment
• Maintain, monitor, and configure High Throughput Satellite equipment
• Troubleshoot equipment remotely and provide instructions via email, phone, and remote monitoring and control equipment
• Build, repair, calibrate, and modify electrical components, circuitry, controls, and machinery
• Install, calibrate, and maintain integrated computer/communications systems, consoles, simulators, and data acquisition, test, and measurement equipment
• Create and maintain RF drawings and block diagrams

Communications Satellite Technician