Hiring Radio/911 Technician - York County, SC

[YorkCoPublicSafetyComms]

We are hiring a Electronics/Communications Technician to serve in the Technical Services Division of Public Safety Communications in York County, SC. York County Government owns and operates a Motorola P25 radio network, alpha-numeric paging system, Central Square CAD, Motorola VESTA 911 system, USDD fire station alerting system, and a VHF/UHF amateur repeater system.

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Electronics/Communications Technician

York County is located in the Piedmont region, between the Broad River and the Catawba River. Its diverse landscape is home to family-friendly towns/cities, a progressive urban region and lakefront communities. We are excited you want to join our team and recognize that our employees are the...

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[n3obl]

A shame they requires a bachelor. Someone may have an associates with experience. HR people who don’t understand these jobs.

 

[D31245]

At the end of the job posting, they do have a statement for those without the requisite 4-year degree:

Applicants with equivalent experience and/or education may be considered.

 

[n3obl]

At the end of the job posting, they do have a statement for those without the requisite 4-year degree:

Ah for some reason it didn’t show on a mobile device. When I looked on laptop it’s there. My bad. Sorry.

 

[cavmedic]

At the end of the job posting, they do have a statement for those without the requisite 4-year degree:

Providing the applicant passes through any automated filtering that may be in play.. I've had a few applications over the years where I met and exceeded the alternative statement, only to be automatically "disqualified" for not meeting said 4-year degree minutes after submission.

 

[MUTNAV]

I don't believe the job involves maintaining ham repeater systems (based on the offer in the link). Although it's interesting that having a license is a requirement.

Aside from that, seems like a LOT of qualifications and requirements for someone that (isn't advertised) to be a leader of a section.

Thanks
Joel

 

[cavmedic]

I don't believe the job involves maintaining ham repeater systems (based on the offer in the link). Although it's interesting that having a license is a requirement.

Aside from that, seems like a LOT of qualifications and requirements for someone that (isn't advertised) to be a leader of a section.

Thanks
Joel

The could have county owned ham equipment for Ares/Races

As for the requirements, it appears that only a Drivers license Is required. The rest don’t specify that.

 

[WB5UOM]

Trying to combine an IT person with a degree and a experienced radio tech is laughable to me.
making a amateur radio license a requirement makes it that much more silly.
and for the pay listed, really?

 

[cavmedic]

Trying to combine an IT person with a degree and a experienced radio tech is laughable to me.
making a amateur radio license a requirement makes it that much more silly.
and for the pay listed, really?

Unfortunately the days of being a radio tech without knowing IT are long gone. Especially when dealing with the 911 systems listed.

It’s a one stop tech for everything it appears.

 

[MUTNAV]

Unfortunately the days of being a radio tech without knowing IT are long gone. Especially when dealing with the 911 systems listed.

It’s a one stop tech for everything it appears.

Although I like the idea of one stop technicians for everything, it just seems to me that the list of certifications needed are kind of high for someone.

Is this normal with the current state of communications technology?
Is this considered entry level?

Thanks
Joel

 

[AK9R]

Unfortunately the days of being a radio tech without knowing IT are long gone. Especially when dealing with the 911 systems listed.

As a systems engineer in the temperature control business, I initially thought having IT knowledge was laughable. Then, we started doing temperature controls over the customer's IT network. I then convinced my boss to send me to community college to take some IT courses.

On networked public safety systems, I can see where having IT knowledge would be critical.

 

[cavmedic]

The way I read that was the only thing required was a valid drivers license and GROL . Everything else appears preferred.
Being on the tech side of 911, nothing really jumps out at me as being overly required.

Most of the certifications, you could get within a few weeks as some is redundant.
They also could be listing some of that to keep away those who bull**** their way into the position and wouldn't have a clue...

As a systems engineer in the temperature control business, I initially thought having IT knowledge was laughable. Then, we started doing temperature controls over the customer's IT network. I then convinced my boss to send me to community college to take some IT courses.

On networked public safety systems, I can see where having IT knowledge would be critical.

P25 systems are 90% networking and 10 % RF . If its a Motorola system, its even worse.

 

[KevinC]

Closing. The intent of this forum was for job postings, not for debating the benefits or qualification requirements of said post.