
ILS Training Specialist (RESA IV)
Olympia, WAJobSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The ILS Training Specialist develops and maintains curriculum and operator training materials for underwater sensor systems and unmanned underwater vehicles with tactical sensors. The role supports system testing, maintenance, field engineering, troubleshooting, and technical documentation, while coordinating training activities with Navy, contractor, and laboratory personnel. It also provides liaison, briefing, vendor and partner coordination, and end-user logistics support.
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Full job description
Serve as a Training Specialist, responsible for developing and maintaining comprehensive curriculum material for unique underwater sensor systems and for a system of unmanned underwater vehicles with tactical sensors. Serve as a team member for the development of operator training materials and for providing operator training.Participate in formal documentation through the development of test and maintenance procedures and formal work packages. Participate in the development of technical documentation and manuals to support operation and maintenance of unique underwater sensors.Participate in system testing, maintenance and training onboard an Operational Training Platform, UUV support platforms and/or on US Navy platforms. Provide field engineering support; use manuals and automated electronic tools to troubleshoot, assemble and repair electromechanical assemblies, computers and computer networks.Serve as the Assistant Training Coordinator for an integrated team of Navy, contractor and laboratory personnel responsible for reviewing and approving all training materials as well as scheduling and coordinating training activities and scheduling with Navy, contractor and laboratory personnel.Perform liaison tasks with sponsoring organizations and prepare and present formal progress and status briefs covering on-going activities.Maintain working relationships with vendors, program sponsors, project partner organizations, and system operators from the US Navy. Research and incorporate new technologies for system enhancements. Assist Supervisor and Engineers as required, travel as required.Respond to emergent needs of end-users of advanced sensors with respect to logistics and operational availability.Other related functions as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 718 open Training Specialist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$80–104K/yr384 salary ranges
- US median$25–26/hr100 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 20 open Training Specialist jobs in Washington and 718 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- Acosta Group3 open
- Lockheed Martin2 open
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- Experience
- Training Specialist postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (557 postings).
- Education
- 205 of the 718 open Training Specialist jobs (29%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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