91J Quartermaster and Chemical Equipment Repairer

Army National Guard; Salem (OR); On-site; USD 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the National Guard as a Quartermaster and Chemical Equipment Repairer, where you'll maintain critical systems, receive extensive training, and develop skills for a civilian career. Receive pay while you learn valuable job skills in mechanics and machinery repair, ensuring essential equipment stays in peak condition.

Benefits

Tuition assistance

Earn while you learn

Qualifications

• Training in marine engine maintenance and repair, internal combustion engine theory.
• Develop skills for maintaining and repairing various quartermaster machinery.
• Hands-on experience with decontamination and protective systems.

Responsibilities

• Service internal combustion engine ignition, fuel, cooling, and electrical systems.
• Perform damage assessment and repair on relevant machinery.

Skills

Shop Mechanics

Fixing Engines

Machinery

Education

Basic Training

Advanced Individual Training (AIT)

Tools

Hand Tools

Power Tools

Job description

The Army National Guard uses a wide range of systems that help protect and serve the force, and as a Quartermaster and Chemical Equipment Repairer, you’ll be in charge of making sure those systems keep running at peak performance.

As a Quartermaster and Chemical Equipment Repairer, you will support the maintenance of chemical decontamination equipment and quartermaster machinery. You will train to maintain laundry and bath equipment, pumps, engines, burners, filter units, and water purification units. Your skills will contribute to maintaining special purpose equipment, decontamination and protective filter systems, smoke generator systems, and chemical electrical systems.

Job Duties

• Service internal combustion engine ignition/fuel/cooling/electrical systems
• Perform damage assessment and repair

Some of the Skills You’ll Learn

• Internal combustion engine theory

Helpful Skills

• Interest in shop mechanics, fixing engines, and machinery

Through your training, you will develop the skills and experience to pursue a civilian career in marine transportation, commercial fishing, oil exploration, or oil drilling industries. You could consider a future as a marine engine mechanic.

Earn While You Learn

Instead of paying to learn these skills, get paid to train. In the Army National Guard, you will learn valuable job skills while earning a paycheck and qualifying for tuition assistance.

After 10 weeks of Basic Training, where you will learn fundamental Soldiering skills, you will attend 12 weeks of Advanced Individual Training (AIT). This training includes hands-on and classroom instruction on marine engine maintenance and repair, internal combustion engine theory, and the use and care of hand and power tools.