SMALL ARMS REPAIRER

Army National Guard Units; Havre de Grace (MD); On-site; USD 34,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Army National Guard Units in Havre de Grace, MD, seeks a National Guard Title 32 Small Arms Repairer to perform maintenance, repair, and inspections on pistols, rifles, and machine guns, with a focus on national match weapon accurization. Duties include disassembly, parts replacement, and test firing to ensure safety and reliability.

The position requires providing education documentation, and offers a pay range of $24.50–$38.41 per hour with a Secret clearance. Applications close 2026-11-15.

Qualifications

• Must provide transcripts or other documentation to verify education claims.

Responsibilities

• Maintains, repairs, and inspects small arms and related devices to ensure safety and accuracy.
• Performs accurization of national match weapons by selecting, fitting, and altering parts to improve precision.
• Disassembles weapons and inspects for defects, repairing and replacing worn parts as needed.

Job description

• Hiring Agency: Army National Guard Units

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This National Guard position is for a SMALL ARMS REPAIRER, Position Description Number D1227000 and is part of the MD CSMS, National Guard.

Key Responsibilities

The purpose of this position is to perform maintenance, repair, and inspections on small arms and related devices. The primary purposes are to provide maintenance repair and accurization of national match weapons. This position is responsible for the following duties: 1. Performs accurization of national match weapons (pistols, rifles, and light machine guns) on a limited basis.

Accurization involves altering and refining mass-produced weapons for use in national competition, by increasing their accuracy and reliability beyond factory specifications. This process involves selecting, fitting, and altering parts to improve the weapon.

Altering includes peening, bending, filing, grinding, and the use of lapping compound to alter parts such as individual slide, receiver, sear, disconnector, barrel, barrel bushing, magazine, hammer, recoil spring, flash suppressor, operating rod spring guide, gas cylinder, stock, and the spindle valve. 2. Disassembles weapons, assemblies, subassemblies and other components. Examines for defects, misalignment and malfunctions.

Replaces barrels, firing pins, springs, trigger mechanisms, shell ejectors, and other parts and assemblies. Modifies small weapons by replacing worn or obsolete parts and using hand and power tools, precision gauges, test instruments, jigs and alignment devices in making repairs, modifications, and adjustments. Applies final finishes and test fires and/or performs operational checks of arms repaired to ensure safety, accuracy, and ease of operation. 3.

Performs overhaul, maintenance, and repair on a variety of small arms. Diagnoses and identifies mechanical deficiencies and/or malfunctions in weapons including: automatic pistols, revolvers, shotguns, automatic rifles, grenade launchers, machine guns, and rocket launchers, and other small arms and accessories. 4. Uses micrometer to measure altered tolerances and makes additional adjustments as required. Anneals certain parts until the proper temper of the metal is obtained.

Selects certain parts of specific hardness by researching characteristics of various metals in technical manuals. Uses pre-set specifications to ensure that critical operating tolerances are met. Test fires weapons to ensure that they meet desired performance requirements. Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Education

You must provide transcripts or other documentation to support your Educational claims. To receive credit for Education, you must provide documentation of proof that you meet the Education requirements for this position.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Army National Guard Units, Department of the Army.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $24.5 – $38.41/hr.

What security clearance is required?

This position requires a Secret security clearance.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-11-15.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Nguard' hiring path.

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