SURFACE MAINTENANCE SPECIALIST

Army National Guard Units; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 62,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The Army National Guard Units in South Carolina seeks a Surface Maintenance Specialist to analyze and evaluate maintenance operations, production, and procedures, and to recommend improvements. This position is part of the SC DOL and serves within the Joint Forces Headquarters-State logistics framework.

The work covers supervising and performing administrative tasks across multiple maintenance areas, applying specialized knowledge of equipment, facilities, and service operations to enhance

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree from an accredited college/university is mandatory.
• Graduate degree from an accredited civilian college or from an equivalent professional military education school is optimum.
• Positions for officers require pursuing an undergraduate degree with 90 validated credits.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and evaluate maintenance operations, production, and procedures; recommend improvements.
• Manage, supervise, lead, or perform administrative work across maintenance-related activities.

Skills

Maintenance analysis

Operations evaluation

Leadership

Administrative work

Education

Undergraduate degree mandatory

Graduate degree optimum

Job description

• Hiring Agency: Army National Guard Units

This is a National Guard Title 32 Excepted position for a SURFACE MAINTENANCE SPECIALIST, Position Description Number PDD1254000 , and is part of the SC DOL, South Carolina Army National Guard.

Key Responsibilities

This position is located in the Joint Forces Headquarters-State, Logistics Directorate (J-4/G-4), State Surface Maintenance Management Office. The primary purpose of the work is to analyze and evaluate maintenance operations, production, and procedures; and make recommendations for improvement. This requires practical knowledge of, and skill in applying, principles, concepts, and methods of surface maintenance equipment, facilities, and service operations.

Work involves managing, supervising, leading, or performing administrative work that involves: a combination of work characteristic of two or more series in the Equipment, Facilities, and Services Group where no one type of work is series controlling; or work classified in this group for which no other series has been established.

Requirements & Education

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: Army National Guard and Air National Guard Officers GS-11 through GS-14: Positions An undergraduate degree from an accredited college or university is mandatory. A graduate degree from an accredited civilian academic college or from an equivalent professional military education school is optimum.

Army National Guard Officer GS-09 and GS-10 Positions: For Army National Guard Second and First Lieutenants must be actively pursuing an undergraduate degree with at least 90 validated credit hours in a specified program. For Captains and above, must have an undergraduate degree from an accredited college or university. Army National Guard Warrant Officers GS-09 through GS-12: Positions Must have a high school diploma or general education development (GED) diploma.

An undergraduate degree from an accredited college/university is optimum. Army National Guard and Air National Guard Enlisted GS-09 through GS-12: Positions Must have a high school diploma or a general education development (GED) diploma. An undergraduate degree from an accredited college/university is optimum.

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 $61722 – $80243/yr.

What security clearance is required?

This position requires a Secret security clearance.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-10-01.

Who is eligible to apply?

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