Location: OCONUS
Contract Duration: Temporary 90-day contract / deployment-based
Schedule: Extended hours, nights, weekends, holidays, and changing schedules as mission requires
Travel: Domestic and international travel required
Position Overview
Critical Response Strategies is seeking a Locksmith/Structures Technician to support a temporary OCONUS mission-support project. This position maintains and repairs structural components, doors, locks, pre-engineered permanent, semi-permanent, and temporary facilities, tension fabric shelters, trailer offices, lodging and water closets, metal ladders, stairs, railings, and structures for air conditioning units. The role requires hands-on technical execution, safety awareness, and the ability to work in a changing deployment environment while maintaining discretion regarding the client, site, and mission details.
CRS Mission Fit
- Mission First: Every role supports operational readiness and mission execution.
- Integrity in Action: CRS expects disciplined work, honest communication, and safe decision-making in the field.
- Respect for People & Purpose: Personnel are expected to work professionally with diverse teams, clients, and stakeholders in demanding environments.
Essential Responsibilities
- Install, maintain and repair all assigned doors, locks, structural components, roofing systems, floor systems, foundations, gutter systems and surface coverings.
- Perform metal and fabric repair, fabrication work, welding support to include oxy/acetylene cutting, corrosion control, pavement painting and striping, locksmith services and form work for concrete.
- Remodel, refurbish or demolish existing facilities.
- Install, maintain and repair protective coatings, sealants, epoxies, glues, paints and fencing.
- Major building interior finish repairs, such as the replacement or repair of acoustic ceiling tile and sheetrock ceilings and walls.
- Perform Carpentry installation / repairs to include:
- Whole Door Replacement
- Door handles, hinges, and closers
- Flooring repair (to include any sub floor)
- Any interior facility repairs
- Drywall repair (from replacing to finish, mud, sand, paint, etc.)
- Repair/Replace any roofing materials
- Perform Masonry installation / repairs to include:
- CMU (Concrete Masonry Units)
- Brick construction
- Tile applications from beginning to end
- Concrete Forms
- Perform Sheetmetal installation / repairs to include:
- Duct work.
- Metal patchwork (not including ducts)
- Rollup doors
- Perform Welding installation / repairs to include:
- Perform TFS (Tension Fabric Systems) installation / repairs to include:
- General knowledge of tent systems
- Perform Locksmithing installation / repairs to include:
- Mechanical personnel door locks
- Pad locks
- Cypher locks
Specific Technical Requirements
- Professional Locksmithing Certified.
- Shall be Registered Locksmiths and shall have sufficient expertise.
- Shall work with Keystone or current software.
Minimum Position Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required
- High school diploma or equivalent training/experience.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in the field of construction.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in the field of locksmithing.
- Professional Locksmithing Certified
- Shall be Registered Locksmiths and shall have sufficient expertise.
- Shall work with Keystone or current software.
- Ability to read and write English is required.
- Solid communications skills, strong interpersonal skills.
- Strong ability to work as a member of a diverse, dynamic team.
- Outstanding problem-solving skills and sound judgment.
- Possess a valid state issued driver’s license and passport. Passport must be valid for a minimum of 6 months following deployment.
- Must be able to pass an in depth background check.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain the appropriate US Government Clearance level. Note: US Citizenship is required to obtain a clearance.
- Must have physical ability to work in extreme environments. Including but not limited to extreme heat, extreme cold, extreme humidity, tropical environments etc.
Work Environment, Physical Demands, and Mental Demands
- Working conditions in over 100-degree Fahrenheit conditions.
- Frequently lifts items weighing 40-45 pounds and occasionally in excess of 50 pounds.
- Frequently climbing to over 12 feet and using lifts to access over 24 feet to perform job functions.
- Working with manual and electrical hand tools.
- Frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, extreme heat, and vibration.
- Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; and risk of electrical shock.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually loud or unsafe conditions, questioning nonstandard operations or environmental factors that may involve unmitigated hazards, and providing feedback to supervisors and managers on all safety issues.
- Long hours, exposure to weather and hazardous conditions.
- Personnel should be aware of moving on short notice and under adverse conditions.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally.
Equal Employment Opportunity
CRS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
