The phrase "the open position" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a job or role that is currently available for someone to fill. Example: "The company is currently looking to fill the open position for a marketing manager. Interested candidates should submit their resumes and cover letters by the end of the week."
One was locked in the closed position; the other was fixed in the open position.
If an alternating-current solenoid sticks in the open position the coil is likely to burn out.
For example, he said, the disk is backed up by a valve that is normally in the open position.
For much of the time with this music, you will be playing in the "open position" - ie. around frets 1-4 and with the open (unfretted) strings.
No notification was given to tenants and as a result I inadvertently left my water taps in my bathroom in the open position while getting ready for work.
But on Sunday afternoon, in the building's basement, the machine became stuck in the open position and remained that way last night as officials prepared to remove it.
In the open position, the door of the storage hatch serves as a kickstand to hold the phone up in either horizontal or vertical orientation.
When the energizing current is removed, the hinged part is forced back to the open position by the springiness of the contact.
Head coach Ron English was Lloyd Carr's defensive coordinator and a candidate for the open position that went to Rich Rodriguez in 2008.
The Pleasure Beach Bridge, a wooden plank structure built in 1920 now in the Historic American Engineering Record, has been in the open position in the middle of the Lewis Gut channel since fire damaged its southern end in 1996.
The crossing, the fourth bridge at the site, has been left in the open position since 1997, when the state Department of Transportation determined that its substructures were moving.
