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Naval Air Systems Command

ELECTRONICS ENGINEER

Department of the Navy · Patuxent River, Maryland

Salary
$121,785 - $158,322 per year
Pay grade
GS-13
Schedule
Full-time
Appointment
Permanent
Opened
Oct 27, 2026
Closes
Nov 6, 2026
Remote
No
Telework eligible
Yes
Openings
5
Security clearance
Top Secret
Promotion potential
13
Announcement
ST-13098847-27-ARW

Who may apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) · Individuals with disabilities · Internal to an agency · Land and base management · Military spouses · Special authorities · Veterans

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Summary

You will serve as a SENIOR ELECTRONICS ENGINEER on the VH-92 FST of FLTREADCEN EAST.

Duties

  • You will manage the requirements for qualified personnel, processes, facilities, and ensure training/requirements are translated into sound engineering products.
  • You will determine the best approach to resolve complex technical engineering problems.
  • You will identify programmatic constraints involved with each problem and develop the ultimate solution considering all relative factors.
  • You will investigate, research, and determine applicability of modifications for the program.
  • You will ensure industrial planning and support of platform systems, components, and field team work/maintenance is accomplished efficiently.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: : 1) expertise in Fleet Support Team (FST) Engineering, 2) developing program sustainment and acquisition engineering support,; 3) effectively managing technical products and services required to sustain a weapon system, and 4) evaluating new approaches, guides and standards to make engineering decisions. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. OR Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org OR Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia,…

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