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United States Fleet Forces Command

SUPERVISORY GENERAL ENGINEER

Department of the Navy · Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia

Salary
$127,646 - $165,945 per year
Pay grade
GS-14
Schedule
Full-time
Appointment
Permanent
Opened
Oct 30, 2026
Closes
Nov 9, 2026
Remote
No
Telework eligible
No
Openings
Few
Security clearance
Secret
Promotion potential
14
Announcement
ST-13102027-27-NMD

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 SUPERVISORY GENERAL ENGINEER in the Assistant Chief Engineer for Submarines (Code 244B), Office of the Chief Engineering (Code 240), Engineering and Planning Department (EPD) (Code 200) of of NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD.

Duties

  • You will serve as the Assistant Chief Engineer for submarines and directly supervise others. .
  • You will be responsible for managing performance, administration, and coordination of all submarine work with other division heads in the department.
  • You will participate in top-level shipyard management meetings, conferences, and committees with other departments in the shipyard as well as external stakeholders.
  • You will support NAVESEA Business Policy performance initiatives to support NNSY's objectives.
  • You will provide technical oversight and assign work based on priorities, assignment difficulty, and employee capabilities.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience providing engineering consultation/investigation and technical authority over all non-nuclear submarine work; Experience in furnishing design/test engineering services, material procurement specifications; Experience in evaluating non-conforming technical requirements for acceptability; Experience developing, preparing, and issuing pier and dry docking arrangement plans; Experience in accomplishment of operational, intermediate, and depot level submarine maintenance availabilities. Experience supporting NAVSEA Business Policy performance initiatives, determining effectiveness of operations. Experience with engineering and submarine program management and collaboration with personnel at NAVSEA and other activities discussing technical and program management as well as operational problems involving all phases of submarine repair, conversion, overhaul, modernization, and construction. 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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