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ADMINISTRATIVE/TECHNICAL SPECIALIST
Naval Sea Systems Command
Department of the Navy
Location
Salary
$106,437 - $163,514
per year
Type
Closes
February 17, 2026
GS-13 Pay Grade
Base salary range: $88,520 - $115,079
Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-12. Expert-level knowledge in field.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This role involves acting as a deputy manager in a naval warfare center division, where you'll oversee daily project operations, develop strategies for things like staffing and facilities, and ensure smooth business processes through monitoring and improvements.
It's a leadership position focused on guiding teams, resolving issues, and maintaining quality standards in a technical government setting.
A good fit would be someone with experience in program management and operations in a structured organization, who enjoys leading people and solving practical challenges.
Key Requirements
- At least one year of specialized experience at GS-11/12 level or equivalent, providing programmatic and technical guidance
- Experience leading development, implementation, and sustainment of strategies or policies for human capital, facilities, or technical capabilities
- Ability to oversee daily operations of projects as a deputy division manager
- Skills in providing leadership to supervisors and staff, including approving leave, travel, awards, and resolving employee issues
- Proficiency in execution reviews, using business tools and metrics for cost, quality, risk, and schedule management
- Experience working with managers to address operational issues and implement corrective actions
- Knowledge of quality management systems and continuous improvement programs
Full Job Description
You will serve as an ADMINISTRATIVE/TECHNICAL SPECIALIST in the Maritime Electromagnetic Warfare Systems Division (WXM), Electromagnetic Spectrum Department (WX) of NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER.
The salary range shown above represents all of the positions within the band, including high grade positions.
This is not a high grade position; therefore, the salary may be limited to a GS-13 Step 10 (currently $138,370).
Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NT-04 (GS-11/12 equivalent) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.
Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: providing programmatic and technical guidance, leading development, implementation and sustainment of strategies or policies to assess and resolve operational issues and improve business operations (e.g.
human capital, facilities, technical capabilities) for an organization.
Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series The Secretary of Defense has ordered a department-wide hiring freeze subject to certain limited exceptions.
This position is subject to the DoD hiring freeze. Offers of employment related to this vacancy announcement will not be executed until the position has an approved exemption.
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. Major Duties:
- You will serve as Deputy Division Manager to oversee daily operation of projects within the Division.
- You will lead development, implementation, and sustainment of the Division's strategies and policy (e.g. human capital, facilities, technical capabilities) into division initiatives, planning and process.
- You will provide oversight on division's key functions via execution reviews, business tools and metrics for cost, quality, risk management, and schedule monitoring.
- You will provide leadership to supervisors and staff, approve leave and travel orders, recommend awards, resolve informal employee complaints, address personal issues.
- You will work with branch managers and key staff to address operational issues within the division and put corrective actions and processes into place for resolution.
- You will oversee division quality management system and continuous improvement program.
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