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ELECTRONICS ENGINEER

Naval Sea Systems Command

Department of the Navy

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$90,838 - $118,092

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GS-11 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $62,107 - $80,737

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-10. Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 years graduate study.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves working as an electronics engineer for the Navy, where you'll review plans, evaluate contractor work, and ensure electronic systems on aircraft carriers—like radios, radars, and navigation tools—are installed and tested correctly according to military standards.

It's a hands-on role focused on quality control, coordination with teams, and handling changes to engineering projects.

A good fit would be someone with engineering experience in shipbuilding or defense systems who enjoys technical oversight and collaboration in a structured government environment.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-11 level or equivalent, reviewing electric plant installation standards for shipboard electronics
  • Professional engineering background in designing, integrating, and testing aircraft carrier electronic systems (e.g., radio communications, radar, navigation, tactical networks, self-defense systems)
  • Ability to interpret and apply military specification requirements for shipboard electronics
  • Experience maintaining surveillance, reviewing, and evaluating contractor plans, technical data, and engineering changes
  • Skills in coordinating with contractors, design engineers, and naval personnel through meetings and liaison efforts
  • Familiarity with processing requests for specification departures, engineering equivalencies, and contract changes
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field, per OPM qualification standards for professional engineering positions

Full Job Description

You will serve as an ELECTRONICS ENGINEER in the Electronics and Fire Control Branch, Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department of SUPSHIP.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: as a professional engineer reviewing Electric Plant Installation Standard Methods, Navy Installation and Maintenance Book Installation Standards to design, shipboard installation, integration, and testing of aircraft carrier electronic systems to include radio communications, radar, navigation systems, tactical networks, or ship self-defense systems for the application and interpretation of military specification requirements for shipboard electronics.

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. Major Duties:

  • You will review and analyze incoming correspondence and preparation of ongoing technical correspondence.
  • You will maintain surveillance of preparation, review, and evaluate working plans, vendor plans, and other technical data prepared or presented by the contractor.
  • You will evaluate adequacy and acceptability of ultimate products produced from plans and documents to meet the intended purpose for which designed.
  • You will review and evaluate requests for departure from specification (including so-called "engineering equivalencies") and initiate action required to process the request.
  • You will review and evaluate Contractor's "scoping" engineering changes, when requested, to determine that the scope of the work envisioned by the Contract meets in intent of the contract change and whether the change is reasonable.
  • You will review and/or prepare proposed engineering contract changes to determine that the proposed change contains sufficient specifications to insure clarity, correctness, etc. feasibility of arrangement and/or installation guidance plans.
  • You will coordinate efforts and maintains liaison through meetings and conferences with Contractor supervisors and design engineers and other engineering personnel from within the organization and from other Naval commands.
  • You will initiate action and/or act as liaison in the obtaining of Government Furnished Information (GFI) specified in the contracts or required to enable the Contractor to install Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) as specified in the contract.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/17/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/17/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12909090-26-SAG