ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN
U.S. Pacific Fleet
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ELECTRONICS ENGINEER
Naval Air Systems Command
Department of the Navy
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 job involves working as an electronics engineer for the Navy, focusing on maintaining and improving weapon systems through engineering support, evaluations, and cost analyses to keep military platforms reliable and affordable.
A good fit would be someone with strong technical engineering experience in defense or similar fields, who enjoys problem-solving and managing team efforts on complex projects.
It's ideal for professionals who can balance technical decisions with practical budgeting in a government setting.
Key Requirements
- At least one year of specialized experience at GS-13 level or equivalent in federal, private, or public sector
- Experience developing program sustainment and acquisition engineering support
- Skills in managing technical and professional services for weapon system sustainment
- Ability to evaluate new approaches, guides, and standards for engineering decisions
- Bachelor's degree in electronics engineering or related field (meets basic OPM requirements)
- Proficiency in overseeing engineering documents, change proposals, and technical directives
- Experience with cost analysis, tradeoffs, and economic analyses for engineering projects
Full Job Description
You will serve as an Electronics Engineer in the Fleet Support Team (FST) Group of FLTREADCEN EAST.
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: 1.) Developing program sustainment and acquisition engineering support.
2.) Managing technical and professional services required to sustain a weapon system. 3.) 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 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 oversee development or evaluation of engineering and logistics documents, engineering change proposals, technical directives, inspection/maintenance requirements, repairs and redesign of the platforms systems and components.
- You will recommend and propose personnel actions to higher levels of supervision leadership.
- You will investigate, research, and determine applicability of major modifications for the program.
- You will monitor performance of engineering technical analyses, engineering investigations, economic analyses and support services.
- You will develop cost analysis tradeoffs for varying degrees of capability to ensure requirements are balanced with affordability
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