Supervisory Engineering Technician (Aerospace)
Federal Aviation Administration
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ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Department of the Navy
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 engineering technician for the U.S.
Navy in Bremerton, Washington, where you'll inspect ships, create and review technical drawings, solve engineering issues, and plan modifications for naval vessel repairs and upgrades.
It's ideal for someone with hands-on experience in technical documentation and problem-solving in a shipyard or maintenance environment, who enjoys detail-oriented work on complex systems.
A good fit would be a detail-focused professional comfortable with naval or engineering projects.
Key Requirements
- At least one year of specialized experience at GS-11 level or equivalent in developing or modifying technical engineering methods for naval vessel repair, alteration, maintenance, or overhaul
- Experience in packaging, assembling, and updating technical work documents such as processes, procedures, drawings, work controls, material lists, equipment specs, and quality assurance documentation
- Ability to perform ship checks of as-built conditions to inform engineering design decisions
- Skills in developing and reviewing engineering drawings for Navy Modernization programs
- Proficiency in solving complex technical problems through Liaison Action Requests
- Capability to conduct studies on large, complex systems and define modifications to alter system behavior
- Experience analyzing, assessing, coordinating, and developing tasking for executing Ship Change Document requirements on-site
Full Job Description
You will serve as a ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN in the ENGINEERING AND PLANNING DEPARTMENT of PSNS and IMF.
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: ???????developing or modifying technical engineering methods and techniques to package, assemble, and update technical work documents (e.g., shipyard/shop processes and procedures; drawings; work controls; material, equipment, quality assurance documentation) relative to naval vessel repair, alteration, maintenance or overhaul.
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 IOR: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/engineering-technical-series-0802/ 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 perform ship check of as-built conditions to make engineering design decisions.
- You will develop and check Engineering drawings for Navy Modernization.
- You will solve complex technical problems via Liaison Action Request.
- You will conduct studies of large and complex systems and to define modifications to change the behavior of such systems.
- You will analyze, assess, coordinate, and develop tasking for on-site execution of Ship Change Document requirements.
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