Engineering Technician (Civil)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN (MECHANICAL)
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 a mechanical engineering technician in a naval shipyard, where you'll handle the maintenance, repair, and troubleshooting of equipment like cranes and rigging systems used in ship operations.
You'll also create technical documents, analyze ways to improve designs and procedures, and test new or upgraded ship systems to ensure they work properly.
It's a great fit for someone with hands-on experience in mechanical systems from the military, shipbuilding, or industrial maintenance who enjoys problem-solving in a technical team environment.
Key Requirements
- At least one year of specialized experience at GS-11 level or equivalent in providing technical engineering services for mechanical systems
- Experience in maintenance, repair, and troubleshooting of weight handling, material handling, and rigging equipment in shipyard operations
- Ability to develop technical work documents, quality assurance forms, and correspondence like letters and LARs
- Skills in performing analysis and special studies to improve design, maintenance procedures, or materials for mechanical systems
- Proficiency in functional checkout, grooming, adjustment, and testing of new or modernized ship systems in operational environments
- Capability to evaluate ship repair, overhaul, test, and grooming problems to diagnose and correct deficiencies
Full Job Description
You will serve as a ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN (MECHANICAL) in the ENGINEERING AND PLANNING DEPARTMENT, CODE 260.3 or CODE 294S, 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: providing technical engineering services involving the maintenance, repair and troubleshooting of mechanical systems on weight handling equipment, material handling and rigging equipment used to support shipyard operations.
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 Link: 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 develop technical work documents, quality assurance forms and write correspondence such as Letters and LARs.
- You will perform analysis and special studies for the purpose of developing or evaluating improvements in design, maintenance procedures or materials for assigned systems.
- You will perform functional checkout, grooming, adjustment and test of new or modernized ship systems in an operational evaluation environment.
- You will evaluate ship repair/overhaul or test and grooming problems to diagnose and correct deficiencies.
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