Supervisory General Engineer
United States Army Installation Management Command
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GENERAL ENGINEER
Naval Sea Systems Command
Department of the Navy
Location
Salary
$90,838 - $118,092
per year
Type
Full-Time
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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 engineer to plan, review, and improve maintenance strategies for aircraft carriers in the Navy, ensuring they stay ready for operations.
You'll analyze data, assess risks from delayed repairs, and update plans to include new technologies.
It's a good fit for engineers with experience in naval or large-scale maintenance who enjoy problem-solving to boost efficiency and safety.
Key Requirements
- At least one year of specialized experience at GS-11 level or equivalent in planning and executing naval maintenance and repair operations
- Professional engineering background, preferably in mechanical or systems engineering
- Ability to review and validate work from engineers, technicians, and contractors on life cycle management
- Skills in analyzing data to improve efficiency of maintenance operations
- Experience developing risk assessments for deferred maintenance impacts
- Knowledge of updating maintenance plans for operational requirements and material readiness
- Familiarity with incorporating new technologies into maintenance strategies
Full Job Description
You will serve as a GENERAL ENGINEER in the LIFE CYCLE ENGINEERING BRANCH of CARRIER PLANNING ACTIVITY.
Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower grade level/pay band GS-11 in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional engineer planning and executing, analyzing data to improve efficiency of naval maintenance and repair 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 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 work completed by other engineers, technicians, and contractors for life cycle management procedures, policies and strategies.
- You will update and refine aircraft carrier class maintenance plan requirements to support operation requirements and material readiness.
- You will evaluate the effect of deferring maintenance on aircraft carriers and develop risk assessments to document the impact to aircraft carrier life cycle strategies.
- You will validate maintenance requirements.
- You will develop life cycle strategies for maintenance of slow to degrade aircraft carrier distributive systems and selected components.
- You will update maintenance strategies to incorporate new technologies, change in operation requirement or changes to executability requirements.
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