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Posted: March 23, 2026 (4 days ago)

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GENERAL ENGINEER

Naval Sea Systems Command

Department of the Navy

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$143,913 - $197,200

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GS-14 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $104,604 - $135,987

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-13. Senior expert or supervisor.

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

Job Description

Summary

This job involves leading the engineering work for designing, building, and maintaining steam turbine generators used on Navy ships, including reviewing plans, managing risks, and ensuring everything meets high standards.

It's perfect for an experienced engineer who loves working on complex machinery and has a background in naval or power systems.

You'll help keep the Navy's equipment ready and innovative while working in a government team in Washington, D.C.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to NH-03 (GS-13) level in engineering naval shipboard steam turbines and components like generators, bearings, couplings, and control systems
  • Professional engineering background with a degree in engineering or related field (per OPM standards)
  • Ability to provide technical leadership in design, planning, construction, and testing of steam turbine generators
  • Skills in conducting technical reviews of requirements, specifications, system designs, and analyses
  • Experience generating and documenting requirements, risks, assessments, and issues for engineering systems
  • Knowledge of procurement models to mitigate risks in designs and changes
  • Familiarity with maintaining processes, specifications, standards, and tools for naval equipment readiness

Full Job Description

You will serve as a GENERAL ENGINEER in the MARINE ENGINEERING GROUP of NAVSEA HQ FIELD SUPPORT.

This position is part of the DoD Civilian Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo). The NH-04 pay band encompasses positions equivalent to the GS 14-15 grade levels.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower pay band, NH-03 (GS-13 Equivalent), in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional Engineer analyzing and developing the design, operation or maintenance of naval shipboard steam turbines and associated sub-components including turbines, generators, bearings, couplings, and control systems.

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 provide technical leadership for the design, engineering, planning, construction and testing for Steam Turbine Generators.
  • You will generate, coordinate, and/or document component/system requirements, assessments, risks, and issues related to Steam Turbine Generators.
  • You will conduct technical reviews of Steam Turbine Generator requirements, specifications, system designs and analysis, design criteria, design products, and design waivers.
  • You will prepare technical adjudication reports on Steam Turbine Generator system configurations and trade studies.
  • You will develop and exercise new procurement models to mitigate risk in new designs and changes to existing designs.
  • You will maintain processes, specifications, standards, and tools supporting future capability and current readiness for the Navy's Stean Turbine Generators.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/23/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/24/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12913699-26-SAB