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Posted: February 17, 2026 (2 days ago)

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INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNITY PLANNER/GENERAL ENGINEER/ARCHITECT

Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command

Department of the Navy

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$143,913 - $187,093

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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 leading planning efforts for infrastructure and facilities in the Navy, including guiding projects, analyzing rules to make smart decisions on resources and sites, and working with teams to resolve issues.

It's ideal for experienced planners, engineers, or architects who enjoy coordinating big-picture strategies and communicating effectively in a government setting.

Someone with a background in public sector projects and strong relationship-building skills would thrive here.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-13 level or equivalent in infrastructure and facility planning
  • Ability to provide guidance and technical support for planning projects
  • Skills in analyzing policies, regulations, and processes for project development, site planning, resourcing, and Anti-Deficiency Act compliance
  • Strong communication abilities to explain decisions, justify actions, and resolve conflicts in planning issues
  • Experience tracking project development, workload forecasting, resource allocation, and performing technical reviews
  • Proficiency in collaborating, coordinating, and maintaining relationships across organizations
  • Qualifications in community planning, engineering, or architecture per OPM standards

Full Job Description

You will serve as a Senior Project Planner in the Planning, Design, and Construction (PDC) Directorate's Strategic Planning Division, PDC3. of NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING SYSTEMS COMMAND.

Your resume must 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) Provides guidance and technical support for a wide range of infrastructure and facility planning projects; 2) Analyzes and interprets policies, regulations, instructions and processes to make project development, site planning, resourcing, and Anti-Deficiency Act work classification decisions and solutions; 3) Effective communication skills to explain, explore, justify decisions, and resolve controversies and/or conflicting planning or project development issues; 4) Tracks the development, delivery, workload forecasting, and resource allocation and performs technical review project development / facility planning projects and 5) Collaborates, coordinates, builds and maintains relationships within and outside current division/department/business line/organization.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: 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/0000/community-planning-series-0020/ https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/architecture-series-0808/ 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 guidance and technical support for a wide range of infrastructure and facility planning projects
  • You will analyze and interprets policies, regulations, instructions and processes to make project development, site planning, resourcing, and Anti-Deficiency Act work classification decisions and solutions
  • You will have effective communication skills to explain, explore, justify decisions, and resolve controversies and/or conflicting planning or project development issues
  • You will track the development, delivery, workload forecasting, and resource allocation and perform technical review project development / facility planning projects
  • You will collaborate, coordinate, build and maintain relationships within and outside current division/department/business line/organization

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/17/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/17/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12884734-26-TS