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INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER

U.S. Pacific Fleet

Department of the Navy

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$95,994 - $129,129

per year

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GS-8 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $46,479 - $60,424

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-7. Graduate study or significant experience.

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

Job Description

Summary

This job involves managing the safety certification and maintenance of drydocks at a naval shipyard in Hawaii, ensuring these large facilities stay operational and safe for repairing ships.

You'll plan projects, coordinate with teams and contractors, and review work to meet strict standards, especially for nuclear-powered vessels.

It's a great fit for an experienced engineer who enjoys hands-on oversight of industrial infrastructure in a military setting.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-11 level or equivalent, applying engineering principles to plan and coordinate industrial facility projects
  • Professional engineering background in Civil (0810), Mechanical (0830), or Electrical (0850) disciplines
  • Ability to manage safety certification programs for drydock facilities
  • Skills in planning, scheduling, and overseeing maintenance, repairs, and alterations to ensure compliance with standards
  • Experience coordinating projects with commands like NAVFAC and production shops or contractors
  • Knowledge of drydock operating procedures, nuclear ship docking requirements, and design control processes
  • Proficiency in reviewing plans for engineering accuracy, policy conformance, and technical requirements

Full Job Description

You will serve as a Drydock Engineer in the Facilities Production Division, Production Resources Department of PEARL HARBOR NSY AND IMF.

Salary Range: GS-0810-12: $95,994 to $124,031 GS-0830-12: $95,994 to $124,031 GS-0850-12: $101,092 to $129,129 Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-11) or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional engineer applying engineering methods, theories, principles, concepts, and standards to plan and coordinate work for industrial facilities or infrastructure projects; and develop and advise on solutions to modify standard practices, equipment, processes, or techniques to ensure the quality, safety, or effectiveness of equipment and compliance with requirements (e.g., plans, specifications, costs, labor, and materials).

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 manage the Drydock Facilities Safety Certification Program for Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard.
  • You will plan, administer and coordinate all actions necessary to ensure continuous certification of the four graving docks in the Shipyard.
  • You will coordinate pertinent projects with Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) and carry out the accomplishment of projects by the production shops, NAVFAC shops, or contract.
  • You will review all work projects of each phase for completeness and conformance of all requirements.
  • You will provide input to the lead drydock engineer to the monthly Workload and Resource Report (WARR) to ensure drydock maintenance downtimes are programmed and planned into the drydock availability schedules.
  • You will be responsible for ensuring all additional requirements invoked by NAVSEA for docking of nuclear-powered ships are met with proper report/documentations for certification.
  • You will ensure drydocking safety certification for each dock is maintained current by providing the planning, scheduling and overseeing all projects for maintenance, repairs, alterations, etc. are carried out conformance with drydocking standards.
  • You will ensure that Drydock Operating Procedures are maintained current and that drydock operations are conducted in accordance with these procedures.
  • You will ensure that design and other system changes to the drydocks are affected through the Design Control Board.
  • You will review final plans for engineering accuracy and conformance to policy, procedures and technical requirements.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/9/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/9/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12899477-26-DKC