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Plant Superintendent

U.S. Mint

Department of the Treasury

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Location

Salary

$184,959 - $197,200

per year

Closes

February 17, 2026More Treasury jobs →

GS-15 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $123,041 - $159,950

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-14. Senior leader or top expert.

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

Job Description

Summary

This job is for a Plant Superintendent at the U.S.

Mint in San Francisco, where you'll oversee the high-volume production of proof coin sets, manage teams across manufacturing, safety, and support functions, and ensure everything runs efficiently to meet quality and customer goals.

It's ideal for an experienced manufacturing leader who excels at directing large teams, handling budgets, and driving process improvements in a fast-paced environment.

You'll need strong skills in team leadership and problem-solving to keep operations smooth and safe.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience at GS-14 level or equivalent, overseeing multiple professional staff in a high-volume manufacturing facility to meet customer and organizational goals
  • Manager-level experience promoting and monitoring a safe work environment with compliance to environmental, health, and safety laws
  • Experience managing and authorizing budgets and expenditures in a manufacturing setting
  • Experience recommending, supporting, or implementing Lean Manufacturing and continuous process improvement plans for more efficient processes and equipment
  • Manager-level experience identifying and implementing business improvement opportunities in manufacturing
  • 52 weeks at GS-14 level to meet time-in-grade requirement (if applicable)
  • Ability to plan, direct, and lead diverse workforce including skilled trades, engineering, quality assurance, and administrative functions

Full Job Description

This position is located at US Mint, Manufacturing Directorate- San Francisco- Plant Manager.

As a Plant Superintendent, you will be responsible for manufacturing a high volume of clad and silver proof coin sets.

These responsibilities include a state-of-the-art integrated business management system which involves all functions (policy and management, inventory, manufacturing, shipping, administration, financial management and computerized report generation).

You must meet the following requirements within 14 days of the closing date of this announcement. The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service.

One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis.

Be sure all experience is documented in your resume by indicating place of employment, job title, length of time performing the duties, and the name and contact information for the supervisor.

We must be able to verify this experience in your resume in order for you to receive credit.

Specialized Experience: For the GS-15, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service.

Specialized experience for this position includes: - Overseeing and directing multiple subordinate professional staff in various disciplines as part of regularly assigned duties while working in a high volume manufacturing facility and ensuring customer satisfaction and organizational goals are met; AND - Manager level experience promoting, monitoring and developing a safe work environment ensuring compliance with all laws relating to environment, health and safety; AND - Managing and authorizing a budget and expenditures within a manufacturing environment; AND - Recommending and or supporting and implementing Lean Manufacturing and other continuous process improvement plans that resulted in more efficient manufacturing processes and equipment; AND - Manager level experience identifying and implementing business improvement opportunities within a manufacturing environment.

In addition to the above requirements, you must meet the following time-in-grade requirement, if applicable: For the GS-15 you must have been at the GS-14 level for 52 weeks. Major Duties:

As a Plant Superintendent, you will: Perform purchasing and inventory maintenance of clad and silver coinage metals and metal forming the material and preparing into coin sets.

Plan and direct the work through various levels within the organization, the workforce is comprised of employees in various metal forming, support trades and a variety of skilled trades; engineering and plant maintenance, shipping, receiving, packaging, storage, supply, quality assurance, administrative, management analysts, budget, accounting, human resources, and police protection in and around the facility.

Provide the leadership to ensure efficient productivity and product quality, employee training, performance evaluations, rewards and commitment to quality.

Analyze, identify and define problems; plan day-to-day, short and long range strategies with the management level staff; use outstanding judgment, assemble and evaluate options; combine and integrate ideas of the staff into a cohesive set of objectives, strategies, philosophies and policies; implement, execute and monitor results.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/9/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/10/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: 26-MINT-12882769-M