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PROGRAM MANAGER

Naval Air Systems Command

Department of the Navy

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Salary

$121,785 - $163,062

per year

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April 13, 2026More Navy jobs →

GS-12 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $74,441 - $96,770

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-11. Advanced degree + significant experience.

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

Job Description

Summary

This job involves overseeing the planning, budgeting, and delivery of support equipment for naval aircraft systems, ensuring everything from development to fielding runs smoothly.

You'll coordinate with teams, contractors, and military representatives to meet schedules and objectives.

It's a great fit for someone with experience managing complex projects in defense or engineering, who enjoys strategic decision-making and resource allocation.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-12 level or equivalent in planning, budgeting, and managing support equipment development, acquisition, production, and delivery
  • Ability to coordinate and interface with competencies, system commands, fleet representatives, and contractors for program execution
  • Skill in making major program recommendations on direction, resources, policies, and schedules
  • Proficiency in managing project schedules and acquisitions to ensure timely development, testing, and fielding
  • Experience in scheduling and conducting program reviews for customers, sponsors, and management
  • Capability to develop, coordinate, and monitor programs aligned with delivery schedules and objectives
  • Expertise in evaluating impacts of new objectives, probabilities, and acquisition strategies, including funding justification and expenditure monitoring

Full Job Description

You will serve as a PROGRAM MANAGER in the SUPPORT EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENT, SE & ALRE GROUP of NAVAIRWARCENADLKE.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 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) Planning, budgeting and managing across all system areas for identification, development, acquisition, production, and delivery of all required Support Equipment; 2) Coordinating and interfacing with appropriate competencies, system commands, fleet representatives, and contractors to assure proper execution; 3) Making major program recommendations concerning program direction, resources, policies, and schedules; and 4) Managing all project schedules and acquisitions to ensure all projects are developed, tested and fielded as planned.

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 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 schedule and conduct program reviews for customers, sponsors, and higher management.
  • You will develop, coordinate, consolidate and monitor programs, which are consistent with delivery schedules and objectives.
  • You will evaluate the comprehensive impact or new or revised objectives, probabilities and acquisition strategies.
  • You will solicit, justify and control all funding for assigned programs and monitor all work and funding expenditures.
  • You will measure progress toward, and determine the soundness of objectives in established programs, and develop resource requirements for new programs.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 4/2/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 4/2/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12923703-26-VBH