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SHIPBUILDING SPECIALIST

United States Fleet Forces Command

Department of the Navy

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Salary

$76,463 - $99,404

per year

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GS-11 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $62,107 - $80,737

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-10. Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 years graduate study.

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

Job Description

Summary

This job involves planning, overseeing, and troubleshooting ship maintenance and repair projects for the U.S.

Navy, ensuring everything runs on time and meets quality standards while working with teams and contractors. It's based in Bahrain and focuses on supporting naval operations in the region.

A good fit would be someone with hands-on experience in shipbuilding or engineering who enjoys solving technical problems and coordinating with multiple groups.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-11 level or equivalent in ship maintenance, repair, or building
  • Ability to recommend solutions for technical problems in ship systems
  • Skills in developing work specifications, reports, and statements of work for ship projects
  • Experience reviewing and enforcing technical requirements, contracts, and procedures
  • Providing oversight to ensure projects meet schedules, specifications, and quality standards
  • Performing long-range planning, estimating, and technical analysis of proposals
  • Coordinating with commands, customers, contractors, and agencies as a liaison and negotiator

Full Job Description

You will serve as a SHIPBUILDING SPECIALIST in the Waterfront Operations Department Code B300 of FW DEPLOYED REG MAINT CTR DET BAHRAIN Bahrain.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must include: 1) Recommending alternatives to assist in solving technical problems associated with all facets of ship maintenance.

2) Developing work specifications, detailed reports and statements of work to support the planning of shipbuilding, ship repair, and modernization availabilities.

3) Reviewing and invoking technical requirements to ensure compliance with appropriate shipbuilding procedures, contracts and specifications during the planning and execution stage.

4) Providing oversight of shipboard production work to ensure projects are completed according to schedule, work specification and quality.

NOTE: This information must be supported in your resume to be considered for the position.

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 https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1100/general-business-and-industry-series-1101b/ 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 perform long range planning, estimating and accomplishing technical analysis of customer and contractor proposals as well as quick response waterfront support.
  • You will coordinate ship system overhauls to ensure completion within the production schedule.
  • You will establish program objectives, requirements, schedules and courses of action required to meet mission requirements and attain production objectives.
  • You will serve as primary point of contact, liaison, and negotiator between command, customers, and other government agencies to ensure execution of projects.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/18/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/18/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12885663-26-ABI