QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST (SHIPBUILDING)
Naval Sea Systems Command
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SHIPBUILDING SPECIALIST
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Department of the Navy
Location
Salary
$76,463 - $99,404
per year
Type
Full-Time
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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 and overseeing repairs, upgrades, and maintenance for Navy ships stationed in Singapore, ensuring everything from materials and costs to safety and schedules is handled efficiently.
A good fit would be someone with hands-on experience in shipbuilding or naval engineering who enjoys detailed project planning and working in a team to keep vessels operational.
It's ideal for those who thrive in high-stakes, technical environments abroad.
Key Requirements
- At least one year of specialized experience at GS-11 level or equivalent in ship repair planning, estimating, and monitoring
- Proficiency in preparing work specifications, including material sourcing, evaluations, and surveillance for vessel repairs and overhauls
- Skills in developing cost estimates for labor, supervision, equipment, and materials, plus budgeting and resource planning
- Ability to conduct ship inspections to assess material condition, systems, and work requirements
- Experience creating integrated availability plans, production sequences, risk-based schedules, and capacity assessments
- Knowledge of identifying hazardous materials and waste in planning documents
Full Job Description
You will serve as a SHIPBUILDING SPECIALIST in the WATERFRONT OPERATIONS, SRF SINGAPORE DETACHMENT ofSRF DETACHMENT SINGAPORE .
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 demonstrate the following: Experience performing detailed work specification planning to include estimating and material sourcing, specification preparation, evaluations, surveillance, and monitoring of all repairs, overhauls, alterations and conversions of surface combatant vessels and other vessels.
Experience preparing labor, supervision, equipment and material cost estimates, including budgeting, purchasing and resource planning.
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/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 provide pre-award technical input to contracting officials.
- You will accomplish ship inspections to determine ship's material condition and the interrelationship of systems and component parts to validate work candidates and ensure inclusion of all work requirements.
- You will develop integrated availability plans, production sequences, and risk-based schedules; assess yard capacity and recommend mitigation strategies to meet milestones.
- You will identify hazardous material required by the planning documents and possible hazardous waste to be generated during the availability.
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