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SUPERVISORY ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Department of the Navy
GS-13 Pay Grade
Base salary range: $88,520 - $115,079
Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-12. Expert-level knowledge in field.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This job involves leading a team of about 100 engineers, technicians, and support staff at a naval maintenance center in California, where you'll oversee repairs, upgrades, and readiness for ship systems to keep the fleet operational.
You'll manage resources, budgets, and projects while coordinating with other groups to solve complex issues.
It's a great fit for experienced supervisors with a background in ship engineering or maintenance who enjoy directing large teams and planning long-term improvements.
Key Requirements
- At least one year of specialized experience at GS-13 level or equivalent, overseeing workforce, projects, or programs for assessing, troubleshooting, testing, repairing, maintaining, or modernizing ships or ship systems
- Ability to organize, direct, and evaluate performance of a diverse workforce including engineers, technicians, military, and clerical personnel (approximately 100 people)
- Skills in determining resource needs, allocating personnel based on workload and technical demands, and ensuring effective use of resources
- Experience developing plans for major organizational changes impacting structure, costs, and key positions
- Proficiency in assisting with departmental budgeting and planning in support of fleet repair budgets
- Strong communication and coordination skills with external organizations to resolve issues related to funding, workload, and interrelationships
- Ability to establish goals, develop accomplishment plans, measure progress, and evaluate highly complex problems in shipboard systems
Full Job Description
You will serve as a DIVISION MANAGER in the ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT of SOUTHWEST REGIONAL MAINTENANCE CENTER.
Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.
Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Overseeing a workforce, projects, or programs that assess, troubleshoot, test, repair, maintain, or modernize ships or ships systems.
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 promote readiness and maintenance in shipboard systems and equipment by providing facilities and manpower to effect routine and complex repairs.
- You will organize, direct, and evaluate the performance of a workforce composed of approximately 100 engineers, technicians, military and clerical personnel.
- You will determine resource needs of the division, allocate personnel resources between the branches according to workload and technical demands, and account for their effective use.
- You will determine the need for and develop plans for organizational changes which have major impacts such as those involving basic departmental structure, operating costs, and key positions.
- You will assist in the planning of current and future departmental budget in support of the overall command and total fleet repair budget.
- You will communicate and coordinate efforts with external organizations involved with broad aspects of shipboard systems and to resolve major issues of funding, workload, or interrelationships.
- You will establish goals and objectives for the division, aligning with department and command goals and objectives, and its branches developing plans for accomplishment of these goals, and measure progress toward the goals.
- You will work with a variety of programs that require an evaluation of highly complex problems.
- You will assess the impact on shipboard systems when substantive developments in related programs and policies occur.
- You will provide the proper leadership direction and instruction in formulating proper responses with associated risk and options.
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