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SUPERVISORY GENERAL ENGINEER

STRATEGIC SYSTEMS PROGRAMS (SSP)

Department of the Navy

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$90,173 - $139,398

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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 is for a lead engineer in the Navy's Strategic Systems Programs, where you'll oversee a team handling maintenance, repairs, and upgrades for launch support projects at Cape Canaveral.

You'll manage staff, budgets, and timelines while representing the Navy in technical discussions and ensuring projects stay on track with the latest engineering innovations.

It's a great fit for experienced engineers who enjoy leading teams and solving complex technical problems in a high-stakes government environment.

Key Requirements

  • One or more years of experience at GS-11 or equivalent level in federal or private sector
  • Engineering skills in developing plans, documentation, and specifications for maintenance, repairs, or modernization projects
  • Experience acting as a technical representative in meetings, especially for launch support requirements
  • Supervisory experience managing personnel, workloads, performance monitoring, and employee development
  • Ability to manage resources including project funding, budgeting, and task assignments
  • Expertise in reviewing and improving maintenance operations using top-level engineering knowledge
  • Strong communication skills for articulating assignments, milestones, and program issues to teams

Full Job Description

This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer.

Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer.

Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.

Your resume must demonstrate one or more years of experience at the GS-11 or NH-II pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Utilizing engineering skills in developing engineering plans, documentation, or specifications to facilitate the execution of various types of support maintenance, repairs, or modernization of projects, while acting as a representative for the Navy for technical meetings regarding launch support requirements.

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 work closely with Flight Test Instrumentation Branch Head and Engineering Management to manage, support, develop, guide, and direct personnel to complete all tasks efficiently and on-time
  • You will monitor work performance and develop employees through training and work assignments and will establish expectations, deadlines, and time frames for completion
  • You will articulate and communicate to staff and team members the assignments, projects, problems to be solved, actionable events, milestones, and program issues under review
  • You will identify, distribute and balance workload tasks among employees in accordance with established work flow, skill level and occupational specialization
  • You will assist in managing branch resources to include project funding and budgeting, employee availability and tasking assignments, as well as other resources as required
  • You will review/revise existing maintenance tasks and interact with other personnel to develop improved maintenance operations based on top-level engineering expertise
  • You will keep management apprised on the status of projects and make recommendations for changes as needed
  • You will provide direction and strategies when distributing infrastructure tasks to facility engineers, program analysts, logistics and supply support personnel, schedulers, and facility specialists, establishing processes for changes.
  • You will provide program administration and supervise operations to tailor approaches and optimize planning which support systems engineering projects
  • You will establish processes to ensure initiatives covering the latest engineering technological advances as well as state-of-the-art applications pertinent to development of new products or theories are implemented within assigned areas
  • You will assist, manage, and/or complete other duties as assigned

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/4/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/4/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: DE-12901287-26-JRG