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Posted: January 7, 2026 (7 days ago)

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SUPERVISORY INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER

U.S. Pacific Fleet

Department of the Navy

Fresh

Salary

$119,630 - $155,521

per year

Closes

January 15, 2026

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 leading a team of engineers to design, maintain, and upgrade heavy lifting equipment like cranes for naval ship maintenance in Bremerton, Washington.

You'll plan projects, guide technical work, and ensure everything meets safety and operational standards for the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

It's a great fit for experienced engineers with supervisory skills who enjoy tackling complex, custom engineering challenges in a military setting.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-12 level or equivalent in professional engineering, focusing on weight handling equipment design, consultation, and procurement
  • Professional engineering background in civil, mechanical, or electrical engineering (series 0810, 0830, or 0850)
  • Supervisory experience directing technical staff, planning, organizing, and monitoring engineering projects
  • Ability to conduct field investigations to assess system capabilities and operational limits for new or replacement equipment
  • Skills in developing long-range plans, including workload projection, staffing needs, and project evaluation
  • Expertise in creating technical specifications, plans, drawings, and quality assurance for crane procurements, retrofits, and overhauls
  • Knowledge of configuration control and compliance with higher-level directives for specialized equipment

Full Job Description

You will serve as a Supervisory Interdisciplinary Engineer (0810 Civil Engineer, 0830 Mechanical Engineer or 0850 Electrical Engineer) in the Lifting and Handling Department of PSNS and IMF.

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: as a professional engineer providing technical guidance and support including design, consultation and procurement of weight handling equipment and 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 be responsible for direction, planning, organizing, controlling, monitoring, and training for the branch to provide weight handling equipment engineering support to the maintenance functional area of the Lifting and Handling Department.
  • You will direct the efforts of a technical staff in the accomplishment of engineering work in the systems and/or platforms projects assigned.
  • You will direct engineering field investigations with purpose of determining required system capabilities and operational limits for proposed new and replacement weight handling equipment.
  • You will provide long range planning necessary to ensure timely accomplishment of work, including identifying projected workload, manning needs, types and levels of skill and training required, and acceptance or rejection of special projects.
  • You will direct the application of general policy and overall in the development of plans and specifications for new crane procurements, contracted retrofits, and large crane overhauls.
  • You will direct the implementation for maintaining crane configuration control in accordance with higher level directives.
  • You will demonstrate and foster a climate within the branch for innovative and skillful improvisation due to the specialized equipment involved, and the custom installation requirements of each project.
  • You will develop detailed technical specifications, material analysis, quality assurance, and test requirements, calculations, documents, process instructions, drawing, and memoranda for the department.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 1/7/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 1/7/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12848396-26-JLW