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SUPERVISORY QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST

United States Fleet Forces Command

Department of the Navy

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$106,437 - $138,370

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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 to oversee quality checks and audits for submarine maintenance and repairs at a naval facility in Georgia, ensuring everything meets safety and efficiency standards.

It focuses on spotting problems in mechanical and electrical systems, validating critical work like nuclear components, and guiding long-term fixes.

A good fit would be someone with experience in quality assurance in technical fields, especially military or engineering, who enjoys supervising teams and solving complex issues.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-12 level or equivalent in quality assurance audits, surveillances, and trend analysis
  • Knowledge of submarine maintenance, including mechanical/electrical trades, radiological controls, and non-destructive testing (NDT)
  • Experience overseeing work plans, managing subordinates, and achieving organizational goals
  • Skills in analyzing complex QA problems, providing technical solutions, and maintaining corrective action programs
  • Familiarity with validating quality of critical components like SUBSAFE, nuclear systems, and pressure vessels
  • Ability to conduct surveillances on processes such as nuclear/non-nuclear maintenance, crane safety, and radiological controls

Full Job Description

You will serve as a SUPERVISORY QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST in the QUALITY MANAGEMENT OFFICE DEPUTY (CODE 131) of TRIREFFAC KINGS BAY.

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: Experience conducting Quality Assurance audits, surveillances, and critique findings, analysis of deficiency trends, providing status of outstanding actions, schedules of upcoming audits and evaluations in accordance with the Joint Fleet Maintenance Manual (JFMM) to ensure TRIREFFAC performs mission related functions efficiently and effectively.

Experience utilizing knowledge of quality assurance/submarine to perform maintenance and repair in the mechanical or electrical trades including submarine maintenance, radiological control compliance, lifting and handling operations, materials conformance, non-destructive testing (NDT), certification of critical work records, and chemical and mechanical testing and analysis.

Experience overseeing revision of long-range work plans developed by subordinate supervisors and managers managing the overall work to enhance achieving established goals and objectives.

Experience in applying various methods and techniques in analyzing and investigating complex QA problems, providing solutions, technical advice and maintaining a corrective action program.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series 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 plan and execute a program to ensure surveillances, audits, evaluations and assessments are accomplished to determine the adequacy of Engineering and Planning.
  • You will utilize advanced troubleshooting and analysis techniques to identify technical problems through the collection, evaluation, analysis, and dissemination of hull, mechanical, and electrical systems data.
  • You will assist departments in developing solutions to submarine hull, mechanical, and electrical systems problems.
  • You will plan and execute a program to validate the quality of critical work and components (SUBSAFE, Level I, DSS/SOC, nuclear, high-pressure piping and pressure vessels, pressure hull structure).
  • You will oversee execution of chemical and mechanical testing and analysis of metals and materials.
  • You will work closely with the department heads responsible to ensure that proper long-term corrective actions are assigned, completed, and eventually validated.
  • You will review/approve audit and evaluation reports and documents, either prepared by the Quality Assurance Organization or others, for technical and QA aspects.
  • You will conduct surveillances of various processes to include nuclear and non-nuclear maintenance, paint and preservation, crane safety, radiological controls, etc.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/27/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/27/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12917485-26-MAR