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Naval Sea Systems Command

Department of the Navy

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$87,061 - $190,627

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GS-11/12 Pay Grade(Career Ladder)

Entry salary: $62,107 | Full performance (GS-12): up to $96,770

Career ladder: Start at GS-11 and advance to GS-12 with experience.

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 branch manager overseeing teams that work on naval missile systems, including planning resources, managing budgets, and guiding technical projects to support the U.S.

Navy's ship weapons. It involves leading people, ensuring compliance with rules, and improving processes to meet mission goals efficiently.

A good fit would be someone with experience in defense or engineering management who enjoys leading teams and handling financial and operational challenges in a high-stakes environment.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at NT-04 (GS-11/12 equivalent) for NT-05 level, including analyzing resource needs, budget execution, and resolving financial issues for ship weapon systems
  • For NT-04 level, one year of experience at NT-03 (GS-09/10 equivalent) facilitating command objectives and resource execution for ship weapon projects in compliance with budgets
  • Strong skills in program planning, technical direction, and personnel management for a branch focused on missile systems
  • Experience managing budgets, resources, and compliance with regulations, policies, and procedures
  • Ability to lead improvements in work processes to boost productivity and support fleet products
  • Proficiency in employee management, including training, performance evaluation, union relations, and timekeeping
  • Knowledge of naval weapon systems such as Standard Missile, Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM), Tomahawk, and MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS)

Full Job Description

You will serve as a BRANCH MANAGER in the SURFACE LAUNCH MISSILE DIVISION (E80), SENSORS WEAPONS & LAUNCHERS DEPARTMENT of NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER, located in Seal Beach, CA.

For the NT-05: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NT-04 (GS-11/12 equivalency) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Analyzing and evaluating resource requirements to develop and monitor budget execution and resolve financial planning issues ensuring the efficiency of ship weapon systems.

For the NT-04: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NT-03 (GS-09/10 equivalency) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Facilitating command objectives and resource execution to support ship weapon system projects in compliance with budget 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 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 program resource and execution guidance, oversight and responsibility, planning, technical direction, and personnel management for the assigned branch.
  • You will maintain responsibility and accountability for resources, adhering to established regulations, guidance, policy and procedures in the execution of the mission of the assigned division.
  • You will understand and facilitate management goals and command objectives, and develop improvements or design new work processes and procedures to improve productivity and value added from fleet products.
  • You will adjust work operations to meet emergency or changing program or production requirements utilizing available resources with minimum risk to the quality of work accomplished and the negative effect to resources.
  • You will be responsible for management of union relationships, overall Branch customer satisfaction, resource budgeting and execution, and management of compliance items within the Branch.
  • You will manage positions and pay, selection and assignment of employees, employee training and development, management-employee communications, evaluation on performance, utilization of incentives, and administration on leave and timekeeping.
  • You will provide technical leadership and guidance to personnel conducting the processes or planning associated with either Standard Missile, Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM), Tomahawk, and MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) workload.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/20/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/20/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12913647-26-CJM