GENERAL ENGINEER
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Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NH-03 (GS-13 equivalency) 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, financial, contractual and programmatic advice, guidance, or recommendations for the design, installation or testing of composite types, coatings, and/or components for ship or submarine construction efforts.
Examples of qualifying experience may include: (1) preparation and review specifications for design, fabrication, testing, material certification, and procedural technical requirements for acceptability and certification of materials for technical adequacy, safety, and performance on submarines, undersea vehicles and/or surface ships; (2) Generating technical analysis, studies, and products supporting submarine design and integration; (3) the development or defining of performance requirements and construction standards; preparing and/or reviewing analyses and engineering recommendations; appropriately apply all applicable safety requirements, damage control criteria, and other mandatory constraints.
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=GS-PROF and IOR: 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.
You will serve as a General Engineer, managing professional engineering and scientific work.,You will be responsible for acquisition development, fielding, and sustainment of the programs assigned for logistics support, test and evaluation, and modeling and simulation.,You will be responsible for directing, managing, chairing, advising and reporting on engineering studies, projects, and experiments.,You will manage hull coating prototyping efforts and development and production transition plans for hull treatment efforts.,You will lead the development of acquisition and contracting documentation to support transitioning Research Development Test and Evaluation (RDTE) efforts to production and other efforts as assigned,You will develop long range plans for the cost, performance, and schedule of acquisition efforts within the scope of assigned areas.
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This job's listed pay is 96% above the benchmark.
Source: OECD Average annual wages, 2025
- H-1B specialty occupation: Employer petition, bachelor's degree or higher in the specialty; annual cap and lottery
- L-1 intracompany transferee: Employees of a related company abroad transferring to a US office
- O-1 extraordinary ability: Evidence of extraordinary ability in sciences, arts, education, business or athletics
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