SUPERVISORY GENERAL ENGINEER
United States Fleet Forces Command · usajobs.gov
PortsmouthLead / Manager
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The job in short
Supervisory general engineering.
Details
- Found
- 5 d ago · posted 2026-10-21
- Location as listed
- Portsmouth, Virginia
- Role
- Engineering Manager
- Source
- The company’s own careers site
Full description
Summary
You will serve as a SUPERVISORY GENERAL ENGINEER in the Process Engineering Branch (Code 223), Process Controls Division, Engineering and Planning Department (EPD) of NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD.
Duties
You will provide leadership and multi-disciplinary engineering expertise for process documentation and process improvement initiatives to all divisions in (EPD).
You will develop, maintain, and improve industrial processes, methods, and practices at the local and corporate levels.
You will determine requirements and develop specifications for support systems/equipment and tools as assigned.
You will assign work to subordinate personnel, ensure timely completion and quality of work.
Qualifications
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 applying engineering concepts, principles, methods, precedents, and techniques to evaluate and apply the latest developments and techniques in solving problems, identify, evaluate and recommend solutions for resolution of high visibility and complex process documentation and process improvement opportunities. Experience in developing, maintaining, and improving industrial processes, methods, and practices at the local and corporate levels. Experience assisting other shipyard departments with engineering services for the identification of requirements and improvement of industrial and business processes. Experience managing and maintaining status on various Naval Sea Systems Command programs as they relate to EPD including UIPIs, IPIs, uniform methods and standards, General Specifications for Overhaul of surface ships, etc. Experience using written and verbal communication skills in a administrative supervisory functions, such as making plans, assigning work, setting objectives, and policy and procedure development. 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.
Education
Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. OR Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org OR Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. OR Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above) OR Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least one year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily, there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions.
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