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Naval Sea Systems Command

NAVAL ARCHITECT

$143,913 to $197,200 a year

  • Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia
  • Department of the Navy

Found by HiredNow AI on Oct 6, 2026. Subscribers saw it first.

About the role

Salary: $143,913.00 to $197,200.00 Per Year

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Major duties
You will serve as a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (CNV) Ship Design Manager (SDM) Technical Warrant Holder (TWH) in the PAE Maritime Carrier Engineering Team.
You will direct naval architecture aspects of major aircraft carrier program systems integration, providing the shipbuilder's and aircraft carrier platform perspective in the development and integration of subsystems, components, and products.
You will exercise technical authority guidance and direction over project team engineers.
You will be responsible for articulating the scope and execution of engineering support from the Aircraft Carrier Engineering Team for the Program Executive Office (PE) Carriers and Aircraft Carrier Type Commanders.
You will establish, monitor, and approve technical standards, tools, and processes in conformance to higher authority policy, requirements, architecture and standards.

Qualifications

Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower grade level or pay band, NH-03 (GS-13 Equivalent), in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional engineer or naval architect managing systems engineering projects to support the design, development, construction or maintenance and modernization of ships or ship 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.

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