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CHIEF ENGINEER, PAE FOR SHORE INFRASTRUCTURE
Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command · Posted 46 days ago
Hybrid Washington Navy Yard, DC $186K – $228K Apply by Aug 14, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ EngineeringTransportation
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This position serves as the Chief Engineer and Senior Technical Authority for the Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Shore Infrastructure (PAE SI) at the Washington Navy Yard. Operating with full technical independence, the incumbent oversees an $11B+ annual portfolio (including $8B MILCON and $3B SRM programs). Established under the FY26 NDAA acquisition reforms, the role provides final engineering authority and strategic counsel to accelerate critical shore capabilities to the Fleet.
What You'll Do
- →You will serve as a national technical authority on engineering for DON/DoW shore infrastructure.
- →You will act as the PAE's primary advisor on all shore infrastructure engineering matters.
- →You will develop and recommend technical strategies for the entire Navy infrastructure portfolio.
- →You will evaluate trade-offs among cost, schedule, and performance to guide decisions.
- →You will inform programmatic and resource choices to accelerate capability delivery to the Fleet.
Requirements
- ✓Applicants must meet at least one of the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: For Professional Engineering Series: A.
- ✓Degree: Engineering.
- ✓Successful completion of a bachelor's or higher engineering degree from an accredited college or university.
- ✓Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. -or- B.
- ✓Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering.
- ✓The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: (I) Professional registration or licensure -- 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.
- ✓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.
- ✓(The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.)
Personality Fit
Job ID: 822851f0-4a41-4009-9f97-7367fb97b23a
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