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PRINCIPAL TECHNICAL MANAGER FOR SIGNATURES DEPARTMENT
Naval Sea Systems Command · Posted 1 days ago
Hybrid Naval Surface Warfare Center, MD $195K – $210K Apply by Jun 30, 2026 General Engineering ENTJINTJINTPISTJ Education
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You will serve as Principal Technical Manager for the Signatures Department within the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD).
What You'll Do
- →You will serve as the expert authority on signatures for surface ships, including aircraft carriers, unmanned vehicles, combatant craft, and submarine platforms.
- →You will identify future signature related capabilities in ships, submarines, unmanned platforms, maritime systems, and aircraft carriers and ensure that high-quality technical work is executed.
- →You will recommend new scientific and technical programs in signatures, signature mitigation, and management to Navy leadership and provide expert consultation to government, academia, and industry.
- →You will coordinate and integrate technical efforts in signature management with internal Division experts, other government agencies (e.g., Office of Naval Research, NAVSEA, Program Executive Offices), industry partners and universities.
- →You will drive major technological advancements in the Navy's ship and ship systems concepts, designs, and technology integrations in the areas of signatures and signature management.
Requirements
- ✓Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: For 0801 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.) For 1301-General Physical Science Seriesa.
- ✓A degree in physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics; -or- b.
- ✓Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education; An advanced degree of Master's or Ph.D. in one of the educational fields listed above is highly desirable.
Personality Fit
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