SUPERVISORY DISTINGUISHED ENGINEER

Naval Sea Systems Command; Port Hueneme (CA); Remote; USD 198,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Naval Sea Systems Command in Port Hueneme, CA, seeks a Deputy Technical Director to lead research, development, transition, and in-service engineering for surface warfare and combat systems.

You will provide executive leadership and strategic advice to NAVSEA and Navy leaders on priorities, technology investment, and fleet readiness; a professional engineering degree and licensure are required.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree required with ABET accreditation or equivalent.
• Professional registration/licensure (EI/EIT/PE) or passing FE exam is acceptable.
• Combination of education and experience demonstrating engineering knowledge and practical application.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership and strategic advice to NAVSEA and Navy leaders on research priorities and technology investment.
• Lead engineering teams across NAVSEA, directing complex technical and strategic projects for surface warfare and combat systems.
• Oversee in-service engineering, product support, and fleet readiness initiatives.

Skills

Executive leadership

Strategic advisory

Engineering leadership

Education

Engineering degree (ABET-accredited)

Professional licensure (EI/EIT/PE)

Job description

• Department: Department of the Navy
• Hiring Path: Disability
• Number of Openings: 1
• Security Clearance: Sensitive Compartmented Information

You will serve as Deputy Technical Director of NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER. You will serve as the preeminent technical leader and strategic authority in the identification, development, transition, in-service engineering, and comprehensive product support of emerging and legacy technologies for surface warfare and combat systems.

Key Responsibilities

You will provide executive leadership and senior technical and strategic advice to command, NAVSEA, Navy, and Department of War leaders on research priorities, technology investment, fleet readiness, and complex engineering issues.

Requirements & Education

Applicants must meet 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.

To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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- 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.

For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions; or (II) Written Test -- 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; or (III) Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A.

The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A; or (IV) Related curriculum -- 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 1 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.) An advanced degree of Master's or Ph.D. in one of the educational fields listed above is highly desirable.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Naval Sea Systems Command, Department of the Navy.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $198349 – $209600/yr.

Is this position remote or telework eligible?

This position is eligible for telework.

What security clearance is required?

This position requires a Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-11-24.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Disability' hiring path.