SUPERVISORY INTERDISCIPLINARY

United States Fleet Forces Command; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

The United States Fleet Forces Command seeks an Environmental Engineer/Physical Scientist/Community Planner/Scientific Resources Manager to lead the Environmental Readiness within Fleet Installations and Environment Division COMMANDER US FLEET FORCES COMMAND.

The role emphasizes supervision, workload management, and performance evaluation for a multidisciplinary team of senior GS-13/14 personnel, with emphasis on planning, engineering, and scientific workflows in a federal setting.

Qualifications

• Basic education requirements must be met at time of application with transcripts provided.
• Degrees in community planning or related fields must include planning process coursework and related elements.
• Engineering/physical science background with required calculus and engineering science courses is acceptable.
• Professional licensure or engineering registration is considered for qualification.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative and technical supervision for a multidisciplinary team of senior personnel (GS-13/14).
• Oversee workload management, performance evaluation, and branch operations within Environmental Readiness.
• Ensure compliance with OPM qualification standards and accompanying documentation.

Education

Community planning degree or related field

Engineering or physical science background with ABET-compliant requirements

Federal qualifications: Professional Engineer registration or FE exam; ABET accreditation knowledge

Job description

• Hiring Agency: United States Fleet Forces Command

You will serve as an Environmental Engineer/Physical Scientist/Community Planner/Scientific Resources Manager in the Environmental Readiness within Fleet Installations and Environment Division COMMANDER US FLEET FORCES COMMAND.

Key Responsibilities

You will serve as Branch Head and will be primarily responsible for providing administrative and technical supervision, workload management, and performance evaluation for a multidisciplinary team of senior GS-13/14 personnel.

Requirements & Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: A BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENT FOR THIS POSITION MUST BE MET AT TIME OF APPLICATION. A transcript must be submitted with your application in order to verify the basic education requirements for this position. See Required Documents for additional information.

Applicants must meet the following Basic Requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: 0020: 1.

Degree: community planning; or related field such as urban affairs, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, sociology, geography, economics, political science, or public administration that included at least 12 semester hours in the planning process, socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, urban and regional economic analysis, and development finance.

Note: Applicants with degrees in related fields, such as those listed above, who do not have the 12 semester hours of specified course work must have had at least 1 year of work experience in community planning acquired under the supervision and guidance of a community planner. OR 2.

Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in one of the above disciplines, or a combination of related courses totaling at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the above disciplines of which at least 12 semester hours were in the planning process, and socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, plus appropriate experience or additional education. 0401: 1.

Degree: biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. OR 2. Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. 0819: 1. Degree: Engineering.

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.

OR 2. 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: 1.

Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, 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. 2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 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.

3. 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. 4.

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.) 1301: 1.

Degree: 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 2. 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.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with United States Fleet Forces Command, Department of the Navy.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $150144 – $195190/yr.

Is this position remote or telework eligible?

This position is eligible for telework.

What security clearance is required?

This position requires a Secret security clearance.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-11-02.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.