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SUPERVISORY NUCLEAR ENGINEER

U.S. Pacific Fleet

Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Oahu, HIFull-time$131–171K/yrPosted today

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Compensation
$131–171K/yr
Location
Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Oahu, HI
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Engineer Intern, EIT, PE, FE, Or Equivalent Path, required

Job overview

The Supervisory Nuclear Engineer leads the Control Engineering Division at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility. The role oversees engineering surveillance and technical coordination for shipyard work involving naval nuclear primary plant control systems, evaluates anomalies and corrective actions, and serves as the shipyard’s technical representative on nuclear control engineering matters. It also exercises administrative and technical supervision over engineers and coordinates safety-related reviews with Naval Reactors, ship’s force, and executive management.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Microelectronics Troubleshooting, requiredMicroprocessor Troubleshooting, requiredDigital and Analog Equipment Troubleshooting, requiredFacilities Electrical Work, requiredElectrical Power Distribution, requiredNuclear Engineering, requiredMetallurgy, requiredNuclear Physics, requiredFluid Flow, requiredReactor Theory, requiredNuclear Chemistry, requiredNaval Vessel Design, requiredNaval Vessel Construction, requiredNaval Vessel Operation, requiredElectrical Engineering, requiredMechanical Engineering, requiredChemical Engineering, required

Qualifications

One Year Specialized Experience, requiredProfessional Engineering Degree or Equivalent Path, requiredEngineer Intern, EIT, PE, FE, or Equivalent Path, required

Benefits

Relocation Assistance

Full job description

Summary

You will serve as a SUPERVISORY NUCLEAR ENGINEER in the CONTROL ENGINEERING DIVISION, NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND PLANNING DEPARTMENT (C2300) of PEARL HARBOR NSY AND IMF.

Duties

  • You will exercise full administrative and technical supervisory authority over subordinate supervisory engineers, branch leads, and a multidisciplinary team of professional nuclear, electrical, and systems engineers.
  • You will establish work schedules, project milestones, and engineering priorities based on shipyard overhaul schedules, operational vessel availabilities, and fleet taskings.
  • You will evaluate subordinate work performance, provide formal and informal performance ratings, and gives counsel, advice, and instructions on both technical and administrative matters.
  • You will interview candidates for vacancies, recommend appointments, promotions, reassignments, details, and disciplinary measures, and resolve employee grievances and serious operational complaints.
  • You will actively support and enforce federal, Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, and COMPACFLT Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) policies and Merit System Principles.
  • You will direct comprehensive engineering surveillance and technical coordination of all shipyard operations involving naval nuclear primary plant control systems and associated equipment across all active availabilities.
  • You will systematically review daily and shift reports from engineering surveillance personnel maintaining round-the- clock technical oversight of shipyard nuclear production work.
  • You will evaluate anomalies, determine root causes of operational defects or equipment deviations, and verify that corrective actions maintain complete reactor plant safety and radiological integrity.
  • You will ensure all engineering surveillance activities strictly comply with technical work documents, radiological safety standards, NAVSEA directives, and Naval Reactors technical manuals.
  • You will retain final approving authority as Division Head, while delegating approval authority to subordinate Branch Heads and Senior Engineers for technical work documents, operating procedures, and evaluations requiring divisional concurrence.
  • You will prepare and submit authoritative technical evaluations and requests for formal deviation from established guides and military specifications when necessitated by unique shipyard overhaul conditions.
  • You will serve as the primary shipyard technical consultant and representative on nuclear control engineering matters during high-level conferences, design reviews, and technical discussions with all representatives.
  • You will secure formal review, technical concurrence, and mutual agreement between Naval Reactors Representative's Office , Ship's Force, and executive management involving ship safety, reactor plant safety, or shared shipboard operations.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional engineer demonstrating the following: proficiency in troubleshooting microelectronics, microprocessors, digital/analog equipment, facilities electrical work and electrical power distribution associated with operation of nuclear reactor plant equipment, controllers, breakers and fuses; a highly advanced knowledge of the principles of nuclear engineering including metallurgy, nuclear physics, electrical, fluid flow, reactor theory and chemistry as they apply to naval nuclear vessel design, construction and operation; expertise in his/her field and well versed in all fields of engineering, including electrical, mechanical, nuclear and chemical. 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.

Education

Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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 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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org OR 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 The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html. OR Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above) OR 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 one 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. How You Will Be Evaluated

When the application process is complete, we will review your resume to ensure you meet the hiring eligibility and qualification requirements listed in this announcement. You will be rated based on the information provided in your resume and application package, along with your supporting documentation to determine your ability to demonstrate the following competencies: DEVELOPING OTHERS INFLUENCING/NEGOTIATING MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES NUCLEAR ENGINEERING ORAL COMMUNICATION WRITTEN COMMUNICATION This recruitment will utilize the following technical assessment tools: Structured Resume Review and Structured Interview. You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in your resume as that information may be taken into consideration during the selection process. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documentation. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment. All eligibility, qualifications, and time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Other Information

This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program. Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments. During the application process you will have the ability to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions in the local commuting area. Depending on the hiring organization and the position being filled, job requirements (e.g., security clearance, travel, drug testing, financial disclosure filing, bargaining unit status, etc.) may vary. Other hiring managers filling similar positions may offer relocation expense reimbursement and/or may offer recruitment incentives for new employees, depending on funding availability and in accordance with policy. If you opt-in and are referred on a certificate, your resume will be available to other hiring managers for 180-days from the date the job announcement closes. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions. Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf This position is subject to work an uncommon tour, including nights, weekends, and holidays to meet mission requirements. Overtime or night differential pay and/or unusual duty hours may be required. PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation. ICTAP Applicants: To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority as an ICTAP candidate, displaced Federal employees must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a rating in the highly qualified category (score 85) or higher. ICTAP candidates must provide copies of all of the following documentation at the time of application:?1) agency notice; 2) most recent performance appraisal; and 3) most recent SF-50 or notification of personnel action that includes position, grade level, and duty location. Applicants who do not provide this documentation will not receive consideration as an ICTAP candidate. For more information about ICTAP eligibility please review the following link: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/federal-employees/career-transition/ Military Spouse Preference applicants will be placed at the highest grade for which they have applied and are determined Best Qualified (BQ). A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position. Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees. A relocation incentive is generally a single payment intended to offset some of the relocation costs experienced by the selectee. A relocation incentive may be authorized.

How this job compares

Set against the 613 open Nuclear Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$131–171K/yr
  • US median$99–153K/yr501 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $151K, is 21% above the US median midpoint ($125K) — in the top quarter of Nuclear Engineer salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 613 open Nuclear Engineer jobs across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Nuclear Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 546 postings).
Education
437 of the 613 open Nuclear Engineer jobs (71%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.

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