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Port Hueneme, CAFull-time$108–191K/yrPosted 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Alteration Installation Manager leads the Alteration Installation Team within the Modernization & Installation Department at NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER. The role manages installation projects for shipboard alterations, providing technical assistance and oversight across installation phases. It also ensures compliance with technical and quality requirements, maintains quality assurance plans and workbooks, and coordinates installation completion with the NSA during CNO availabilities.
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Summary
You will serve as an Alteration Installation Manager on the Alteration Installation Team in the Modernization & Installation Department of NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER. This position is part of the Warfare Centers Personnel Demonstration Project. The NT-05 pay band encompasses positions equivalent to GS-13 and GS-14.
Duties
- You will serve as the Alteration Installation Team manager providing project management, technical assistance in the maintenance, installation, fabrication, testing and evaluation and troubleshooting of the installed alteration.
- You will develop and maintain an AIT manager Quality Assurance Plan (AMQAP) to ensure AIT compliance with specified technical and quality requirements.
- You will provide oversight of all phases of tasking related to installations specified in applicable alteration/shipboard change documents.
- You will initiate, plan, coordinate, schedule, manage, and oversee the successful accomplishment of the SC/Alteration IAW legacy FMP/NMP policy and procedures.
- You will ensure Quality Management System requirements are met, appropriate quality oversight during installation is provided and qualified/trained personnel are performing requisite technical and quality oversight responsibilities.
- You will review and approve AIT QA workbook and ensure it is available on-site for each installation IAW NSWC PHD 9090.3 (series).
- You will coordinate with the NSA to ensure satisfactory completion of the SC/Alteration installation during CNO availabilities.
- You will ensure Alteration Installation Team (AIT) is in compliance with the specified technical/quality requirements.
Qualifications
Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NT-04 (GS-11/12) pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector installing and coordinating new or modified electronic combat systems to complete tests, evaluate data and determine quality assurance of equipment modifications for the modernization of surface combat, weapon, missile ship systems. 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 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.
How You Will Be Evaluated
In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience. 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 ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTALLATION ORAL COMMUNICATION TESTING AND EVALUATION 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 qualifications 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 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. 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.
How this job compares
Set against the 22,648 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 2, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$108–191K/yr
- California median$125–190K/yr1,389 salary ranges
- US median$108–176K/yr14,121 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $149K, is 8% below the California median midpoint ($163K) — in the middle half of Project Manager salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,765 open Project Manager jobs in California and 22,648 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 19,532 postings).
- Education
- 12,358 of the 22,648 open Project Manager jobs (55%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 2, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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