Career fields
NAVSEA’s more than 70,000 civilian professionals support the U.S. Navy’s mission every day. With opportunities across a wide range of career fields, you can help ensure our Sailors are equipped to patrol the seas, protect our nation and return home safely.
Our acquisition and contract specialists do the crucial legwork of building our U.S. Navy. You will manage the buying and contracts throughout design, manufacture, service and disposal of shipbuilding and combat system programs. You will plan strategically for contract specifications and quality assurance, analyze prices and costs of contracts while negotiating U.S. Navy interests and make sure the Navy and Department of War have the information needed to make cost-conscious decisions.
What kind of jobs are available?
- Contract specialists
- Financial management analysts
- Logistics management specialists
Building and maintaining the Navy fleet takes more than blueprints and elbow grease. Administrative and professional employees are essential to NAVSEA’s success. You will manage buying raw materials and supplies, identify financial errors or unusual patterns, use cost-control techniques, handle staff and employee responsibilities and legal issues and look after the safety and security of NAVSEA personnel.
What kind of jobs are available?
- Administrative officer
- Human resource specialist
- Inspector general
- Lawyer
- Logistician
- Public affairs specialist
- Safety
Business and financial management professionals make invaluable contributions to the NAVSEA team. You will plan and execute the sales of surface ships, submarines, boats and other defense systems to foreign militaries; analyze long- and short-range trends by identifying anomalies and variances in receipts and expenditures; and apply cost-control techniques in support of items such as large-scale repair, dry docking and research and development.
What kind of jobs are available?
- Program manager
- Program analyst
- Management analyst
- Financial analyst
Showcase your skills by working on the most advanced systems in the world. You can design, develop, maintain, repair, modernize and integrate technology for U.S. Navy surface ships, submarines and unmanned vessels. NAVSEA hires engineers in many fields to support and lead projects involving high-tech ships and submarines, as well as advanced combat and weapons systems.
What kind of jobs are available?
- Aerospace engineering
- Mechanical engineering
- Chemical engineering
- Computer engineering
- Electrical engineering
- Naval architecture
- Nuclear engineering
Few careers are more prestigious than developing, managing and protecting the IT systems that support the U.S. Navy. NAVSEA information technology and cybersecurity professionals are among the best in their fields. You will have the opportunity to advance your training in your area of expertise, and NAVSEA will support your pursuit of further undergraduate or graduate degrees.
What kind of jobs are available?
- Database administrator
- IT customer support analyst
- IT project manager
- IT security officer
- IT specialist
- Software analyst
NAVSEA scientists and mathematicians work with cutting-edge technologies and equipment, surrounded by some of the brightest minds the country has to offer. NAVSEA hires scientists in many fields to support the construction and maintenance of ships and combat systems. You will develop test planning documents, coordinate data and collection requirements, write plans for review and input and conduct post-event analysis and data reduction. You will apply analytical methods to improve products and processes.
What kind of jobs are available?
- Chemists
- Computer scientists
- Physicists
- Physiologists
- Engineering psychologists
- Research psychologists
- General physical scientists
- Mathematicians
- Operations researchers
Our skilled trades workers do the hands-on work that builds and maintains our ships and combat systems. Whether it is welding paneling for a new submarine or operating the cranes that load carriers, we always need talented trade workers who get the job done safely and efficiently. If you are trained in skilled trades and manual labor, you have an incredible opportunity to take your vocation and career to the next level with NAVSEA. You will work on naval ships and systems unavailable to the public and receiving the finest hands-on training available.
What kind of jobs are available?
- Air conditioning equipment mechanic
- Boilermaker
- Crane operator
- Electrician
- Electronics mechanic
- Electroplater
- Engine and pump operator
- Equipment mechanic
- Fabric worker
- Heavy mobile equipment mechanic
- Insulator
- Machinist
- Marine machinery mechanic
- Painter
- Pipefitter
- Rigger
- Scaffold builder
- Sheet metal mechanic
- Ship fitter
- Shipwright
- Small craft & marine equipment operator
- Tool room mechanic
- Welder
- Woodworker
Several NAVSEA locations offer apprenticeships in these career fields, combining classroom instruction with hands-on training to sharpen your skills and lay the foundation for a life-long career.