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670A Health Services Maintenance Technician

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Overview

A Health Services Maintenance Technician manages personnel and organizations that install, operate, maintain, and repair optical, dental, medical diagnostic, and therapeutic equipment. The technician determines repair and replacement requirements, supervises diagnostic testing, inspects equipment, estimates repair costs, and makes repair or replacement recommendations.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Medical equipment fault isolation with diagnostic instruments
  • Repair cost estimation and replacement recommendations
  • Medical equipment installation and facility layout planning
  • Repair workload allocation and final inspections

Civilian Career Paths

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Medical Equipment Repairers

Your experience directing medical equipment installation, maintenance, fault isolation, and repair transfers directly to biomedical equipment service work.

How to prepare: Build an equipment-specific record of your military training and repair experience for employers to assess against their device inventory. Entry typically requires an associate’s degree or certificate in biomedical technology or a related field, but relevant military experience may qualify you without additional education.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test or calibrate components or equipment, following manufacturers' manuals and troubleshooting techniques, using hand tools, power tools, or measuring devices.
  • Inspect, test, or troubleshoot malfunctioning medical or related equipment, following manufacturers' specifications and using test and analysis instruments.
  • Keep records of maintenance, repair, and required updates of equipment.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Inventory control system software

Medical Equipment Maintenance Supervisor

Your responsibility for medical equipment maintenance teams, workload distribution, resource allocation, and final inspections closely matches repair-shop supervision.

How to prepare: Prepare a work sample showing how you allocated a medical equipment repair workload, estimated repair costs, and verified completed work.

What the civilian work involves
  • Inspect, test, and measure completed work, using devices such as hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements.
  • Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Project

Training & Development

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Career Growth

  • Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (CMRP)

    Demonstrate maintenance and reliability knowledge relevant to supervising medical equipment maintenance operations.

    Eligibility and preparation: No education or work-experience minimum; applicants must not have sat for the exam within the preceding six months.

    For: Medical Equipment Maintenance Supervisor

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (6 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 670A Health Services Maintenance Technician

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 670A (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank warrant_officer, authority codeType warrant_officer

    Supports: Medical equipment fault isolation with diagnostic instruments, Repair cost estimation and replacement recommendations, Medical equipment installation and facility layout planning, Repair workload allocation and final inspections, Medical Equipment Repairers (O*NET 49-9062.00), Medical Equipment Maintenance Supervisor (O*NET 49-1011.00)

  2. O*NET: Medical Equipment Repairers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Medical Equipment Repairers (O*NET 49-9062.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: medical equipment repairers

    [3] How to Become One; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Medical Equipment Repairers (O*NET 49-9062.00)

  4. O*NET: First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Medical Equipment Maintenance Supervisor (O*NET 49-1011.00)

  5. COOL credential mapping: Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (CMRP)

    [5] 670A cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (CMRP)

  6. Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals: CMRP eligibility

    [6] Eligibility; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (CMRP)

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