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948D Electronic Missile Systems Maintenance Warrant Officer

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Overview

An Electronic Missile Systems Maintenance Warrant Officer trains and develops electronics maintenance personnel and supervisors at all levels. They serve as principal technical advisors on electronics maintenance and train units to achieve equipment operational readiness objectives.

Core Skills

  • Training electronics maintainers and maintenance supervisors
  • Advising commanders on electronics maintenance readiness

Civilian Career Paths

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First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

Technical leadership of electronics maintenance teams and development of maintainers and supervisors transfer directly to electronics repair supervision.

How to prepare: Build a work portfolio showing how you developed maintenance personnel and supported equipment readiness, tailored to electronics repair supervisor openings.

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

Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

Electronics maintenance expertise and training personnel to achieve equipment readiness provide a foundation for commercial and industrial electronics repair.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on industrial electronics troubleshooting lab that covers fault diagnosis, equipment testing, and repair logs.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test faulty equipment to diagnose malfunctions, using test equipment or software, and applying knowledge of the functional operation of electronic units and systems.
  • Maintain equipment logs that record performance problems, repairs, calibrations, or tests.
  • Set up and test industrial equipment to ensure that it functions properly.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Circuit evaluation software
  • Computerized maintenance management system CMMS

Training & Development

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Getting Started

  • Associate Electronics Technician (CETa)

    Document foundational electronics knowledge for the industrial repair path if a foundational credential would be useful; ETA designs CETa for technicians with less than two years of electronics experience or training.

    For: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 948D Electronic Missile Systems Maintenance Warrant Officer

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 948D (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank warrant_officer, authority codeType warrant_officer

    Supports: Training electronics maintainers and maintenance supervisors, Advising commanders on electronics maintenance readiness, First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers (O*NET 49-1011.00), Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment (O*NET 49-2094.00)

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

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers (O*NET 49-1011.00)

  3. O*NET: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment (O*NET 49-2094.00)

  4. COOL credential mapping: Associate Electronics Technician (CETa)

    [4] 948D cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Associate Electronics Technician (CETa)

    [5]ETA International: Associate Certified Electronics Technician · CETa description and CETa Exam Info; retrieved 2026-09-23

    Supports: Associate Electronics Technician (CETa)

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