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0102 Manpower Officer

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Overview

Manpower officers plan, coordinate, execute, and supervise general, operational, manpower, and personnel administration within their commands and advise commanders on administrative matters. They oversee correspondence, records, personnel strength reporting, awards, evaluations, classified material, casualty reporting, postal functions, and military and civilian manpower planning and staffing.

Core Skills

  • Personnel strength and casualty reporting
  • Awards processing and performance evaluation guidance
  • Command files, directives, and forms oversight
  • Military and civilian manpower planning

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers

Supervising command administration, correspondence routing, files, and forms programs transfers directly to overseeing office workflows and procedural accuracy.

How to prepare: Build a sample office workflow showing document routing, review checkpoints, deadlines, and procedures for correcting errors.

What the civilian work involves
  • Supervise the work of office, administrative, or customer service employees to ensure adherence to quality standards, deadlines, and proper procedures, correcting errors or problems.
  • Resolve customer complaints or answer customers' questions regarding policies and procedures.
  • Discuss job performance problems with employees to identify causes and issues and to work on resolving problems.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Adobe Acrobat

Human Resources Managers

Personnel administration and performance-evaluation guidance support HR operations, while field-grade manpower planning and staffing duties provide additional workforce planning experience.

How to prepare: Complete a civilian HR course covering compensation, employee relations, and labor contracts to address responsibilities beyond the documented military personnel duties.

What the civilian work involves
  • Serve as a link between management and employees by handling questions, interpreting and administering contracts and helping resolve work-related problems.
  • Plan, direct, supervise, and coordinate work activities of subordinates and staff relating to employment, compensation, labor relations, and employee relations.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Workday software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 0102

    [1] MOS 0102 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 1122; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Personnel strength and casualty reporting, Awards processing and performance evaluation guidance, Command files, directives, and forms oversight, Military and civilian manpower planning, First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers (O*NET 43-1011.00), Human Resources Managers (O*NET 11-3121.00)

  2. O*NET: First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers (O*NET 43-1011.00)

  3. O*NET: Human Resources Managers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Human Resources Managers (O*NET 11-3121.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 0102

Descriptions may be summarized for clarity. Verify all information with your branch career counselor or official military documentation before making career decisions.

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