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Marine Corps MOS · Logistics

0402 Logistics Officer

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Overview

Logistics Officers plan, coordinate, execute, and supervise tactical logistics, supply, maintenance, transportation, general engineering, health services, and service functions. They command logistics units, serve on operating force and joint staffs, and supervise airborne, aerial delivery, ammunition, armory, motor transport, and maintenance management activities.

Core Skills

  • Integrated supply, maintenance, and transportation planning
  • Airborne delivery mission and safety supervision
  • Arms, ammunition, and explosives oversight
  • Landing support and combat logistics patrol command

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.

Logisticians

Planning and coordinating supply, maintenance, transportation, and supporting services transfers directly to coordinating civilian logistics activities.

How to prepare: Build a sample logistics performance review in Microsoft Excel that compares delivery and service results against customer targets.

What the civilian work involves
  • Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's key personnel involved in, or directly relevant to, a logistics activity.
  • Develop an understanding of customers' needs and take actions to ensure that such needs are met.
  • Review logistics performance with customers against targets, benchmarks, and service agreements.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SAP software

Supply Chain Managers

Supervising tactical supply and transportation functions provides a foundation for coordinating civilian material requirements and distribution across business functions.

How to prepare: Develop a sample material requirements plan linking inventory needs, transportation choices, and cost metrics to practice commercial supply chain planning.

What the civilian work involves
  • Manage activities related to strategic or tactical purchasing, material requirements planning, controlling inventory, warehousing, or receiving.
  • Define performance metrics for measurement, comparison, or evaluation of supply chain factors, such as product cost or quality.
  • Develop procedures for coordination of supply chain management with other functional areas, such as sales, marketing, finance, production, or quality assurance.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SAP software

Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers

Motor transport, maintenance management, and tactical logistics unit leadership transfer to supervising fleet readiness and distribution operations.

How to prepare: Create a sample fleet maintenance and distribution work plan showing inspection priorities, repair scheduling, and coordination with shipping operations.

What the civilian work involves
  • Inspect physical conditions of warehouses, vehicle fleets, or equipment and order testing, maintenance, repairs, or replacements.
  • Plan, organize, or manage the work of subordinate staff to ensure that the work is accomplished in a manner consistent with organizational requirements.
  • Collaborate with other departments to integrate logistics with business systems or processes, such as customer sales, order management, accounting, or shipping.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Project

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 0402

    [1] MOS 0402 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 2445; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Integrated supply, maintenance, and transportation planning, Airborne delivery mission and safety supervision, Arms, ammunition, and explosives oversight, Landing support and combat logistics patrol command, Logisticians (O*NET 13-1081.00), Supply Chain Managers (O*NET 11-3071.04), Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (O*NET 11-3071.00)

    [2]NAVMC 1200.1L MOS 0402: Related SOC titles · MOS 0402 section "e. Related Standard Occupational Classification"

    Supports: Logisticians (O*NET 13-1081.00)

  2. O*NET: Logisticians

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Logisticians (O*NET 13-1081.00)

  3. O*NET: Supply Chain Managers

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Supply Chain Managers (O*NET 11-3071.04)

  4. O*NET: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers

    [5] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (O*NET 11-3071.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 0402

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