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Marine Corps MOS · Engineering

1302 Combat Engineer Officer

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Overview

Combat Engineer Officers command or assist in commanding engineer units that operate and maintain heavy equipment, conduct engineer reconnaissance, emplace obstacles, and perform breaching and clearance operations. Their units also construct roads, airfields, landing zones, survivability positions, base camps, and bridges, store and dispense bulk fuel products, and install, operate, and maintain tactical utility systems.

Core Skills

  • Expedient road and airfield construction oversight
  • Breaching and explosive hazard reduction oversight
  • Tactical and non-standard bridging oversight
  • Base camp construction and tactical utilities oversight

Civilian Career Paths

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Construction Managers

Commanding engineer units responsible for roads, airfields, base camps, and horizontal and vertical construction transfers directly to coordinating construction activities and supervising construction crews.

How to prepare: Build a civilian construction project work sample with an activity schedule and cost tracking report, using a road or base camp project you helped lead as the starting point.

What the civilian work involves
  • Prepare and submit budget estimates, progress reports, or cost tracking reports.
  • Plan, schedule, or coordinate construction project activities to meet deadlines.
  • Direct and supervise construction or related workers.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Project
  • Procore software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 1302

    [1] MOS 1302 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 5762; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Expedient road and airfield construction oversight, Breaching and explosive hazard reduction oversight, Tactical and non-standard bridging oversight, Base camp construction and tactical utilities oversight, Construction Managers (O*NET 11-9021.00)

    [2]NAVMC 1200.1L MOS 1302: Related SOC titles · MOS 1302 section "e. Related Standard Occupational Classification"

    Supports: Construction Managers (O*NET 11-9021.00)

  2. O*NET: Construction Managers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Construction Managers (O*NET 11-9021.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 1302

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