Marine Corps MOS · Logistics

2149 Ordnance Vehicle Maintenance Chief

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Overview

Ordnance Vehicle Maintenance Chiefs supervise the maintenance, repair, and inspection of ground ordnance vehicles and support equipment, and they manage related maintenance programs and facilities. They oversee training, records and reporting, preventive and corrective maintenance, equipment availability, publications control, supply support, and environmental and hazardous waste programs, serve as licensing officers for operators, supervise vehicle recovery, and assist the maintenance officer.

Core Skills

  • Automated maintenance records and availability reporting
  • Environmental and hazardous waste program oversight
  • Vehicle operator licensing and recovery supervision
  • Maintenance publications control and supply support

Civilian Career Paths

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First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

Supervising vehicle repairs, inspections, maintenance programs, and shop resources directly supports civilian vehicle maintenance supervision.

How to prepare: Build a sample shop work plan showing preventive maintenance priorities, technician assignments, and completed-repair inspection checkpoints.

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.
  • Inspect and monitor work areas, examine tools and equipment, and provide employee safety training to prevent, detect, and correct unsafe conditions or violations of procedures and safety rules.
  • Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office software

Logistics Analysts

Experience with equipment availability, supply support, and automated maintenance reporting transfers to analyzing maintenance-related logistics data.

How to prepare: Use a synthetic vehicle maintenance dataset in Microsoft Excel to create an availability report that identifies downtime patterns and parts-support priorities.

What the civilian work involves
  • Maintain databases of logistics information.
  • Interpret data on logistics elements, such as availability, maintainability, reliability, supply chain management, strategic sourcing or distribution, supplier management, or transportation.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Access

Training & Development

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Getting Started

  • Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (CMRP)

    Demonstrate maintenance, equipment reliability, and work-management knowledge relevant to civilian maintenance supervision.

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

    For: First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (5 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 2149

    [1] MOS 2149 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 35299; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Automated maintenance records and availability reporting, Environmental and hazardous waste program oversight, Vehicle operator licensing and recovery supervision, Maintenance publications control and supply support, First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers (O*NET 49-1011.00), Logistics Analysts (O*NET 13-1081.02)

  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: Logistics Analysts

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Logistics Analysts (O*NET 13-1081.02)

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

    [4] 2149 cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (CMRP)

  5. Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals: CMRP eligibility

    [5] Eligibility; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (CMRP)

Defense contractor jobs for 2149

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