Marine Corps MOS · IT & Cyber

2805 Electronics Maintenance Officer (Ground)

Current service use not established

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Overview

A Ground Electronics Maintenance Officer plans, supervises, and executes the installation, operation, and sustainment of ground electronics maintenance activities. The officer manages equipment readiness, work progress, and personnel training while overseeing recovery, salvage, and maintenance for radio, network, satellite communication, cryptographic, unmanned, fire control, sensor, robotic, and other electronic systems.

Core Skills

  • Radio and cryptographic equipment maintenance oversight
  • Equipment readiness and maintainer qualification management
  • Field maintenance site establishment and security

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 Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

Supervising electronics maintenance personnel, tracking work progress, and managing equipment readiness transfer directly to electronics repair-shop supervision.

How to prepare: Build a maintenance-supervision portfolio showing how you prioritized repair workloads, tracked readiness, and managed technician qualifications, targeting electronics or communications service shops.

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 Project

Telecommunications Engineering Specialists

Planning communications-equipment sustainment transfers to telecommunications upgrade coordination, with senior-billet requirements and acquisition support providing additional overlap.

How to prepare: Develop a sample telecommunications upgrade proposal documenting user needs, existing equipment, proposed changes, and maintenance support.

What the civilian work involves
  • Consult with users, administrators, and engineers to identify business and technical requirements for proposed system modifications or technology purchases.
  • Implement system renovation projects in collaboration with technical staff, engineering consultants, installers, and vendors.
  • Assess existing facilities' needs for new or modified telecommunications systems.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 2805

    [1] MOS 2805 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 12747; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Radio and cryptographic equipment maintenance oversight, Equipment readiness and maintainer qualification management, Field maintenance site establishment and security, First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers (O*NET 49-1011.00), Telecommunications Engineering Specialists (O*NET 15-1241.01)

  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: Telecommunications Engineering Specialists

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Telecommunications Engineering Specialists (O*NET 15-1241.01)

Defense contractor jobs for 2805

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