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2891 Ground Electronics Systems Maintenance Chief

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Overview

A Ground Electronics Systems Maintenance Chief formulates and implements maintenance plans that support tactical logistics. They manage ground electronics maintenance personnel and develop procedures for inspecting, servicing, repairing, modifying, recovering, rebuilding, testing, and calibrating equipment.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Maintenance planning for tactical logistics
  • Electronics testing and calibration procedure development
  • Electronics evaluation test plan writing
  • Maintenance oversight across electronics specialties

Civilian Career Paths

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Electronics Maintenance Supervisor

Supervising electronics maintenance shops, inspecting maintenance units, and developing repair procedures transfer directly to oversight of civilian electronics repair teams.

How to prepare: Build a civilian-facing work sample showing a maintenance plan, technician assignments, and repair acceptance checks, using only releasable information.

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.
  • Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Project

Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Developing electronics repair and testing procedures, writing evaluation test plans, and teaching electronics theory provide a foundation for civilian equipment testing and maintenance.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on electronics testing refresher that produces a documented equipment diagnosis and test report to demonstrate current bench skills.

What the civilian work involves
  • Modify, maintain, or repair electronics equipment or systems to ensure proper functioning.
  • Set up and operate specialized or standard test equipment to diagnose, test, or analyze the performance of electronic components, assemblies, or systems.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Adobe Acrobat

Training & Development

Choose credentials for your target role. COOL funding markers describe program listings, not a guarantee of eligibility or funding.

Career Growth

  • Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE) · Funded

    Support progression into maintenance process improvement and repair-quality oversight.

    Eligibility and preparation: Requires 10 years of full-time, paid experience in CMQ/OE Body of Knowledge areas, including 5 years with authority to define, execute, or control processes or projects and responsibility for outcomes. One education waiver may reduce the total: technical/trade diploma by 1 year, associate degree by 2, bachelor's by 4, or master's/doctorate by 5; the 5 decision-making years remain required.

    For: Electronics Maintenance Supervisor

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 2891

    [1] MOS 2891 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 42741; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Maintenance planning for tactical logistics, Electronics testing and calibration procedure development, Electronics evaluation test plan writing, Maintenance oversight across electronics specialties, Electronics Maintenance Supervisor (O*NET 49-1011.00), Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians (O*NET 17-3023.00)

  2. O*NET: First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Electronics Maintenance Supervisor (O*NET 49-1011.00)

  3. O*NET: Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians (O*NET 17-3023.00)

  4. COOL credential mapping: Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE)

    [4] 2891 cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE)

    [5]ASQ: Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE) certification requirements · Requirements and Education sections; Examination; retrieved 2026-09-23

    Supports: Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE)

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