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3044 Operational Contract Support (OCS) Specialist

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Overview

An Operational Contract Support Specialist procures supplies and services under governing regulations for operations, exercises, contingencies, natural disasters, foreign training events, and garrison environments. The specialist advises senior leaders on business solutions and concepts, works independently, and self-manages workloads.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: GT 105

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: navmc-1200-1l-fy26 (source date 2025-03). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Supply and service procurement during contingencies
  • Procurement coordination with host-nation workforces
  • Business solution advice for senior leaders

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.

Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products

Procuring supplies and services under governing regulations while coordinating with commercial and government stakeholders transfers directly to civilian purchasing work.

How to prepare: Build a sample civilian purchasing packet containing a requisition, bid solicitation, and checklist of applicable procurement rules.

What the civilian work involves
  • Monitor and follow applicable laws and regulations.
  • Prepare purchase orders, solicit bid proposals, and review requisitions for goods and services.
  • Write and review product specifications, maintaining a working technical knowledge of the goods or services to be purchased.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SAP software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 3044

    [1] MOS 3044 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 42874; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Supply and service procurement during contingencies, Procurement coordination with host-nation workforces, Business solution advice for senior leaders, Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products (O*NET 13-1023.00)

  2. O*NET: Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products (O*NET 13-1023.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 3044

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