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Marine Corps MOS · Logistics

3051 Inventory Management Specialist

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Overview

Inventory Management Specialists receive, inspect, locate, store, issue, prepare, ship, return, and dispose of materiel and equipment throughout the logistics chain. They maintain inventory and locator records, monitor shelf life items, handle hazardous materials, operate material handling equipment, and use scanners and automated warehousing systems.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: CL 95

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

  • First-in-first-out rotation and shelf-life monitoring
  • Hazardous material segregation by safety classification
  • Storage planning by weight, volume, and clearance
  • Optical scanner operation and maintenance

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.

Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks

Receiving, inspecting, packing, shipping, and maintaining inventory records directly overlap with civilian shipment verification and recordkeeping.

How to prepare: Practice building a shipment log in Microsoft Excel that records quantities, weights, damage, and discrepancies against an order.

What the civilian work involves
  • Examine shipment contents and compare with records, such as manifests, invoices, or orders, to verify accuracy.
  • Prepare documents, such as work orders, bills of lading, or shipping orders, to route materials.
  • Record shipment data, such as weight, charges, space availability, damages, or discrepancies, for reporting, accounting, or recordkeeping purposes.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SAP software

Stockers and Order Fillers

Locating, storing, rotating, and issuing military supplies transfers directly to warehouse stocking and order fulfillment.

How to prepare: Prepare a work example showing how you used locator records and first-in-first-out rotation to select, issue, and document stored supplies.

What the civilian work involves
  • Issue or distribute materials, products, parts, and supplies to customers or coworkers, based on information from incoming requisitions.
  • Keep records of out-going orders.
  • Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 3051

    [1] MOS 3051 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 43099; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: First-in-first-out rotation and shelf-life monitoring, Hazardous material segregation by safety classification, Storage planning by weight, volume, and clearance, Optical scanner operation and maintenance, Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks (O*NET 43-5071.00), Stockers and Order Fillers (O*NET 53-7065.00)

  2. O*NET: Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks (O*NET 43-5071.00)

  3. O*NET: Stockers and Order Fillers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Stockers and Order Fillers (O*NET 53-7065.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 3051

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