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Marine Corps MOS · Logistics

3102 Distribution Management Officer

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Overview

A Distribution Management Officer provides transportation services for cargo, passengers, personal property, and unit moves within an assigned area while ensuring compliance with governing laws, directives, systems, programs, and regulations. The officer directs and evaluates traffic management and unit movement, manages transportation procurement and payment processes, acts as a contracting officer representative, advises commanders, and provides technical knowledge of automated information systems that deliver in-transit visibility.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Transportation service procurement and payment documentation
  • Transportation entitlement decisions for personnel moves
  • Transportation provider contract oversight
  • In-transit tracking of cargo and passengers

Civilian Career Paths

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Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers

Directing worldwide transportation movements, overseeing transportation providers, and coordinating shipment visibility transfer directly to transportation and distribution operations.

How to prepare: Build a civilian-facing case study of a transportation operation you managed, showing how you coordinated movements, provider performance, compliance, and payment processes without disclosing sensitive information.

What the civilian work involves
  • Plan, organize, or manage the work of subordinate staff to ensure that the work is accomplished in a manner consistent with organizational requirements.
  • Collaborate with other departments to integrate logistics with business systems or processes, such as customer sales, order management, accounting, or shipping.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Project

Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products

Transportation procurement actions, financial documentation, and contracting officer representative duties provide a foundation for purchasing transportation services.

How to prepare: Create a sample transportation-service bid package with service specifications and a proposal comparison worksheet to practice civilian purchasing workflows.

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
  • Microsoft Word

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 3102

    [1] MOS 3102 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 13005; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Transportation service procurement and payment documentation, Transportation entitlement decisions for personnel moves, Transportation provider contract oversight, In-transit tracking of cargo and passengers, Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (O*NET 11-3071.00), Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products (O*NET 13-1023.00)

    [2]NAVMC 1200.1L MOS 3102: Related SOC titles · MOS 3102 section "e. Related Standard Occupational Classification"

    Supports: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (O*NET 11-3071.00)

  2. O*NET: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (O*NET 11-3071.00)

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

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

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

Defense contractor jobs for 3102

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