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3302 Food Service Officer

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Overview

A food service officer supervises the commander's food service and subsistence program, coordinates messing support, and advises commanders on the employment of food service personnel and equipment. The officer plans and oversees feeding operations, manages appropriated funds, inspects mess halls, coordinates safe food sourcing, and supports prepositioning, facility, menu, nutrition, and equipment requirements.

Core Skills

  • Expeditionary feeding equipment prepositioning
  • Safe food sourcing in remote environments
  • Appropriated food service fund oversight
  • Dining facility equipment procurement and layout

Civilian Career Paths

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Food Service Managers

Managing installation food service, inspecting mess hall operations, and coordinating food service personnel and equipment transfer directly to civilian dining operations.

How to prepare: Build a sample dining-operation plan covering staff assignments, sanitation records, and food-quality complaint handling.

What the civilian work involves
  • Establish standards for personnel performance and customer service.
  • Keep records required by government agencies regarding sanitation or food subsidies.
  • Investigate and resolve complaints regarding food quality, service, or accommodations.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Intuit QuickBooks

Logisticians

Tailoring prepositioned feeding equipment and coordinating logistics agencies around operational requirements provide a foundation for civilian logistics planning and customer coordination.

How to prepare: Create a civilian logistics case study translating a feeding-support requirement into equipment needs, agency responsibilities, and service-performance targets.

What the civilian work involves
  • Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's key personnel involved in, or directly relevant to, a logistics activity.
  • Develop an understanding of customers' needs and take actions to ensure that such needs are met.
  • Review logistics performance with customers against targets, benchmarks, and service agreements.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SAP software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 3302

    [1] MOS 3302 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 13082; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Expeditionary feeding equipment prepositioning, Safe food sourcing in remote environments, Appropriated food service fund oversight, Dining facility equipment procurement and layout, Food Service Managers (O*NET 11-9051.00), Logisticians (O*NET 13-1081.00)

  2. O*NET: Food Service Managers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Food Service Managers (O*NET 11-9051.00)

  3. O*NET: Logisticians

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Logisticians (O*NET 13-1081.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 3302

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