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6004 Aircraft Maintenance Engineer Officer

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Overview

Aircraft maintenance engineer officers manage aircraft maintenance and aeronautical repair matters, including personnel employment, equipment readiness, and exercise and deployment planning. They oversee the technical, procedural, planning, and managerial details of organizational and intermediate maintenance for shore based, sea based, and expeditionary operations.

Core Skills

  • Organizational and intermediate maintenance planning
  • Maintenance resource planning for deployments
  • Navy aviation maintenance program oversight
  • Personnel allocation for aircraft readiness

Civilian Career Paths

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Aircraft Maintenance Supervisor

Managing aviation maintenance execution, personnel employment, and equipment readiness transfers directly to supervising aircraft maintenance teams.

How to prepare: Prepare a maintenance-supervision work sample showing how you allocated personnel and scheduled work to sustain aircraft readiness. Check each opening's duties and qualifications: some hands-on or certificated maintenance-supervision openings require an FAA mechanic certificate with Airframe and Powerplant ratings, but this is not a universal requirement for maintenance planning or oversight roles.

What the civilian work involves
  • Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
  • Inspect and monitor work areas, examine tools and equipment, and provide employee safety training to prevent, detect, and correct unsafe conditions or violations of procedures and safety rules.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Project

Notes & Sources

  • The verified specialty emphasizes maintenance planning and oversight rather than repair expertise on any particular aircraft type; hands-on supervisory openings need a separate review of your repair experience.
Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 6004

    [1] MOS 6004 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 15895; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Organizational and intermediate maintenance planning, Maintenance resource planning for deployments, Navy aviation maintenance program oversight, Personnel allocation for aircraft readiness, Aircraft Maintenance Supervisor (O*NET 49-1011.00)

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

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

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

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