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Marine Corps MOS · Aviation

6019 Aircraft Maintenance Chief

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Overview

An Aircraft Maintenance Chief establishes and sustains maintenance functions for fixed-wing, rotary-wing, tilt-rotor, and aviation logistics squadrons or repair facilities. The chief advises commanders on maintenance personnel qualifications and development while helping plan, manage, supervise, and execute scheduled maintenance, unscheduled maintenance, and flight operations.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Maintenance personnel qualification and development advising
  • Scheduled and unscheduled maintenance coordination
  • Maintenance and flight operations planning

Civilian Career Paths

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First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

Planning and supervising aircraft maintenance while advising on personnel qualifications directly supports maintenance workforce supervision.

How to prepare: Build a work sample showing how you coordinated scheduled maintenance, handled unscheduled work, and matched personnel qualifications to assignments for an aviation maintenance supervisor application.

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

Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians

Experience planning, supervising, and supporting execution of scheduled and unscheduled aircraft maintenance provides a foundation for moving into hands-on civilian aircraft maintenance.

How to prepare: Gather documentary evidence of your practical military maintenance work for FAA review against the Airframe and Powerplant experience routes. Air carriers often require the certificate for hiring, although it is not an FAA regulatory requirement for every airline mechanic job.

What the civilian work involves
  • Read and interpret maintenance manuals, service bulletins, and other specifications to determine the feasibility and method of repairing or replacing malfunctioning or damaged components.
  • Maintain repair logs, documenting all preventive and corrective aircraft maintenance.
  • Conduct routine and special inspections as required by regulations.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Access Software AIRPAX

Training & Development

Choose credentials for your target role. COOL funding markers describe program listings, not a guarantee of eligibility or funding.

Getting Started

  • Mechanic (Airframe & Powerplant) · Funded

    Establish FAA mechanic certification for a transition into civilian aircraft maintenance.

    Eligibility and preparation: Applicants must be at least 18 and able to read, write, speak, and understand English. The experience route requires 18 months of appropriate practical experience for one rating or 30 months concurrently performing duties appropriate to both ratings; alternatives include graduation from an FAA-approved Aviation Maintenance Technician School or completion of the Joint Service Aviation Maintenance Technician Certification Council training course. The FAA evaluates documentary evidence of military experience, and applicants must pass written, oral, and practical tests.

    For: Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 6019

    [1] MOS 6019 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 48757; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Maintenance personnel qualification and development advising, Scheduled and unscheduled maintenance coordination, Maintenance and flight operations planning, First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers (O*NET 49-1011.00), Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians (O*NET 49-3011.00)

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

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers (O*NET 49-1011.00)

  3. O*NET: Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians (O*NET 49-3011.00)

  4. FAA: Become an Aviation Mechanic

    [4] Requirements and mechanic experience requirements

    Supports: Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians (O*NET 49-3011.00), Mechanic (Airframe & Powerplant)

    [5]COOL credential mapping: Mechanic (Airframe & Powerplant) · 6019 cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Mechanic (Airframe & Powerplant)

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Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to 6019. Each history page explains the change.

6119Title not stated in source

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