Marine Corps MOS · Aviation

6302 Avionics Officer

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Overview

An Avionics Officer directs organizational and intermediate avionics maintenance efforts, coordinates logistics resources, and supports personnel development. The officer advises commanders on avionics matters and manages electronic countermeasures, aircraft survivability equipment, and electronic key management system programs.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Electronic countermeasures and aircraft survivability oversight
  • On-aircraft digital interoperability systems oversight
  • Electronic key management program oversight
  • Integrated avionics logistics resource management

Civilian Career Paths

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Avionics Maintenance Supervisor

Directing organizational and intermediate avionics maintenance, support equipment maintenance, and technical professional development transfers directly to supervising an avionics maintenance team.

How to prepare: Prepare a maintenance-supervision portfolio showing how you coordinated personnel, equipment support, and competing maintenance priorities, using examples cleared for public release.

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

Logisticians

Integrated logistics resource management and coordination of avionics maintenance support provide a foundation for civilian aviation logistics work.

How to prepare: Build a sample aviation-support logistics review that compares customer needs, resource constraints, and performance against defined service targets.

What the civilian work involves
  • 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 6302

    [1] MOS 6302 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 16104; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Electronic countermeasures and aircraft survivability oversight, On-aircraft digital interoperability systems oversight, Electronic key management program oversight, Integrated avionics logistics resource management, Avionics Maintenance Supervisor (O*NET 49-1011.00), Logisticians (O*NET 13-1081.00)

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

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

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

  3. O*NET: Logisticians

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Logisticians (O*NET 13-1081.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 6302

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