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6604 Aviation Supply Operations Officer

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Overview

Aviation Supply Operations Officers supervise aviation supply activities within Marine Aviation Logistics Squadrons, Marine Aircraft Wings, Marine Corps Air Stations, and naval expeditionary vessels. They oversee inventory, repairable management, finance, budgeting, accounting, and warehousing functions using systems such as R Supply, NALCOMIS, ALIS, and Supply Chain Management.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Aviation repairable inventory program oversight
  • Ashore and afloat logistics systems analysis
  • Deployed aviation supply procedure execution
  • Supply budgeting and accounting oversight

Civilian Career Paths

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Supply Chain Managers

Supervising aviation inventory, repairable management, warehousing, and financial functions transfers directly to coordinating civilian supply chain operations.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on SAP inventory management exercise covering material requirements, stock control, and warehouse transactions.

What the civilian work involves
  • Manage activities related to strategic or tactical purchasing, material requirements planning, controlling inventory, warehousing, or receiving.
  • Define performance metrics for measurement, comparison, or evaluation of supply chain factors, such as product cost or quality.
  • Develop procedures for coordination of supply chain management with other functional areas, such as sales, marketing, finance, production, or quality assurance.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SAP software

Logistics Analysts

Extracting information from aviation logistics systems for operational control and reporting supply management indicators transfers to civilian logistics data analysis.

How to prepare: Build a Microsoft Power BI dashboard from sample inventory data that highlights availability and supply performance indicators.

What the civilian work involves
  • Maintain databases of logistics information.
  • Interpret data on logistics elements, such as availability, maintainability, reliability, supply chain management, strategic sourcing or distribution, supplier management, or transportation.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Structured query language SQL

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 6604

    [1] MOS 6604 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 16481; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Aviation repairable inventory program oversight, Ashore and afloat logistics systems analysis, Deployed aviation supply procedure execution, Supply budgeting and accounting oversight, Supply Chain Managers (O*NET 11-3071.04), Logistics Analysts (O*NET 13-1081.02)

  2. O*NET: Supply Chain Managers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Supply Chain Managers (O*NET 11-3071.04)

  3. O*NET: Logistics Analysts

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Logistics Analysts (O*NET 13-1081.02)

Defense contractor jobs for 6604

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