Navy NEC · Engineering

711B IUSS Maintenance Technician

Current service use not established

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A Navy Enlisted Classification: a skill designation sailors hold in addition to their rating.

Overview

An IUSS Maintenance Technician performs organizational level preventive and corrective maintenance. The technician maintains SOSUS, SURTASS, and FDS components.

Core Skills

  • Organizational-level preventive and corrective maintenance of SOSUS, SURTASS, and FDS components

Civilian Career Paths

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Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

Organizational-level preventive and corrective maintenance on SOSUS, SURTASS, and FDS components provides a maintenance foundation for moving into commercial and industrial electronics repair.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on electronics repair course covering test-equipment fault diagnosis, component inspection, and repair-log documentation.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test faulty equipment to diagnose malfunctions, using test equipment or software, and applying knowledge of the functional operation of electronic units and systems.
  • Maintain equipment logs that record performance problems, repairs, calibrations, or tests.
  • Inspect components of industrial equipment for accurate assembly and installation or for defects, such as loose connections or frayed wires.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Circuit evaluation software
  • Computerized maintenance management system CMMS

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC 711B

    [1] NEC entry "711B - IUSS Maintenance Technician"; cached text line 16735; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Organizational-level preventive and corrective maintenance of SOSUS, SURTASS, and FDS components, Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment (O*NET 49-2094.00)

  2. O*NET: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment (O*NET 49-2094.00)

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