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B01A Advanced Engineering Aide

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A Navy Enlisted Classification: a skill designation sailors hold in addition to their rating. Part of the Engineering Aide rating

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Overview

An advanced engineering aide applies foremanship, mathematics, and surveying techniques to design highway segments, determine runway orientation, and calculate station coordinates. The aide estimates materials, plans and schedules building construction, classifies and stabilizes soils, and tests bituminous paving and concrete mixes.

Core Skills

  • Highway and runway earthwork surveying with GNSS
  • Facility CAD design using Unified Facilities Criteria
  • Soil identification, classification, and stabilization
  • Marshall asphalt testing and concrete mix design

Civilian Career Paths

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Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Highway earthwork calculations, facility design, soil classification, and paving-material tests transfer directly to civil engineering technical support.

How to prepare: Build a sample civil project package containing earthwork quantities, a dimensional layout, and a materials-test summary for review with prospective employers.

What the civilian work involves
  • Calculate dimensions, square footage, profile and component specifications, and material quantities, using calculator or computer.
  • Draft detailed dimensional drawings and design layouts for projects to ensure conformance to specifications.
  • Confer with supervisor to determine project details such as plan preparation, acceptance testing, and evaluation of field conditions.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Microsoft Excel

Surveying and Mapping Technicians

Conventional surveying, GNSS technologies, and survey post-processing used for highway, runway, and facility layout provide a direct foundation for surveying technician work.

How to prepare: Create a practice topographic map from survey observations in Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D, documenting how you checked elevations and corrected errors.

What the civilian work involves
  • Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.
  • Check all layers of maps to ensure accuracy, identifying and marking errors and making corrections.
  • Produce or update overlay maps to show information boundaries, water locations, or topographic features on various base maps or at different scales.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D
  • ESRI ArcGIS software

Architectural and Civil Drafters

CAD-based facility design and highway and runway layout transfer to producing civil construction drawings and survey-based profiles.

How to prepare: Prepare a civilian drafting portfolio with a facility plan and a highway plan, profile, and cross-section set using Autodesk AutoCAD or Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D.

What the civilian work involves
  • Produce drawings, using computer-assisted drafting systems (CAD) or drafting machines, or by hand, using compasses, dividers, protractors, triangles, and other drafting devices.
  • Draft plans and detailed drawings for structures, installations, and construction projects, such as highways, sewage disposal systems, and dikes, working from sketches or notes.
  • Draw maps, diagrams, and profiles, using cross-sections and surveys, to represent elevations, topographical contours, subsurface formations, and structures.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC B01A

    [1] NEC entry "B01A - Advanced Engineering Aide"; cached text line 1864; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Highway and runway earthwork surveying with GNSS, Facility CAD design using Unified Facilities Criteria, Soil identification, classification, and stabilization, Marshall asphalt testing and concrete mix design, Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians (O*NET 17-3022.00), Surveying and Mapping Technicians (O*NET 17-3031.00), Architectural and Civil Drafters (O*NET 17-3011.00)

  2. O*NET: Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians (O*NET 17-3022.00)

  3. O*NET: Surveying and Mapping Technicians

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Surveying and Mapping Technicians (O*NET 17-3031.00)

  4. O*NET: Architectural and Civil Drafters

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Architectural and Civil Drafters (O*NET 17-3011.00)

Defense contractor jobs for B01A

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