Navy NEC · Engineering

B10E Master Equipmentman

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

Overview

A Master Equipmentman works in construction management with a focus on operating and maintaining vehicles and construction equipment. The specialty reflects career progression, experience, and expertise in equipment maintenance and operation.

Core Skills

  • Vehicle and construction equipment maintenance
  • Construction equipment operation and management

Civilian Career Paths

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Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines

Experience maintaining and operating construction equipment transfers directly to mobile heavy equipment maintenance work.

How to prepare: Compare your documented equipment maintenance experience with a target employer's machinery, then select hands-on training for unfamiliar equipment.

What the civilian work involves
  • Repair and replace damaged or worn parts.
  • Test mechanical products and equipment after repair or assembly to ensure proper performance and compliance with manufacturers' specifications.
  • Operate and inspect machines or heavy equipment to diagnose defects.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Maintenance management software
  • Recordkeeping software

First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

Construction management experience focused on vehicle and equipment maintenance provides a foundation for supervising an equipment maintenance shop.

How to prepare: Build a work-history summary identifying any repair-quality oversight and employee supervision you performed, and use it to target equipment-shop supervisory openings.

What the civilian work involves
  • Inspect, test, and measure completed work, using devices such as hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements.
  • 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.
  • Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC B10E

    [1] NEC entry "B10E - Master Equipmentman"; cached text line 2139; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Vehicle and construction equipment maintenance, Construction equipment operation and management, Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines (O*NET 49-3042.00), First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers (O*NET 49-1011.00)

  2. O*NET: Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines (O*NET 49-3042.00)

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

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

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

Defense contractor jobs for B10E

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