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L08A Bio-Medical Equipment Technician

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

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Overview

A Bio-Medical Equipment Technician assembles, maintains, troubleshoots, aligns, and calibrates medical equipment at the module or circuit board level. The technician calculates circuit parameters, performs soldering, plumbing, and welding, maintains documentation, and works on deployable imaging, laboratory, dental, ophthalmic, surgical, pneumatic, and hydraulic equipment.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Module and circuit board troubleshooting
  • Deployable X-ray and dental equipment calibration
  • Pneumatic and hydraulic medical equipment maintenance
  • Circuit parameter calculations and soldering

Civilian Career Paths

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Medical Equipment Repairers

Military experience assembling, calibrating, and troubleshooting diagnostic and treatment equipment directly overlaps with civilian medical equipment repair.

How to prepare: Build a repair portfolio using releasable examples that show the equipment type, fault diagnosis, calibration steps, and completed maintenance documentation.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test or calibrate components or equipment, following manufacturers' manuals and troubleshooting techniques, using hand tools, power tools, or measuring devices.
  • Inspect, test, or troubleshoot malfunctioning medical or related equipment, following manufacturers' specifications and using test and analysis instruments.
  • Keep records of maintenance, repair, and required updates of equipment.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Inventory control system software

Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians

Circuit-level troubleshooting and maintenance of pneumatic and hydraulic medical equipment provide transferable experience for repairing electromechanical assemblies.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on electromechanical assembly testing course to practice applying medical equipment troubleshooting methods to industrial equipment.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test performance of electromechanical assemblies, using test instruments such as oscilloscopes, electronic voltmeters, or bridges.
  • Modify, maintain, or repair electrical, electronic, or mechanical components, equipment, or systems to ensure proper functioning.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC L08A

    [1] NEC entry "L08A - Bio-Medical Equipment Technician"; cached text line 7526; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Module and circuit board troubleshooting, Deployable X-ray and dental equipment calibration, Pneumatic and hydraulic medical equipment maintenance, Circuit parameter calculations and soldering, Medical Equipment Repairers (O*NET 49-9062.00), Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians (O*NET 17-3024.00)

  2. O*NET: Medical Equipment Repairers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Medical Equipment Repairers (O*NET 49-9062.00)

  3. O*NET: Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians (O*NET 17-3024.00)

Defense contractor jobs for L08A

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