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U07A Marine Gas Turbine Inspector

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

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Overview

A Marine Gas Turbine Inspector performs periodic borescope inspections, mechanical grooms, and gas turbine bulletin inspections. The inspector troubleshoots equipment, provides on-the-job training, oversees intermediate-level repairs and gas turbine change installations, assists with calibration, recommends engine changes, and verifies engine logbook entries.

Core Skills

  • Borescope and gas turbine bulletin inspections
  • Engine replacement recommendations and installation oversight
  • Intermediate repair oversight and troubleshooting
  • Engine maintenance logbook accuracy checks

Civilian Career Paths

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Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers

Borescope inspections, gas turbine bulletin inspections, and calibration assistance transfer to mechanical equipment inspection for conformance to specifications.

How to prepare: Practice documenting a mechanical component inspection against written specifications, including measurements and acceptance or rejection findings.

What the civilian work involves
  • Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications.
  • Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers.
  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

Oversight of intermediate repairs and gas turbine installations, coupled with troubleshooting and on-the-job training, transfers directly to mechanical maintenance supervision.

How to prepare: Build a work portfolio showing how you oversaw an engine installation or intermediate repair, resolved technical problems, and checked maintenance records.

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.
  • Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC U07A

    [1] NEC entry "U07A - Marine Gas Turbine Inspector"; cached text line 11285; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Borescope and gas turbine bulletin inspections, Engine replacement recommendations and installation oversight, Intermediate repair oversight and troubleshooting, Engine maintenance logbook accuracy checks, Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers (O*NET 51-9061.00), First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers (O*NET 49-1011.00)

  2. O*NET: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers (O*NET 51-9061.00)

  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 U07A

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