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U46B Damage Control (DC) Journeyman

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

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Overview

A Damage Control Journeyman serves as a work center supervisor at sea and manages assigned work center and program responsibilities. This journeyman maintains systems and damage control equipment, supports damage control readiness, applies firefighting principles, and solves problems in assigned positions.

Core Skills

  • Shipboard work center and program management
  • Damage control equipment and system maintenance
  • Application of firefighting readiness principles

Civilian Career Paths

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Firefighters

Applying shipboard firefighting readiness principles and maintaining damage control equipment provides a foundation for civilian firefighting.

How to prepare: Review a target department's recruit process and plan for its written and physical tests, interview, and fire academy training. EMT requirements and licensing vary by locality, and operating a firetruck may require a CDL or firefighter endorsement.

What the civilian work involves
  • Dress with equipment such as fire-resistant clothing and breathing apparatus.
  • Assess fires and situations and report conditions to superiors to receive instructions, using two-way radios.
  • Respond to fire alarms and other calls for assistance, such as automobile and industrial accidents.

Maintenance and Repair Workers, General

System maintenance, damage control equipment maintenance, and work center problem-solving transfer to civilian equipment upkeep and troubleshooting.

How to prepare: Compare your documented equipment maintenance experience with a target maintenance opening to identify which machinery-specific repair skills need hands-on practice.

What the civilian work involves
  • Perform routine maintenance, such as inspecting drives, motors, or belts, checking fluid levels, replacing filters, or doing other preventive maintenance actions.
  • Inspect, operate, or test machinery or equipment to diagnose machine malfunctions.
  • Repair machines, equipment, or structures, using tools such as hammers, hoists, saws, drills, wrenches, or equipment such as precision measuring instruments or electrical or electronic testing devices.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC U46B

    [1] NEC entry "U46B - Damage Control (DC) Journeyman"; cached text line 12075; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Shipboard work center and program management, Damage control equipment and system maintenance, Application of firefighting readiness principles, Firefighters (O*NET 33-2011.00), Maintenance and Repair Workers, General (O*NET 49-9071.00)

  2. O*NET: Firefighters

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Firefighters (O*NET 33-2011.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Firefighters

    [3] How to Become a Firefighter; Licenses, Certifications, and Registrations; page dated 2026-09-14, retrieved 2026-09-23

    Supports: Firefighters (O*NET 33-2011.00)

  4. O*NET: Maintenance and Repair Workers, General

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Maintenance and Repair Workers, General (O*NET 49-9071.00)

Defense contractor jobs for U46B

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