Navy NEC · Engineering

U46D Advanced Engineering Instructor

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

Overview

An Advanced Engineering Instructor develops, validates, standardizes, publishes, and revises maintenance procedures while helping align procedures and standards across Regional Maintenance Centers. This instructor teaches engineering specialty topics and advanced engineering in classrooms and port training settings, and provides maintenance focused instruction and mentorship to individuals and units.

Core Skills

  • Maintenance procedure development and validation
  • Maintenance standards alignment across regional centers

Civilian Career Paths

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Training and Development Specialists

Teaching engineering specialties in classrooms and during maintenance availabilities, mentoring maintenance personnel, and developing maintenance procedures transfer directly to workforce technical training.

How to prepare: Build a sample maintenance-training module with an instructor guide, demonstration, and learner assessment using publicly shareable technical material.

What the civilian work involves
  • Present information with a variety of instructional techniques or formats, such as role playing, simulations, team exercises, group discussions, videos, or lectures.
  • Obtain, organize, or develop training procedure manuals, guides, or course materials, such as handouts or visual materials.
  • Offer specific training programs to help workers maintain or improve job skills.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Adobe Acrobat

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC U46D

    [1] NEC entry "U46D - Advanced Engineering Instructor"; cached text line 12103; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Maintenance procedure development and validation, Maintenance standards alignment across regional centers, Training and Development Specialists (O*NET 13-1151.00)

  2. O*NET: Training and Development Specialists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Training and Development Specialists (O*NET 13-1151.00)

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