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U68A Steering Gear Systems Mechanical Technician

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Overview

A Steering Gear Systems Mechanical Technician operates and troubleshoots shipboard steering systems. This technician performs organizational or intermediate preventive and corrective maintenance on those systems.

Core Skills

  • Organizational and intermediate-level steering system maintenance
  • Shipboard steering system operation and troubleshooting

Civilian Career Paths

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Industrial Machinery Mechanics

Preventive and corrective maintenance on shipboard steering systems provides directly transferable experience for maintaining and repairing industrial machinery.

How to prepare: Take a hands-on industrial machinery maintenance course focused on equipment disassembly, component replacement, and reassembly to extend steering-system experience to production equipment.

What the civilian work involves
  • Repair or maintain the operating condition of industrial production or processing machinery or equipment.
  • Repair or replace broken or malfunctioning components of machinery or equipment.
  • Reassemble equipment after completion of inspections, testing, or repairs.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC U68A

    [1] NEC entry "U68A - Steering Gear Systems Mechanical Technician"; cached text line 12527; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Organizational and intermediate-level steering system maintenance, Shipboard steering system operation and troubleshooting, Industrial Machinery Mechanics (O*NET 49-9041.00)

  2. O*NET: Industrial Machinery Mechanics

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Industrial Machinery Mechanics (O*NET 49-9041.00)

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