U.S. Marine Corps MOS Career Guide

5993 — Electronics Maintenance Chief, Aviation Command and Control:
Civilian Career Guide

Marine Corps 5993 experience maps to electronics maintenance supervision, reliability planning, technical program management, training leadership, and sustainment logistics. The strongest civilian case shows the systems and technicians led, maintenance availability improved, supply and inventory decisions made, and technical risk communicated, while treating clearance status and employer-specific authority as separate hiring requirements.

Maintenance supervisors median: $78,300

Project management specialists median: $100,750

NAVMC 1200.1L current PMOS verified

NAVMC source note

NAVMC 1200.1L identifies 5993 as the MSgt and MGySgt career progression for designated MACCS electronics maintainers. The MOS supervises maintenance personnel, advises commanders on equipment capabilities and limitations, plans maintenance and supply support, evaluates performance, manages parts and inventory activity, develops training, and supports spectrum and system-employment planning. Secret eligibility is required, with some billets requiring higher eligibility.

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Electronics Maintenance Supervisor$48k – $120k617,500 jobs in 2024

Maintenance and Reliability Program Manager$74k – $190k17,100 manager openings yearly

Technical Project Management Specialist$60k – $166k6% growth 2024-2034

Maintenance Supply and Sustainment Analyst$49k – $132k17% growth 2024-2034

Technical Training Program Manager$76k – $220k6% growth 2024-2034

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A senior title helps only when the civilian employer can see the systems, people, readiness, and decisions behind it.

Your blueprint should separate hands-on electronics depth from maintenance-management scope, then quantify technicians led, systems supported, maintenance schedules, availability, parts and inventory, inspections, training, and commander-level recommendations.

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Section 01

Top Civilian Role Matches for 5993

Electronics Maintenance Supervisor Most direct leadership match

$48k – $120k

This is the most direct translation of 5993 work. Defense contractors, electronics manufacturers, utilities, communications operators, and federal maintenance organizations hire supervisors who schedule work, assign technicians, inspect results, resolve parts constraints, and communicate equipment risk. Lead with the number and type of systems supported, technicians and shifts led, inspection volume, backlog reduced, and availability restored. A clearance may help in defense work, but the employer still verifies current status, access, and program eligibility.

Electronics maintenanceTeam supervisionWork controlDefense sustainment

617,500 jobs in 2024

Source: BLS: First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers · Median $78,300 (May 2024)

Maintenance and Reliability Program Manager

$74k – $190k

5993 Marines who owned maintenance policy, readiness metrics, inspection programs, staffing, budgets, or cross-shop improvement can pursue maintenance or reliability management. The bridge is stronger in aerospace, electronics manufacturing, communications infrastructure, and complex industrial operations than in generic facilities work. Civilian manager roles commonly expect several years of related leadership and may prefer a degree. Prove the match with equipment availability, repeat discrepancies, schedule compliance, labor hours, inventory value, cost avoidance, and documented process improvements.

ReliabilityMaintenance policyReadiness metricsOperations management

17,100 manager openings yearly

Source: BLS OOH: Industrial Production Managers · Median $121,440 (May 2024); broader management benchmark

Technical Project Management Specialist

$60k – $166k

System installations, modifications, site surveys, maintenance transitions, provisioning, publications, and training rollouts can support a technical project path. Civilian employers need more than the word project: identify the objective, schedule, stakeholders, dependencies, technical risk, supply constraints, and delivered outcome. A PMP can strengthen the signal only when the experience meets PMI requirements. This lane fits 5993 Marines who coordinated work across maintenance, operations, supply, engineering, vendors, or multiple sites rather than only supervising a single shop.

Technical projectsSchedule controlRisk managementStakeholders

6% growth 2024-2034

Source: BLS OOH: Project Management Specialists · Median $100,750 (May 2024)

Maintenance Supply and Sustainment Analyst

$49k – $132k

NAVMC assigns 5993 chiefs a real sustainment bridge through parts requisition, provisioning, inventory management, supply planning, and advice on equipment support requirements. Defense, aerospace, manufacturing, and federal employers use analysts to connect maintenance demand with material availability and lifecycle decisions. Do not present yourself as a general warehouse manager. Show how maintenance forecasts, failure patterns, lead times, critical spares, technical publications, or readiness priorities drove supply decisions, and quantify requisitions, inventory value, shortages resolved, or downtime avoided.

SustainmentMaintenance supplyInventory planningLifecycle support

17% growth 2024-2034

Source: BLS OOH: Logisticians · Median $80,880 (May 2024)

Technical Training Program Manager

$76k – $220k

5993 chiefs instruct maintainers, prepare training materials, assess qualifications, and align technical training with operational requirements. That can support technical training manager roles when the Marine owned a program rather than only delivering occasional classes. Most civilian manager jobs expect a bachelor's degree and related experience, so training specialist roles may be the better bridge when those requirements are not met. Quantify learners, courses, qualification rates, remediation, curriculum changes, instructor teams, and the maintenance or safety outcomes the training improved.

Technical trainingCurriculumQualification programsWorkforce development

6% growth 2024-2034

Source: BLS OOH: Training and Development Managers · Median $127,090 (May 2024); degree and related experience commonly required

Section 02

Transferable Strengths: What Civilian Employers See

Maintenance Decisions at System Level

5993 work connects individual discrepancies to system availability, operational capability, staffing, supply, and commander decisions. Translate that into risk-based maintenance prioritization, not a list of MACCS components. Show what changed because of your recommendation.

Multi-Specialty Technical Leadership

The MOS supervises maintainers from several feeder specialties. Civilian employers see a leader who can coordinate different technical disciplines, set standards, inspect work, and resolve competing priorities. Document team size, skill mix, shifts, sites, and qualification levels.

Maintenance and Supply Integration

Parts, provisioning, inventory, publications, and maintenance schedules are one readiness system in 5993 work. That integration is valuable in sustainment and manufacturing. Quantify shortages, critical spares, lead times, inventory value, and downtime prevented.

Technical Communication for Decision-Makers

Advising commanders on capabilities, limitations, reliability, logistics, and spectrum needs translates to communicating technical risk to nontechnical leaders. Preserve the decision context, options presented, recommendation made, and operational consequence.

Program Evaluation and Improvement

Performance evaluation, qualification, problem identification, inspection, and improvement work create a strong reliability narrative. Employers want the baseline, failure or compliance pattern, corrective action, and measurable result rather than a claim that you ensured readiness.

Section 03

Common Mistakes 5993 Marines Make in the Civilian Job Search

Using Rank as Proof of Management Scope

MSgt or MGySgt establishes seniority inside the Marine Corps, but civilian employers still need team size, systems, budget or inventory scope, decision authority, and outcomes. Replace rank-dependent language with the exact operation you led and the evidence that it improved.

Applying to Engineering Roles Without the Required Degree

Deep MACCS expertise does not automatically satisfy an electrical engineering degree requirement or create design authority. Target maintenance, sustainment, test, program, or engineering-technician roles that match your experience, and use an accredited degree path when professional engineering work is the goal.

Treating Clearance Eligibility as Current Access

The MOS requires Secret eligibility and some billets require higher eligibility, but eligibility is not the same as a current clearance, active access, suitability, or employer sponsorship. State only what can be verified and keep sensitive program details out of the resume.

Section 04

Credentials That Strengthen a 5993 Transition

Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional: SMRP

Cost $250 U.S. veteran; $300 member; $470 nonmemberTime Self-paced preparation; three-year certification cycleFormat Application and proctored CMRP examination

SMRP CMRP covers business and management, equipment reliability, process reliability, organization and leadership, and work management. SMRP lists no education or experience prerequisite, but the credential is most persuasive when your resume already proves maintenance-program ownership.

Strong reliability signal · Best for maintenance, asset-management, and sustainment leadership

Project Management Professional: PMI

Cost $405 member; $655 nonmember exam feeTime 35 hours training plus qualifying project experienceFormat Application review and 180-question exam

PMI PMP fits 5993 Marines who can document leading temporary efforts with objectives, schedules, stakeholders, resources, risk, and outcomes. PMI requires 36 months with a four-year degree or 60 months with a secondary diploma, plus 35 hours of project management education.

Best for formal project paths · Pursue only when your experience meets PMI eligibility

Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence: ASQ

Cost $585 exam; ASQ members save $100; $385 retakeTime 10 years experience, including 5 years in decision-makingFormat Application and computer-based open-book exam

ASQ CMQ/OE is a later-career quality and organizational leadership credential. Degree waivers reduce part of ASQ's ten-year experience requirement, but five years must remain in decision-making positions. It is most relevant when your 5993 record includes audits, performance evaluation, policy, corrective action, and measurable improvement.

Senior quality credential · Useful for program, compliance, and operations leadership

Section 05

Resume Translation: From MACCS Maintenance to Civilian Leadership

A 5993 resume should translate the maintenance enterprise, not reproduce a list of systems or staff duties. Connect each military term to the civilian decision, scope, and result.

Before: Senior military language without employer evidence

Served as Electronics Maintenance Chief for MACCS equipment. Supervised Marines, coordinated maintenance, advised leadership, managed supply requirements, conducted inspections, and ensured equipment readiness.

After: Civilian maintenance leadership with measurable scope

Directed a multi-specialty electronics maintenance program supporting [number] command-and-control systems across [sites or units], leading [number] technicians and coordinating preventive, corrective, installation, and modification work. Built risk-based maintenance schedules from operational priorities, discrepancy trends, labor capacity, and parts availability, improving mission-capable availability from [baseline] to [result] or reducing backlog by [percent]. Advised senior leaders on system capability, reliability, maintenance demand, logistics constraints, and technical risk, enabling [decision or operational outcome]. Managed requisitions and inventory for [dollar value] in critical spares, resolving [number] shortages and avoiding [hours or days] of downtime. Standardized inspections, qualification tracking, publications, and technical instruction for [number] maintainers, increasing first-pass qualification or compliance to [percent].

The 5993 Translation Formula

Military term	Civilian translation	Proof to show
MACCS maintenance management	multi-system electronics maintenance planning, work control, reliability, and technical risk management	systems, sites, technicians, availability, backlog, and downtime
Surveying and siting	technical site assessment, installation planning, infrastructure coordination, and acceptance support	sites assessed, installations, schedules, constraints, and acceptance results
Maintenance and supply plans	maintenance forecasting, critical-spares planning, requisition control, and lifecycle sustainment	inventory value, requisitions, lead times, shortages, and downtime avoided
Equipment performance evaluation	reliability analysis, qualification assurance, root-cause identification, and corrective-action tracking	failure trends, repeat discrepancies, audit results, and improvement percentages
Advised commanders	translated technical capability, limitations, cost, schedule, and operational risk for executive decisions	recommendations, stakeholders, decisions, and mission or cost outcomes

Always quantify systems, platforms, sites, technicians, shifts, availability, backlog, inspections, qualifications, inventory value, requisitions, downtime, schedules, and improvement results

Last updated July 2026 using BLS May 2024 supervisor data, BLS Industrial Production Managers, BLS Project Management Specialists, BLS Logisticians, and BLS Training and Development Managers. Credential requirements and fees checked with SMRP, PMI, and ASQ. Classification and duties verified in NAVMC 1200.1L, with the FY27 implementation notice reviewed for future changes.

Section 06

5993 Civilian Career FAQs

What civilian jobs fit Marine Corps MOS 5993?

The strongest matches are electronics maintenance supervisor, maintenance and reliability manager, technical project specialist, sustainment or logistics analyst, and technical training manager. The right level depends on documented team, system, program, budget, inventory, and decision scope, plus any degree or employer requirement.

Does 5993 qualify someone as an electrical engineer?

No. The MOS provides advanced electronics maintenance leadership, not an accredited engineering degree or professional engineer license. It can support engineering-technician, test, sustainment, maintenance, and technical program roles. Engineering positions that require a bachelor's degree or licensed authority still require those civilian qualifications.

How should a 5993 describe clearance on a resume?

State only a clearance status or eligibility that can be verified and is appropriate to disclose. Do not treat MOS eligibility as proof of current access. Employers and government customers separately determine clearance status, suitability, sponsorship, and program access, and the resume should never include classified system details.

What should a 5993 quantify before leaving service?

Capture technicians and specialties led, systems and sites supported, maintenance availability, backlog, repeat discrepancies, inspections, qualification rates, inventory value, requisitions, shortages resolved, downtime avoided, projects delivered, and recommendations that changed a command decision. Those numbers establish civilian management scope.

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Translate MACCS maintenance leadership into a role target with the right level of authority.

CommandPath uses your feeder MOS, systems, clearance status, maintenance programs, staff work, team size, readiness outcomes, supply scope, and education to distinguish supervisor, planner, project, training, and operations-management paths.