Plan, design, and manage construction of naval facilities and infrastructure. Lead Seabee units in combat and contingency engineering operations.
Officer - Engineering Degree Required, PE License Preferred
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Civil Engineer Corps officers manage construction, facilities and public works, and many tours put you leading Seabees on actual projects. A public works tour means running maintenance, utilities, contracts and facilities for an installation with a real budget and a real backlog. With a construction battalion you lead sailors building roads, structures and camps, often deployed and working with whatever arrived on the last ship. Contracting tours have you administering construction contracts, resolving claims and inspecting completed work against the specifications you enforced. Deployments and overseas assignments are common, and the work satisfies in a plain way because you can point at what you built.
You apply engineering to construction management: scheduling, estimating, quality assurance, site work, utilities and the contract administration that governs all of it. An engineering or architecture degree is the entry requirement, with a commission through direct accession, NROTC or Officer Candidate School. The Navy supports professional engineer licensure and qualifying assignments meet the experience requirement, which is a genuine long-term career asset. Leading Seabees adds heavy equipment operations, expeditionary construction and the logistics of building far from any supply house. You also learn facilities management, energy systems and the budgeting cycle that funds infrastructure work year to year.
Construction teaches you to hold a standard, because a slab poured wrong stays wrong for the next thirty years. You grow comfortable making decisions with cost and schedule consequences that are visible to everybody on the site. Leading tradespeople builds respect for craft knowledge and the habit of listening to whoever is holding the tool. Field deployments grow resourcefulness, since the material you planned around is frequently not the material you receive. Engineer Corps officers tend to be practical, straightforward people who would rather walk a site than sit through a status meeting.
Professional engineer licensure plus construction management experience is a strong, durable civilian credential in a field that keeps hiring. General contractors, engineering firms, utilities, ports and developers hire former Civil Engineer Corps officers into project and program management. Facilities and infrastructure management for corporations, universities and municipalities is another well-trodden path out of this designator. Federal engineering careers with agencies that build and maintain public works value the experience directly, and the clearance helps. Graduate work in engineering management or business pairs naturally with the record, and education benefits cover much of the cost.
You start the morning in the field office reviewing project drawings, safety plans, and the day's construction schedule with your Seabee crews. Your work spans designing facilities, inspecting job sites, managing contractors, and leading construction battalions on airfields, camps, and utilities projects. In contingency environments you plan expeditionary builds and coordinate equipment and materials to keep the mission on schedule.
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$77,814–$144,392
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Plan, design, and manage construction of naval facilities and infrastructure. Lead Seabee units in combat and contingency engineering operations.
Civil Engineer Corps officers manage construction, facilities and public works, and many tours put you leading Seabees on actual projects. A public works tour means running maintenance, utilities, contracts and facilities for an installation with a real budget and a real backlog. With a construction battalion you lead sailors building roads, structures and camps, often deployed and working with whatever arrived on the last ship. Contracting tours have you administering construction contracts, resolving claims and inspecting completed work against the specifications you enforced. Deployments and overseas assignments are common, and the work satisfies in a plain way because you can point at what you built.
You apply engineering to construction management: scheduling, estimating, quality assurance, site work, utilities and the contract administration that governs all of it. An engineering or architecture degree is the entry requirement, with a commission through direct accession, NROTC or Officer Candidate School. The Navy supports professional engineer licensure and qualifying assignments meet the experience requirement, which is a genuine long-term career asset. Leading Seabees adds heavy equipment operations, expeditionary construction and the logistics of building far from any supply house. You also learn facilities management, energy systems and the budgeting cycle that funds infrastructure work year to year.
Professional engineer licensure plus construction management experience is a strong, durable civilian credential in a field that keeps hiring. General contractors, engineering firms, utilities, ports and developers hire former Civil Engineer Corps officers into project and program management. Facilities and infrastructure management for corporations, universities and municipalities is another well-trodden path out of this designator. Federal engineering careers with agencies that build and maintain public works value the experience directly, and the clearance helps. Graduate work in engineering management or business pairs naturally with the record, and education benefits cover much of the cost.
Officer - Engineering Degree Required, PE License Preferred. This is the catalog's listed requirement, not an individual eligibility decision. Confirm the current standard and any exceptions with the service.
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Deployment likelihood: Moderate*
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