Transportation Corps Duty description
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88H Cargo Specialist[icon icon="arrow-down" color="#2a818e" bordercolor="#2a818e"]
88K Watercraft Operator[icon icon="arrow-down" color="#2a818e" bordercolor="#2a818e"]
88L Watercraft Engineer[icon icon="arrow-down" color="#2a818e" bordercolor="#2a818e"]
88M Motor Transport Operator[icon icon="arrow-down" color="#2a818e" bordercolor="#2a818e"]
88P Railway Equipment Repairer[icon icon="arrow-down" color="#2a818e" bordercolor="#2a818e"]
88T Railway Section Repairer [icon icon="arrow-down" color="#2a818e" bordercolor="#2a818e"]
88U Railway Operations Crewmember [icon icon="arrow-down" color="#2a818e" bordercolor="#2a818e"]
88Z Transportation Senior Sergeant[icon icon="arrow-down" color="#2a818e" bordercolor="#2a818e"]
Additional Duties[icon icon="arrow-down" color="#2a818e" bordercolor="#2a818e"]
20 Level
Assigns cargo handlers, signal and winch operators to duty stations. Provide technical guidance to subordinates. Inspects cargo, supervises cargo checking and hatch operations, controls aircraft loading and unloading (to include helicopter external sling loading operations), oversees railhead tie down crews, directs container stuffing and unstuffing, plans warehouse storage, and manages crane operations. Supervises operator maintenance for cargo handling equipment such as cranes and forklifts. Enforce safety practices and documentation procedures.
30 Level
Plans work schedules for terminal operations, airfield arrival/departure control groups, (to include passengers) and container/trailer transfer points. Utilizes stowage plans, aircraft load plans and other cargo handling forms. Issue materiel handling equipment, nets, slings, ropes, cables, wire, rope and other cargo operations gear. Enforce safety practices. Prepares, consolidate, and reviews administrative, personnel, and technical reports covering unit activities.
40 Level
Supervises and manages work force. Coordinate administrative matters, communications activities and training programs. Prepare tactical plans and training materiels. Provide staff supervision, policy, and guidance for personnel and cargo movement by air, rail, motor and water transport.
20 Level
Provides supervision and technical guidance for subordinates. Maintain vessel charts, publications and orders. Keep the vessel log book. Navigate a boat or other watercraft. Beaches and retracts landing craft. Tow vessels and barges in harbors and inter-coastal waterways.
30 Level
Instructs subordinates in watercraft and amphibian operational practices, procedures and techniques. Supervise the embarking and disembarking of troops from the vessel. Establishes and enforces safety procedures. Schedules shipboard watches. Prepares vessel load plans. Schedules and oversees deck maintenance. Supervises maintenance of life saving and firefighting equipment.
40 Level
Applies Inland and International navigation rules while operating vessels. Conducts crew drills and supervises training on the vessel. Disseminate information on weather and navigational aid changes. Maintain the vessel station bill and crew list. Operate the Mark 27 gyrocompass. Process operations and intelligence information. Receive, store, distribute, turns in vessel supplies, equipment, and food. Administer the vessel mess functions to include all money exchanges, headcount records, daily cook worksheets, and food utilization reports. Coordinate the operation of collective lighter control points (LCPs).
20 Level
Provides supervision and technical expertise for subordinates performing their duties. Prepare marine vessel equipment for operation. Starts, operates, troubleshoots and secures vessel engines. Inspects, services, adjusts, replaces, repairs and overhauls engine components, throttle controls, accessory drives, boiler and piping systems, vessel steering mechanisms, electrical and wiring assemblies, cooling and lubrication systems and vessel hulls for general upkeep. Computes fuel requirements and documents vessel fuel usage. Compiles and maintains the engine room records.
30 Level
Supervises fire fighting, damage control, sanitation and pollution control procedures aboard a vessel. Establishes and enforces engine department safety practices, supervises shipboard watches. Oversees, instructs and provides technical advice in the maintenance of engines, electrical systems, cooling systems, lubrication systems, refrigeration systems, fuel systems, pneumatic systems, power and drive trains, steering systems, boilers and piping, hydraulics and general vessel upkeep. Conducts crew or section drills and training. Prepares maintenance SOPs and organizes the work of the maintenance shop.
40 Level
Instructs and supervises marine engine department personnel in all systems maintenance. Oversee posting of vessel log books, forms and records. Assign personnel to duty positions. Schedules equipment for calibration. Establish maintenance priorities. Prepares and reviews shipyard specifications. Prepare marine vessel historical reports and records, preventive maintenance schedules and records, materiel readiness reports, equipment improvement recommendations and unsatisfactory/faulty equipment reports. Records required and completed modifications.
20 Level
Supervises and provides technical guidance to subordinate in accomplishing their duties. Organizes and participates in convoys. Dispatches vehicles; verifies vehicle logbooks. Receives and fills requests from authorized persons for motor transport. Compiles time, mileage and load data. Operate the Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Transport (HEMTT), Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET), and Palletized Loading System (PLS) vehicles to include performing self recovery operations.
30 Level
Supervises drivers performing preventive maintenance Check, and services (PMCS) on vehicles. Operate in the truck terminal as a squad leader. Trains new drivers and manages the driver sustainment training program. Plans, organizes, and operates a motor vehicle convoy. Perform convoy route reconnaissance. Commands a convoy march unit or serial. Supervise transporting of all types of cargo. Posts and controls guards used to prevent pilferage and vandalism of cargo and equipment. Takes charge of vehicle recovery. Supervise personnel preparing vehicles for deployment.
40 Level
Provides professional support and technical guidance to all Army soldiers requiring motor transport. Plans, manages, and monitors unit motor transport operations as the truckmaster. Establishes and organizes the unit motor park. Prepares and implements the truck company security and defense plan. Prepares map overlays. Receives and distributes highway motor transport missions. Assembles and prepares highway reconnaissance data for motor convoy transport. Supervises and directs unit dispatching of vehicles. Coordinates engineer requirements to support a truck battalion.
20 Level
Provides supervision and technical guidance for subordinates. Researches, interprets, prepares and coordinates actions pertaining to travel entitlements. Function as the customs officer for shipment releases in overseas theaters. Operate as quality control NCO for commercial movement contracts. Monitors all freight, cargo and materiel shipments to ensure accountability; identifies and reports problem areas within the traffic management system to prevent additional costs, losses and damage. Conduct briefings for unit moves. Requests, coordinates and monitors movement schedules and programs; ensures transport capability is appropriate, cost effective and meets mission requirements. Checks and inspects equipment blocking and bracing. Prepares and consolidates transportation movement reports. Operates automated data processing equipment to document movement information, conducts research, monitors movements, inspects commercial contracts and responds to shipment inquiries, discrepancies and routine movements transactions.
30 Level
Conducts a training program for subordinate personnel. Supervise the operation of a cargo and materiel documentation unit, a movement control branch or section, a break bulk point/terminal warehouse, a trailer transfer point, a port operations unit, an air terminal section and the installation personal property and passenger travel section. Evaluates work techniques and procedures for all functions. Maintain liaison with air, rail, highway and water transportation facilities. Initiates, researches and proposes necessary changes to the traffic management system for cost effectiveness and mission requirements. Supervises customs officers and reviews customs procedures in overseas theaters. Prepares, consolidates and reviews technical, personnel and administrative reports and forms covering transportation matters (e.g., unit movement, personal property, passenger travel, freight/cargo and materiel movement reports). Checks, reviews and consolidates movement requirements; ensures appropriate transport capability and prepares movement schedules. Assist in planning transportation requirements for logistical support. Supervise any diversion, reconsignment or transfer of personnel, freight and materiel shipments for all modes of transportation.
40 Level
Supervises cargo documentation and movement control units for all transportation modes. Supervise freight, cargo, personal property and passenger travel at installation level. Analyzes, evaluates and proposes changes to the Defense Transportation System. Formulates and reviews documentation on technical traffic management functions. Devises and reviews movement programs for logistical support functions in a theater of operations. Serve as the transportation liaison representative between other military services, commercial agencies and host nation support elements. Advisor for the preparation of operation orders where transportation is required. Review DoD contracts and agreements with host nations. Verify the accuracy of movement control documents. Evaluate sites for depots, truck terminals, railheads, beachheads, air terminals and water ports/terminals. Determine transportation capabilities and limitations of units. Perform as staff NCO in military traffic management agencies. Monitors quality controls that ensure commercial transportation services meet contract obligations. Monitors and documents all customs discrepancies and reports them to appropriate authorities. Ensures allocation of transport capability is appropriate to accomplish each mission in a cost effective manner.
20 Level
Supervises and provides technical guidance to subordinates performing their duties. Inspect railway cars prior and subsequent to maintenance. Perform initial terminal airbrake tests for outbound trains. Repairs draft gears. Supervise a team salvaging cars or rehabilitating captured enemy rolling stock. Enforce safety practices.
30 Level
Calculates supplies, parts, and equipment necessary to restore locomotives and cars to efficient operating condition. Supervise personnel in methods and techniques of repair to mechanical components of locomotives. Set work accomplishment priorities and enforces shop safety practices. Perform initial and final inspection of locomotives and cars scheduled for maintenance. Resolves technical problems encountered in locomotive and railway car maintenance.
40 Level
Perform final inspections of locomotives and rolling stock. Determines shop priorities based on guidance from train movements section and resource availability. Posts and maintains equipment status reports.
20 Level
Provides technical expertise to subordinates performing their duties. Consults timetables and trains dispatchers to determine train movements and employs standard signals to warn operating crews of dangers. Determines need for construction machinery and arranges for its movement to the repair site; outlines repair work and coordinates with other type repair units. Supervise clearance of obstructions and combustible materiels from track and surrounding areas. Supervise the installation and repair of power supply third rails.
30 Level
Provides technical expertise to subordinates performing their duties. Consults timetables and trains dispatchers to determine train movements and employs standard signals to warn operating crews of dangers. Determines need for construction machinery and arranges for its movement to the repair site; outlines repair work and coordinates with other type repair units. Supervise clearance of obstructions and combustible materiels from track and surrounding areas. Supervise the installation and repair of power supply third rails.
40 Level
Oversees all section gangs within a rail division. Prioritizes and coordinates maintenance of way activities within a rail division. Coordinate materiel and equipment requirements.
20 Level
Supervises and provides technical guidance to subordinates performing their duties. Operate the locomotive's controls and safety appliances. Observes interprets, and executes instructions received from signal towers, switches, other trains and trainmen. Coordinates train movements; complies with operating timetable, rule book, and other specific instructions. Receives requisitions for empty cars and authorizes movement to locations for loading. Complies performance and delay reports for each trip and turns in locomotive inspection report showing equipment defects which require correction.
30 Level
Supervises handling, classification and switching of cars and trains in railway yards; maintains record of daily movement of cars. Rebored receives, writes and transmits train orders; keeps crews informed of changes inroad condition and schedules. Review operation and inspection reports. Investigates train schedule delays and recommends corrective action. Assign locomotive operators and crewmen.
40 Level
Establishes liaison with using agencies and representatives of civilian and military railroads. Supervise receipt and transmission of telephonic and telegraphed messages relating to train movements. Review time sheets to keep abreast of each scheduled train passing through territory. Investigates accidents and unusual operating incidents and recommends corrective action. Assist in providing staff supervision of subordinate unit railway operating activities.
Supervises the operation and control of movement for personnel and cargo by air, rail, motor transport and water. Manages and coordinates the operation and maintenance of Army watercraft. Serves as the principal NCO associated with SQI M in transportation companies. Assists in the coordination and implementation of operations, administration, training programs and communications activities. Accounts for location, employment and deployment of organic operating equipment and maintenance activities. Plans and lays out a maintenance shop and facilities. Coordinates transportation actions with subordinate and serviced activities. Consolidates, prepares, reviews and processes regular and special reports of command transportation and watercraft activities.
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