Career Planning

1. Career Planning In your Ensign and Lieutenant (JG) years, you will be assigned to an NMCB. You are expected to obtain your Seabee Combat Warfare Qualification at the battalion and to prepare yourself for professional registration. In your Lieutenant years, you should strive for some diversity of experience and obtain your professional registration as an engineer or architect. You should look for increasing levels of responsibility and at least one tour as a battalion company commander. As a Lieutenant Commander, you should have obtained warfare qualification and professional registration. You should continue to seek diversity and increased levels of responsibility and should seek a tour as either a battalion S3 or XO. This will most fully qualify you for promotion to Commander and consideration for battalion command.

2. Critical Factors for CEC Career Success • Performance • Sustained superior performance contributing to supported command mission • Sustained success, effectiveness & efficiency supporting mission will show in PSR • Most important factor in career success • Experience • Breadth of experience expands capacity to serve as member transitions to senior grades • LCDR and below: Vertical growth through NCF leadership • Senior grades: Expanding experience in Joint/Contingency Engineering, NCF Staff, and Command • Qualifications (Professional) • Warfare Qualification - SCW or other • Professional registration • Graduate and Joint Professional Military (JPME) ed. • Acquisition attainment • Records (Maintenance) • Official records at Navy Personnel Command (NPC) • RODC: ROMIS at PERS 4413 • Mentorship PEQR Performance, Experience, Qualifications, Record

3. SELRES Civil Engineer Corps (CEC) Career Progression Seabee Combat Warfare Qualification CBOPS DCOI CECOS Warfare Qualification AC1 AC2 AC3 Acquisition Attainment APC Member Grad School/JPME Continuing Education Professional Engineering / Registered Architect License EIT NCARB File Professional Registration ENS – LTjg NCFSU NMCB PHIB CB LT NMCB PHIB CB NAVFAC OICC CHB/ELSF CSS LCDR NMCB XO/S3 NCF STAFF NAVFAC OICC CSS NRCEM/JT STAFF CDR CO NMCB CSO NCR NCF STAFF NAVFAC/OICC STAFF ELSF STAFF NRCEM/JT STAFF Flag DEP CDR FIRSTNCD DEP CDR NAVFAC CAPT CO NCR 1NCD CSO NCF STAFF CSO NAVFAC CO/COS OICC NAVFAC/OICC STAFF BR MGR NRCEM/JT STAFF Experience Seabees FEC Combat Service Spt Staff/Joint Years 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 6 1

4. 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Major CMD – 24 mos Major CMD – 24 mos Staff – 36 mos Staff – 36 mos Staff – 36 mos Staff – 24 mos Typical Career Path Comparisons YEARS CEC- RC YEARS CEC- AC NAVFAC STAFF / OICC STAFF / CEM STAFF / FLEET STAFF NCR CDRE 1NCD/Exped. / COS/CSO • General Notes: • OICC – Facilities Engineering • CEM & Fleet Staff – Contingency Engineering Mgmt NMCB CO/NCR OPS/1NCD/Exped. NAVFAC STAFF / OICC STAFF / CEM STAFF / FLEET STAFF 48 Mo. FEC OPS/XO – 24 mos FEC XO/OPS – 24 mos NMCB CO – 24 mos NMCB CO – 24 mos Training – 2 mos Training – 2 mos PWO – 36 mos PWO – 36 mos OPS/XO/NCR/ S3 / XO / NCF STAFF / CSS NAVFAC / OICC / CEM / FLEET STAFF • LCDR Expeditionary: • Highly desired for • Expeditionary O5 Command OPS/XO OR NCR 24 mos Training – 1 mo OPS/XO – 24 mos Training – 1 mo PW DH Tour 30-36 mos Shore Tour – 30 mos Co CDR/NCR or Exped. Staff 60 mos NAVFAC / OICC Co CDR / Exped. Staff – 36 mos • Ensigns: • Direct Commission Officer (DCO) attends Direct Commission Officer Indoctrination (DCOI) (2 wks) followed by CECOS Basic (2 wks) • Ensigns go to NMCB billets PG SCHOOL – 12 mos Shore Tour – 24 mos PG SCHOOL – 12 mos PW Div Off Tour 30-36 mos Div Off – 24 mos Ass’t. Co CDR/ Det OIC/Dept. Staff 36 – mos NMCB / PHIB CB / NCHB / CSS Shore Tour – 24 mos Plt LDR – 18 mos CECOS BASIC – 3 mos CECOS BASIC – 3 mos CEC Current CEC Goal CECOS BASIC-2-ATs