Boatswain’s Mate: civilian jobs and transferable skills
Coast Guard BM Boatswain’s Mate experience builds transferable skills in equipment operation, safety, team leadership, supervision, training, operations management, scheduling, regulatory compliance, preventative maintenance, emergency response, and law enforcement. CivLaunch currently matches 16 open civilian jobs to this specialty, including Line Service Supervisor at Hill Aircraft, Production Supervisor at LMI Aerospace, and Delivery Coordinator Supervisor at LMI Aerospace.
About the BM specialty
Navigates and operates Coast Guard boats and cutters, serving as coxswain in charge of the mission and the safety of the crew. Handles seamanship tasks such as mooring, towing, anchoring, and deck equipment operation, maintains deck gear and small boats, trains crews, and may conduct law enforcement boardings. Holds more command leadership roles than any other rating.
Ranked by how many of your skills each job uses. Strong matches share the most.
Line Service Supervisor
Hill Aircraft · Atlanta, GA
Strong Match
Flight Operations
5+ years
Line service supervisor at the Hill Aircraft FBO in Atlanta, leading technicians who fuel, tow, marshal, and handle baggage for business aircraft. Runs shift safety briefings, assigns and checks work, trains new staff, keeps shifts staffed, plans ramp parking and hangar space, tracks fuel farm inventory and quality checks, and verifies inspection paperwork. Hourly, full time.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to equipment operation, safety, and team leadership.
Production supervisor at Sonaca North America in Auburn, Washington, running a manufacturing department. Plans daily work from production orders and schedules, holds production meetings on metrics, fixes delays and cost problems, builds the training program, evaluates staff, runs self-audits against quality procedures, and leads corrective action and lean projects. Pays $85,000 to $95,000.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to safety, team leadership, and supervision.
Delivery coordinator supervisor at Sonaca North America in Washington, Missouri. Hires, trains, and schedules the team that tracks customer orders through the plant, answers delivery questions, keeps past-due and recovery plans current, holds or splits jobs, flags critical parts and bottlenecks at daily meetings, and works with scheduling, warehouse, shipping, and quality. Manufacturing background and Excel skills preferred.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to team leadership, supervision, and training.
Operations manager leading a multi-shift circuit card assembly operation: managing supervisors and technicians, safety, training programs, continuous improvement through yield and throughput metrics, and root cause corrective action.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to safety, team leadership, and supervision.
First-shift manufacturing supervisor at Piper Aircraft in Vero Beach, Florida. Leads a crew building aircraft to Piper specs: sets daily goals with leads, assigns workers to the schedule, trains staff, handles evaluations and discipline, decides rework or scrap, solves assembly problems with engineering, and heads off part shortages. Five years of fabrication or sheet metal preferred.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to safety, team leadership, and supervision.
Modification supervisor at the Empire Airlines repair station in Hayden, Idaho. Runs the hangar lines doing structural and composite repairs and modifications, staffs and schedules technicians and leads, keeps projects on schedule and budget, coordinates parts and inspections, and updates customers. Needs an A&P with three years of experience and two years supervising; $32 to $47 an hour.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to safety, team leadership, and supervision.
Shares 5 of your 11 skills:
Safety
Team Leadership
Supervision
Scheduling
Regulatory Compliance
FAA A&P certificate required
Requires: FAA certificate under FAR Part 65; valid driver license
Production team leader at the GKN Aerospace plant in Garden Grove, California, which makes aircraft windows and canopies. Runs daily shift priorities and staffing, leads safety briefings and lockout checks, tracks quality, scrap, and delivery, leads problem solving and lean improvements, and coaches and reviews employees. Needs a high school diploma, five years in manufacturing, and ITAR eligibility.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to safety, team leadership, and supervision.
Second-shift manufacturing supervisor at Piper Aircraft in Vero Beach, Florida. Leads assembly crews building aircraft parts, assigns work and staffing to the schedule, trains and evaluates employees, handles discipline and leave, works fit problems with engineering, decides rework or scrap, heads off part shortages, and records labor time and payroll. Five years of aircraft assembly or mechanic work preferred.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to safety, team leadership, and supervision.
Working lead for Jet Aviation's aircraft maintenance team at Point Mugu. Plans mechanical tasks, reports test status, assigns technicians, runs engines, handles inspections and repairs, and checks records against repair station and FAA standards. Requires an FAA A&P and five years of heavy maintenance on mid-size or larger aircraft.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to team leadership, supervision, and training.
Customer service representative at the Cutter Aviation FBO in Prescott, Arizona. Assists aircraft owners, crews, and passengers, books reservations, sends fuel and catering orders to line service, bills for services, resolves complaints, drives crews around the airfield, and keeps radio contact with arriving aircraft under FAA and TSA rules. Needs one to three years of customer service. $19 an hour.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to safety, operations management, and scheduling.
Second-shift production supervisor for the grinding department at Beaver Aerospace & Defense in Livonia, Michigan. Leads machinists doing precision ID/OD, centerless, and thread grinding, schedules the work, reads drawings and sets methods and tooling, fixes grinder problems, checks parts with gauges and CMM, and coaches staff. Needs five years each of grinding and supervision. Pays $85,000 a year.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to safety, team leadership, and supervision.
Charter coordinator in the Cutter Aviation operations center in Phoenix. Quotes and schedules charter trips, plans crew and passenger details, arranges catering and ground transport, tracks flights, collects payments, and serves as ground security coordinator, with on-call nights and weekends. One to three years in aviation preferred; Part 91 and 135 knowledge and a pilot certificate a plus.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to safety, operations management, and scheduling.
Customer service manager at Hartzell Engine Technologies in Montgomery, Alabama. Leads the customer service and technical support teams, owns quoting, pricing, order entry, and post-sale support, sets service standards and metrics, links inside and outside sales with operations, drives process improvements, and reports results to senior leaders. Needs a bachelor's degree and six years of customer operations including leadership.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to team leadership, supervision, and training.
Maintenance supervisor for three Essex Industries plants in St. Louis. Leads technicians maintaining production equipment, boilers, HVAC, and buildings, shifts the team toward preventive maintenance, tracks downtime and backlog, keeps equipment records and PM schedules, orders parts, runs the safety committee and investigates accidents. Needs technical college and two to five years of industrial maintenance; CFC certification for HVAC work.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to safety, team leadership, and supervision.
Senior welder operating electron beam, orbital, and TIG welding equipment on precision space and defense components; sets up and maintains welders, inspects welds under microscope, leads the work cell, and trains technicians.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to equipment operation, team leadership, and training.
Production planning and control manager and site master scheduler at Sonaca North America in Washington, Missouri. Builds program master schedules and capacity plans, leads schedulers and delivery coordinators, runs the site's sales, inventory, and operations planning, reschedules the shop to hit customer dates, and flags bottlenecks early. Bachelor's or equivalent, five years of scheduling, and SAP.
Why this matched
Your experience maps to team leadership, supervision, and operations management.
Shares 4 of your 11 skills:
Team Leadership
Supervision
Operations Management
Scheduling
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
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