CHAPTER 14
TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATION
AND SUPERVISION
The higher you ascend on the enlisted rating ladder,
the more valuable you become to the Navy. This is
understandable since you have more experience in your
rating, have probably attended several Navy schools,
and your attitudes are well-oriented to Navy life. In a
sense, you are now in a position and better qualified to
impart your knowledge and experience to the personnel
serving under you. Your bearing, actions, and
disposition will be under scrutiny not only by your
seniors but also by your subordinates.
As a supervising EA1, your job is a many-sided
task. It involves the procurement of necessary
equipment, repair parts, and other materials; planning,
scheduling, and directing work assignments;
maintaining an adequate file of appropriate
publications; interpreting and complying with current
directives; collecting engineering data; making progress
reports; carrying on a comprehensive and effective
training program; interviewing subordinates, using the
Personnel Readiness Capability Program (PRCP)
guidelines; and drafting official correspondence.
This chapter discusses many of the duties and
responsibilities of the EA1 supervisor. These
discussions center on those topics that, for the most part,
are considered to be unique to the Engineering Aid
rating; in other words, those administrative and
supervisory topics related specifically to supervising the
engineering division and assisting the management
division of the operations department in a Naval Mobile
Construction Battalion.
Obviously, there are many other subjects that relate
to the Navy or the Seabees, in general, that you must
also be thoroughly familiar with to be an effective
supervisor. Those topics, such as leadership principles,
principles of administration, correspondence
procedures, and so forth, can be found in the Navy’s
military requirements books that are required study for
advancement in rating. General topics related to the
Seabees as a whole, such as the PRCP program, are
covered in the NCF/Seabee PO1 training manual
(TRAMAN). Some other topics that you should become
familiar with, such as facilities maintenance
management, project site approval requirements, and
special project and military construction (MILCON)
project submittal procedures, are also not discussed in
this TRAMAN; however, a listing of reference sources
concerning these and other topics is contained in
appendix IV of this TRAMAN.
By now, you should be very familiar with the
organization of a Seabee construction battalion and
with the battalion’s operations department. Therefore,
we will begin our discussion of your responsibilities
by first discussing the management division and the
ways in which you will be expected to assist the
management division. Then we will discuss your
duties and responsibilities as they relate to super-
vising the engineering division of the operations
department.
MANAGEMENT DIVISION
The management division of the operations
department may be headed by the assistant operations
officer or by the operations chief, acting in an advisory
capacity to the operations officer and the operations
staff. This division is sometimes referred to as the
administrative division of the operations department.
The management division is normally staffed by the
operations Yeoman and the timekeeper. Sometimes
these positions are filled by EAs.
The management division collects, compiles, and
analyzes all information related to the construction
operations. This information is used in the preparation
of construction operations reports, including the
Deployment Completion Report, Monthly Situation
Report, and any other special reports required by
higher authority. The engineering division will be
required to assist in the preparation of these reports
by supplying technical information concerning
construction projects. Some reports may be compiled
from existing records; others may require special
investigation and research.
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