Careers Career Paths U.S. Air Force Civil Engineering Jobs Share PINTEREST Email Print Stocktrek Images / Getty Images Career Paths US Military Careers Technology Careers Sports Careers Sales Project Management Professional Writer Music Careers Media Legal Careers Government Careers Finance Careers Fiction Writing Careers Entertainment Careers Criminology Careers Book Publishing Aviation Animal Careers Advertising Learn More By Rod Powers Rod Powers Air Force NCO Academy Rod Powers was a retired Air Force First Sergeant with 22 years of active duty service. Learn about our Editorial Process Updated on 02/09/19 The Civil Engineering Career Field encompasses: Mechanical and electrical activities to install, operate, maintain, and repair base direct support systems and equipment; electrical facilities; electrical power generation and distribution; and heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration systems and equipment, and their controls. Structural and pavement activities, including construction and maintenance of structural facilities and pavement areas; maintaining pavements, railroads, and soil bases; performing erosion control; operating heavy equipment; structural and metal fabricating, construction, and maintenance; engineering specialists; and operations functions. Utilities systems functions such as operation, maintenance, repair, and construction of plumbing, water, and wastewater systems and their components; fuel system maintenance; and pest management. Fire protection, including preventing, controlling, and extinguishing all types of fire occurring on the ground, and performing related rescue, first aid, and property preservation; potential of fires involving facilities, operational processes, wildlands, aerospace vehicles, weapons, and hazardous or other materials; operation and operator maintenance of all types of crash fire rescue and support vehicles; tools and equipment; and services in support of base emergency disaster operations. Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) activities, including detecting, identifying, rendering safe, recovering, and destroying United States and foreign explosive, incendiary, and nuclear ordnance; supervising EOD functions and resolving technical problems of EOD and the procedures of neutralizing and disposing of improvised explosive devices; and performing as specialized members of the disaster response force. Readiness activities, including personnel training to accomplish the primary mission under the handicaps imposed by enemy attack and by acts of man and nature; training in detecting, measuring, and decontaminating nuclear, biological, and chemical contaminants; providing and using proper protective equipment; and day-to-day operations requiring establishing, training, and equipping a disaster response force to handle all types of peacetime accidents and requests for assistance from the civilian community. The Civil Engineering Career Field is a contingency related career field. Personnel serving in this career field may participate in recovery operation as a result of natural and man-made disasters, or be subject to deployment and employment in hostile environments created by terrorism, sabotage, or chemical, biological, or conventional warfare. Individuals should have knowledge of contingency skills such as first aid procedures, field sanitation and hygiene, work party security, repair and construction methods, bed down procedures, personal weapons, chemical warfare defense, and explosive ordnance reconnaissance.Excluded from this career field are functions of maintenance and repair of ground support equipment that are included in the Manned Aerospace Maintenance Career Field (2A) and medical care of injured personnel (other than emergency first aid) which is included in the Medical Career Field (4X). The following is a complete listing of AFSC for the Civil Engineering Career Field. 3E0X1 - Electrical Systems 3E0X2 - Electric Power Production 3E1X1 - Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, & Refrigeration 3E2X1 - Pavements & Construction Equipment 3E3X1 - Structural 3E4X1 - Utilities Systems 3E4X2 - Liquid Fuel Systems Maintenance 3E4X3 - Pest Management 3E5X1 - Engineering 3E7X1 - Fire Protection 3E8X1 - Explosive Ordnance Disposal 3E9X1 - Readiness