Naval Combat Officer

OFO Code: 542102

Last checked 7 October 2026

PATHLENS

1. Occupation identity

Official description
Seaward defence members provide specialised seaward combat related military services.

More official OFO detail

Specialisations: Combat Officer (Marine), Combat Officer (Subsurface Vessels), Combat Officer (Surface Ships)

Conducting amphibious and small boat operations
Navigating ship and vessels
Guarding and protecting naval institutions and other defence force bases
Maintaining personal arms and ammunition
Maintaining safety and security of personnel and equipment on board or attached to the ship
Maintaining combat readiness state of vessels, personnel, weapons, explosives, sensors and communication equipment
Providing clearance diving, underwater repairs, ordnance disposal and demolition, and search and rescue services
Collecting, correlating and disseminating sensor information to create an accurate and timely tactical pictures
Employing and operating surface/subsurface-based defence systems, shipboard weapons and other advanced specialist military weapons and equipment
Collection, reporting and dissemination of intelligence information

Demand evidence unavailable

No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.

PathLens does not fall back to legacy specimen demand flags when governed evidence is unavailable.

A national demand signal is not a promise of a vacancy in your town.

No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.

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Qualification evidence pending.

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National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.

No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.

DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact.
DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment.
Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone.
QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review.
Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim.
SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.