Rank
Supply Chain Rating (entry)
Role
Sources, tracks and coordinates delivery of stores and equipment across a global supply chain.
Civilian
First-line control execution
Basic inventory and asset control.
Three Lines Model
◆Evidence appendixOfficial role descriptions → GRCPublic sources only
Independently verified skills mapping
Skills translation for service leavers usually runs on trust: take my word that the job maps to what I say it maps to. This runs on the Royal Navy's own published role descriptions instead, rank by rank, trade by trade, checked against public civilian control frameworks.
My earlier table, Same Control, Two Vocabularies, translated my own eighteen years in one trade. Useful for me, but it asks the reader to trust a stranger's self-report. This page tries to remove that step: instead of describing my own job, it pairs the Royal Navy's own published recruitment role descriptions, the same ones a school-leaver reads before applying, with the nearest civilian control language, rank by rank.
It starts with Logistics because that is the trade I can check against my own experience. Engineering, Warfare and Healthcare & Medical follow, built the same way but without a serving logistician's gut-check behind them: treat those three as a first pass, and see the caution below.
This also fits inside a bigger shift already under way inside Defence: the Pan-Defence Skills Framework, referenced in JSP 822, is building a single skills vocabulary across the services. That framework's detail is held in internal MOD systems and is not a public dataset, so nothing here draws on it beyond its published existence. Everything below comes from pages anyone can read at royalnavy.mod.uk.
Logistics & Personnel
Checked against my own experience
Rank
What the role does (official)
Civilian control language
Rank
Leading Hand
Role
Runs a stores account: sourcing, allocating and accounting for equipment under personal custody.
Civilian
First-line control ownership
Asset custody controls.
COSO Control Activities
Rank
Petty Officer
Role
Moves into line management: mentoring junior logisticians and owning section-level compliance.
Civilian
Management oversight
Control environment component.
COSO
Rank
Logistics Officer (Lt / Lt Cdr)
Role
Coordinates supply chain, personnel and financial management concurrently across the organisation.
Civilian
Second-line oversight
Enterprise risk management; cross-functional governance.
IIA Three Lines Model
Sourced from royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/professions/logistics-and-catering-personnel, the Supply Chain Rating and Logistics Officer role pages (accessed September 2026).
Engineering
First pass, not yet gut-checked by a rate
Rank
What the role does (official)
Civilian control language
Rank
Engineering Rating (entry)
Role
Completes daily rounds checking equipment to keep the ship operational, and finds solutions when systems fail.
Civilian
Preventive control execution
Scheduled inspection and sign-off before use.
ISO 9001 clause 8
Rank
Petty Officer Engineering Technician (Section Head)
Role
Leads engineering projects, takes responsibility for sophisticated equipment, and trains junior engineers.
Civilian
First-line technical ownership
Sign-off authority; control activities.
COSO Control Activities
Rank
Engineering Officer (Lt / Lt Cdr)
Role
Leads a department, decides how to resolve complex technical risk under pressure, and answers to the Commanding Officer when something fails.
Civilian
Second-line risk oversight
Engineering governance; operational risk.
Operational resilience
Sourced from the Engineering Rating, Direct Entry Petty Officer Engineering Technician and Engineering Officer role pages at royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/roles (accessed September 2026).
Warfare
First pass, not yet gut-checked by a rate
Rank
What the role does (official)
Civilian control language
Rank
Warfare Rating (entry)
Role
Collects and processes data, intelligence and communications, and produces concise, accurate reports under pressure.
Civilian
Risk monitoring
Management information; threat and exception reporting.
Enterprise risk management
Rank
Warfare Officer (Lt / Lt Cdr)
Role
Makes strategic and tactical decisions in real time, and is accountable for the safety and effectiveness of the whole team.
Civilian
Second-line oversight
Incident and crisis decision-making.
Operational resilience
Sourced from the Warfare Rating and Warfare Officer role pages at royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/roles (accessed September 2026).
Healthcare & Medical
First pass, not yet gut-checked by a rate
Rank
What the role does (official)
Civilian control language
Rank
Healthcare & Medical Rating (Qualified)
Role
Maintains clinical competencies against professional registration (Health and Care Professions Council), and takes on leadership responsibility while progressing.
Civilian
Regulated practice
Professional standards compliance.
Clinical governance
Rank
Petty Officer (Qualified)
Role
Takes full charge of equipment and a clinical team's day-to-day standards.
Civilian
First-line control ownership
Control environment component.
COSO
Rank
Healthcare & Medical Officer
Role
Takes charge of all personnel's medical needs onboard, deployed anywhere in the world.
Civilian
Second-line oversight
Clinical governance and assurance.
Clinical governance frameworks
Sourced from the Healthcare & Medical Rating (Qualified) and Healthcare & Medical Officer role pages at royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/roles (accessed September 2026).
Limits of this table
The Logistics row is checked against my own service. Engineering, Warfare and Healthcare & Medical are built from the same public recruitment pages, but I have not done those jobs, and recruitment copy is written to attract applicants and is thinner and more polished than an internal job specification. Treat those three trades as a starting point to correct, not a finished mapping.
It is not a compliance mapping. No organisation should treat a row here as evidence that a requirement has been met: the frameworks named are pointers to where the equivalent control is written down, not claims of conformity.
A caution applies to my own argument: naming a control is no evidence that it worked. The page helps someone ask better questions about their own experience, and it gives no licence to assert more than has been earned.
Help correct or extend it
Anyone who served in Engineering, Warfare or Healthcare & Medical and finds the middle column does not match what the job involved, or who wants a trade added, can send in a trade and rank: this page gets more accurate every time someone who has held the job corrects it, and that is the only way the mapping earns the word "verified" beyond Logistics.