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Squid is correct. While all submarine officers qualify the same watch stations (supervisory watch in the nuclear engine room, officer of the deck, etc.) and stand watch in rotations, they all have different billets at various times.

Junior officers (on their first sea tour) will hold positions such as electrical officer, main propulsion assistant, reactor controls assistant, communications officer, sonar officer, etc. There are typically about 10 (plus or minus) junior officers on board at a time holding various jobs that they switch around every year or so.

On your second sea tour, you are a department head (Squid mentioned the different DH roles). A DH stays in that position their entire time on that submarine for about 3 years, before rotating back to shore duty. The Navigator is one of those department head positions, and while you still stand watch as Officer of the Deck at sea or Ships Duty Officer in port, the navigator is responsible for navigation (of course), ensuring charts are updated and safe to pilot from, all communications systems, top secret control, and a good amount of other things.

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@Bill – the Engineer officer is almost always the third highest ranking officer on board; the billet requires you to be a LCDR, so even when the Nav makes LCDR (if he even does during his DH tour…which sometimes doesn’t happen because promotions get pushed off to shore tours sometimes now), the Eng still in most cases has more time in rate.

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@OP: “So summed up, on your 2nd sea tour as a Sub. Officer, you are assigned either Executive Officer, Commanding Officer, Engineering Officer, Sonar Officer, Communications Officer, Weapons Officer, or Navigator?”
No. Some clarification:

The career pipeline of a typical submarine officer goes like this:

-Graduate from your commissioning source (NROTC, Naval Academy, OCS) as an Ensign

-Go through 12 months of nuclear power training and ~2 months of submarine school

-Arrive at your first submarine as a junior officer, and spend ~32-40 months there. You’ll serve as a division officer for multiple divisions over that time. Your first division will be in the Engineering Department, and you have to be an engineering division officer for at least one year. Here, you might be Electrical Officer, Chemistry/Radiological Assistant, Reactor Controls Assistant, Damage Control Assistant, or Main Propulsion Assistant. After a year in engineering, you could then take over a different division in the Weapons or Navigation departments. These include the division officer for Sonar division, Fire Control division, or Torpedo division (usually you’ll be the Assistant Weapons Officer, overseeing all of them). You could also be the Communications officer, the Assistant Engineer, or Assistant Navigator. The division/s you are responsible for will change over time, and will depend on the needs of the boat, how many other junior officers are there, etc. The ranks here are Ensign, Lieutenant Junior Grade, or Lieutenant.

-Go to your shore tour (~2 years). Most junior officers get out of active duty after their first shore tour…if you stay in after this, it’s almost always to make it a full career.

-Spend 6 months at Submarine Officer Advanced Course

-Go to your second submarine as a Department Head for ~3 years. Here, you’ll either serve as the Engineer Officer, Navigator, or Combat Systems Officer (Weapons Officer). Ranks here are Lieutenant and Lieutenant Commander

-Go to your second shore tour (~2 years)

-Attend schools to prepare to be an Executive Officer

-Go to your third submarine as the Executive Officer for ~1.5-2 years. Lieutenant Commander.

-Go to your third shore tour, in addition to courses to prepare you as a commanding officer.

-Go to your fourth sea tour as a Commanding Officer for ~2.5 years. This rank is Commander. You’re in for about 20 years at this point.

-Go to shore tour to take major command (rank Captain) of any of a variety of significant installations or shore-based commands.

(This is for a fast attack submarine. Ballistic missile submarines are similar, but vary slightly).

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