FSR Candidate: RA101022
Trade & Discipline: Mechanical Engineer
Location: North East
Profile
Experienced mechanical engineer, employed in the British Army, with a background in out inspections, safety inspections, maintenance and repair of various vehicle platforms. Able to keep calm in high stress, fast moving environments and can produce key deliverables to tight deadlines. Focussed with an eye for detail and always willing to learn in order to keep abreast with changing policy, legislation and technology.
Key Skills
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Qualified mechanic.
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Maintains good working knowledge of diagnostic techniques
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Maintains good working knowledge of safety standards
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Excellent time keeping and time management
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Adaptable with experience working as a team, as an individual and as a team leader
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Excellent communication
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Methodical
Selected Achievements
Engineering
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Carried out vehicle MOTs as well as military role specific inspections for various platforms such as field generators, mobile radio repair facilities and mobile machine shops. This ensured that the fleet was compliant to UK road and safety standards and allowed the fleet to be maintained at high readiness to deploy anywhere in the world at short notice.
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Carried out regular container safety checks on the fleet of shipping containers that forms the foundation of mobile repair facilities and therefore made them safe and legally compliant to be transported via road, rail and sea.
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Conducted out inspections ensuring that work completed was carried out correctly and complied with standards.
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Inspected and tested aviation fuel and the aviation refuelling delivery system aboard a Royal Fleet Auxiliary Bay Class ship. This included testing and inspecting the safety breakaway couplings. This ensured that the fuel was safe to use and would be delivered safely to refuelling helicopters, and should the helicopter have to abort whilst refuelling, it can do so without further endangering the crew.
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Carried out diagnostics, preventative maintenance and repairs on various vehicle and non-vehicle platforms in order to maintain fleet availability for operational use.
Management
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Headed the inspections department, scheduling and carrying out inspections on all the various platforms within the battalion and ensuring that they were legally compliant as well as ensuring that platforms were able to fulfil their military roles.
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Managed a team of four people responsible for the maintenance and repair of 67 platforms ranging from portable offices and mobile repair facilities to light vehicles, generators and heavy goods vehicles. This kept the fleet operationally available to be deployed anywhere in the world.
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Managed a team of three people and produced two fleets ready to be deployed for a large scale, high priority deployment to Europe within a tight timeframe during a period where the Army had lost the contract for its spares.
Career History
2017 – Present: British Army, Mechanical Engineer
2007 – 2014: British Army, Mechanical Engineer
Education
VTA Level 3 - 2022
NVQ 2 Performing Engineering Operations - 2010
Intermediate Certificate in Engineering and Technology (Multi Skill) - 2010
3 A Levels - 2007
9 GCSEs A to C (including maths, English and double science) - 2005
Professional Development
Engineering Technician IMechE
Army Vehicle Safety Inspector
Shipping Container Safety Inspector
MAN SV Maintainer and Diagnostics
Field Generator Maintainer
Mine Clearance Vehicle Maintainer
PAC 24 Maintainer
Instructional Defence Trainer
Additional Information
Full, clean driving license (Cat B, C, C+E)