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  • May 2018 - Present


Royal Air Force (RAF)

• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• CH-47 Avionics Manager and Rectfication Controller

  • Oct 2014 - May 2018

  Assigned as the Rectfication Controller I was responsible for managing a shift of 80 multi disciplined engineering personnel and the maintenance of ten CH-47 Chinook Aircraft. This included the maintenance planning, scheduling and prioritising of all personnel and assets to achieve a stringent flying program of four tasking aircraft and two standby aircraft.Maintenance planning was carried out to 200 flying hours and for a calendar period of one year, all large scale or depth maintenance identified had to be planned and a suitable slot in which to remove the particular aircraft from the flying program had to be identified, with appropriate plans made to ensure no break in the flying output. This also required constant communication with external agencies to arrange for engineering specialists to be scheduled to carry out maintenance or rectification work in accordance with the maintenance forecast of the aircraft.My duties also required me to regularly undertake a multi trade range of technical inspections of safety critical systems, including the full scope of system components, the components security of attatchment and correct fitment and further emmergent areas and work to be inspected all followed by the requirement for witnessed functional testing of the effected systems. Show less

• Training and Deployment Manager

  • Dec 2013 - Oct 2014

  As the Training and Deployment Manager I was responsible for 8 instructors, the planning and scheduling of curriculum, the maintenance and quality assurance checking of the training and competency records for 600 multi disciplined engineering personnel; the planning and implementation of all engineering detachment planning, including site surveys, and training requirements for personnel, I also held responsibility for the manning of any short notice detachments, planned exercises and two standing unit deployments, one of which I carried out the full training and deployment cycle planning and which still uses the systems and planning arrangements which I created.As part of my role as the training manager I was tasked to bring the training syllabus inline with a new government standard, which previously did not effect military training curriculum or objectives, this project involved the complete re-writing of all CH-47 Chinook training material and re-scheduling of all future lesson plans to accommodate the new curriculum to be delivered. This project was scheduled to take 8 months and included a serious, two month, disruption to the training schedule. Due to my re-structuring of the planned work to re-write the curriculum my team and I finished the project in just six months and did not impact the delivery of training, meaning no disruptions and a continuous flow of training output. Show less

• E3-D Sentry Avionics Supervisor

  • Apr 2012 - Dec 2013

  Whilst serving at 8 sqn I worked as an engineering supervisor of twelve producers maintaining the E3-D Sentry, I workeded as a maintenance supervisor across all avionics systems and was fully conversant with all aircraft avionics systems and all avionics mission systems.As a part of my duties I was tasked by management to become the individual in charge of the organisation's tool store, an inventory worth in excess of 1.5 million GBP. The tool store required a great deal of modernisation and work to bring it into compliance with the latest regulations, this involved a complete re-writing of all Tool and Test Equipment issuance and control procedures, calibration and servicing arrangements for TTE to be streamlined and for the creation of a completely new selection of tool kits for use on the aircraft in line with the maintainers requirments. The project took 6 months and as a result the tool store reached compliance with aviation tool control regulations, all gaps in the tooling inventory were filled, any gaps in the TTE holding due to servicing or calibration were greatly reduced and a stock level of 95%, from 64%, was continually achieved and the newly designed tool kits worked better for the maintainers which helped to reduce the instances of lost or damaged tools. Show less

• CH-47 Avionics Supervisor

  • Jan 2008 - Apr 2012

• Tornado F3 Avionics Technician

  • Jan 2004 - Jan 2008

• Trainee Avionics Technician

  • Jul 2002 - Jan 2004