Oil & Gas Mechanic/Technician

Aircraft Mechanical and Heavy Rectification Technician - Jan 2008 - Date - Royal Air Force

• Selected as part of a team to recover and dismantle a crash landed aircraft from the California desert during peak temperature conditions. Dismantled, packages and safely transported back to the UK for investigation, modification and rebuild.
• Uses corrective and preventative maintenance procedures as well as bespoke fault diagnostic tools, schematic drawings, rectification and system testing procedures daily.
• Carried out 50% of hydraulic system modifications from start to completion across the fleet.
• Reviews and applies new methodologies to increase productivity within set safety parameters.
• Provides consultant diagnostics/analysis to UK Aircraft based overseas.
• Responsible for record control of all component, engineering and asset life data.
• Produce training analysis, development and delivery of training and induction for all new personnel. Maintains and updates training records for all personnel.
  

• Fleet servicing of Typhoon aircraft in an aircraft hangar environment, ensuring optimum safety and quality assurance standards maintained at all times.
• Performed hydraulic and pneumatic system major disassembly, inspection, rectification, reassembly and functional testing.
• Quality assurance testing of all component and new aircraft, to ensure highest standards of specifications and safety.
• Developed and implemented new training incentives and maintained all training records.
• Led a multi-disciplinary team of Technicians in an aircraft hangar environment ensuring the levels of experience and manning are maintained to safety standards.

• Delivered varying projects across a number of environments to support dismantling, maintenance and modification requirements.
• Applied varying Non Destructive Inspection techniques to include eddy current and PDF.
• Completed an apprenticeship in Aeronautical Engineering

• NEBOSH General Certificate
• NEBOSH Level 6 National Certificate in Oil and Gas Operational Safety
• BOSIET, Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training
• MIST, Minimum Industry Safety Training
• OGUK Medical
• Rope Access Course
  

• HNC Manufacturing Engineering, BTEC
• NVQ Level 3 Aircraft Component Maintenance City & Guilds
• National Certificate Level 3 Aerospace Engineering, BTEC
• Advance Modern Apprenticeship, Aviation
• Key Skills Award Level 2 Communication
• Seven GCSEs (including Maths, English and Science)

• Engine Health Monitoring
• OJT Instructional Techniques
• Typhoon Aircraft Mechanical Q-course

• Basis Environmental Protection
• First Aid (annual)
• Fire-Fighting Appliance Trained (annual)
• Health & Safety Weight & Height Compliancy Training

• ILM Level 3 Award in Effective Management
• ILM Level 3 Cert in Leadership Management
• Junior Management Leadership Course
• Aircraft Technicians Supervisor's Course
• Human Factors and Career Management
• Equality & Diversity Level 2