Managing critical maintenance cycles and inspections for department vehicles, ensuring high equipment availability and readiness for operations. Managing the section's 25 tradesmen and the technical office.Managing maintenance cycles effectively, achieving an 85% equipment availability rate against the expected 75%. Ensuring fleet is inspected and maintained to DVSA standards.Improving professional development pathways, resulting in a 100% increase in tradesmen achieving next-level qualifications with a turnover of 4-5 personnel every quarter.Streamlining administrative and operational processes, significantly enhancing job completion efficiency.Implementing the re-writing all risk assessment within the workshop, ensuring the establishment remains compliant with UK legislation.Managing fleet rotation and regeneration with effective input into a four-year business plan budgeting for over £1M.Initiating, planning and ensuring a surge exercise was introduced ensuring fleet always remains effective. Coordinating suitably qualified and experienced staff, vehicle fleet/equipment, and spares access all lined up. Liaising with several contacts in the UK and required planning up to 1 year in advance while remaining flexible.Ensuring suitably qualified staff filled key roles throughout all departments, identifying training deficiencies and initiating programs to remove these deficiencies.Implementing and supporting effective working practices and systems as required to improve work scope delivery.Leading by example and maintained high standards within a hugely diverse environment.Assisting others, decision making, implementing the required process resulting in the best outcome. Ensuring quality assurance of all work scopes are maintained, and all work is performed in accordance with company policies and the health and safety at work act.Carrying out all work scopes to high standard as well as following all the health and safety rules and regulations.

Managing all administrative aspects of over 115 staff. Ensuring the appropriate level of engineering competence and training was attained.Ensuring that the health and wellbeing off all staff was monitored and recorded using proven information systems and delivering monthly reports and presentations to the organisation.Organising and developing training to prepare soldier for the next level promotion, preparing individuals for artificer training.Continuing own coaching and mentoring skills working with local cadet forces to develop leadership and problem-solving skills using STEM approved techniques.Deploying as engineering lead on operations to Kabul. Coordinating all engineering and movement of equipment between X3 locations.Closing down completely x1 location for withdraw of troops from Afghanistan ensuring all equipment and vehicles are correctly prepared and registered for safe air passage back to the UK. Ensuring that over 100 vehicles and engineering equipment is successfully flown out of theatre prior to cessation of all OPs in country.Advising senior staff on all engineering and vehicle capabilities whilst ensuring all vehicles operated safely under UK legislation and all risks were held at the correct level.Due limited resources and lack of conventional testing equipment developing an alternative brake testing method for the main armoured vehicle in theatre to ensure safety of all personnel.Ensuring the health and safety requirements and regulations are in place to avoid any potential risks in a working environment and keeping everyone safe from any risks or hazards.Working co-operatively with colleagues, being receptive to change and can embrace new ways of working and supporting overtime requests as required by the business needs.Responding promptly and effectively to changing circumstances, planning for contingencies and managing priorities.

Directing all aspects of vehicle and equipment maintenance ensuring the adherence to the highest standards and support unit operations. Selected for a deployment as senior engineering team leader, establishing maintenance and repair facilities across x2 location in theatre and ensuring all safety and current UK policy was being applied across operational theatres.Inspecting and maintaining 260 vehicles, achieving 100% compliance with military standards.Implementing training programs that increased the technical capability of department personnel by 35%.Ensuring 100% adherence to safety regulations, resulting in a reduction in safety incidents.Efficiently managing resources, ensuring timely completion of all tasks, and supporting wider unit readiness.Attending level 7 coaching and mentoring through Lancaster university STEM scheme.Selected for 8-month deployment to OP SHADER Iraq/Syria managing x3 locations over the country with limited staff and limited resources while maintaining fleet availability.Establishing a vehicle workshop at one location to move all maintenance and repair indoors out of the 50-degree heat.Working closely with US military to support Iraqi forces receiving a US commendation for training and developing junior US engineering staff.Handling multiple tasks simultaneously, maximising work efficiency and productivity.Sharing best practice when undertaking all work scopes and that a high-quality output is delivered consistently.

Managing all administrative aspects of over 115 staff. Ensuring the appropriate level of engineering competence and training was attained.Ensuring that the health and wellbeing off all staff is monitored and recorded using proven information systems and delivering monthly reports and presentations to the organisation.Managing all engineering training for all 120+ staff by identifying the operational needs and equipment and developing training to ensure these were met.Completing Foxhound Armored vehicle maintenance and repair instructors course and delivering training to other units personnel prior to the vehicles coming into the unit.Deploying on Initial OP ANEMOI, Falkland Islands and establishing key infrastructure and spares delivery routes into theatre, ensuring that vital engineering repair work could be carried out with the correct equipment and vehicles.Working closely with Royal Air Force and civilian contractors ensuring that critical spares and equipment were expedited to the workforce with minimal delays.