Pete Smith Email & Phone Number

Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

Lincoln, United Kingdom

Waddington

Retired

RAF Waddington

• Responsible for all project management activities associated with the delivery of the numerous aircraft maintenance and support projects, in a very high tempo environment, in accordance with the customer’s Contract and.
• Planning the maintenance and… Show more Responsible for all project management activities associated with the delivery of the numerous aircraft maintenance and support projects, in a very high tempo environment, in.
• Planning the maintenance and support activities to meet the customer’s objectives
• Ensuring effective Project Management in accordance with contract scope, on time and within budget.
• Preparing realistic plans and tracking activities against the project schedule
• Providing regular and accurate reports to stakeholders as appropriate.

RAF Coningsby

• Managed a team of 16 highly skilled personnel. Responsible to the Type Airworthiness Authority (TAA) and CAMO for maintaining the Typhoon Operators Maintenance Schedule (OMS) and Reliability Programme. The job was.
• Monitoring the Typhoon 4-nation base-line maintenance schedule
• Providing evidence-based change recommendations to the TAA and the CAMO
• Continually monitoring the… Show more Managed a team of 16 highly skilled personnel. Responsible to the Type Airworthiness Authority (TAA) and CAMO for maintaining the Typhoon Operators Maintenance Schedule (OMS) and.
• Continually monitoring the effectiveness of the OMS
• Evaluating and analysing emergent work

Head of Section for all mechanical aspects on the RAF Sentry fleet, including: engines, structures, mechanical systems, special-to-type ground support equipment, safety and role equipment. With delegated airworthiness responsibility for maintaining the integrity of the systems outlined above I authorised maintenance and lifing policy, produced and approved.

As Head of Section, working remotely from the main organisation at Abbey Wood, the job involved: providing specialist R&M/RCM assurance & advice/guidance, including trending and mean time between failure analysis, to project managers and desk officers across the Air domain; monitoring consumption against demand plan and carrying out 6-monthly project.

RAF Wyton

Responsible for the business management, life extension programme and for managing the specific Tornado ground support equipment (GSE). In order to carry out this role I held airworthiness and financial delegated authority. Specific responsibilities included: co-ordination of branch finances; project management of several GSE projects; carrying out.

RAF Wyton

• Working as a mechanical engineer within the Hercules Integrated Project Team I was responsible for:
• Liaison with prime equipment contractors and in-service agencies
• Organising and attending national and international engineering/airworthiness meetings
• Resolution of technical issues
• Progression of aircraft modifications and SI(T)s
• Authorising technical data changes

RAF Wyton

• Working as a mechanical engineer within the Tornado Integrated Project Team I was responsible for:
• Liaison with prime equipment contractors and in-service agencies
• Organising and attending national and international engineering/airworthiness meetings
• Resolution of technical issues
• Progression of aircraft modifications and SI(T)s
• Authorising technical data changes

RAF Wyton

• Employed within the Tornado Integrated Project Team, as a mechanical support engineer, I was responsible for:
• Liaison with prime equipment contractors and in-service agencies
• Attending national and international engineering meetings
• Resolution of technical issues
• Progression of Ground Support Equipment upgrades
• Providing evidence to underpin technical data changes, concessions and extensions

• Responsible for all Quality Assurance and Health and Safety aspects on the Major maintenance of the VC 10 aircraft.
• Monitoring standards through system audit
• Co-ordination of COSHH
• Accident Reporting
• Promoting Health & Safety consciousness and interest through suitable media

• I started my career as an aircraft apprentice, which was followed by a number of years, in the RAF working on a variety of aircraft at all levels of maintenance. Some of the activities involved were:
• Working hands-on, including structural repairs, system diagnostics and component replacements.
• Aircraft handling
• Maintenance supervision
• Carrying out independent static and functional checks on flight control systems
• Rectification Control