TEST EQUIPMENT CALIBRATION AND REPAIR TECHNICIAN
Total years of experience :17 years, 2 Months
TEST EQUIPMENT CALIBRATION AND REPAIR TECHNICIAN
2013 - Present
Repairing and calibrating a variety of precision high value capital electronic test equipment for the engineering department of RAF Menwith Hill Earth station, such as spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, reflection test sets through to power meters and sensors. Ensuring that all test equipment is calibrated to in service standards ensuring quality control is at it's highest standard at all times. Also when required, to fault find to component level and replace faulty components and parts where necessary to return equipment to a serviceable standard.
As a ground electronics technician I was responsible for a wide variety of High value capital electronics from Radar and satellite Ground station equipment, Telecommunications equipment to computer networks and airfield navigation aids.
SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS AND RF SUPPORT TECHNICIAN
2005 - 2013
As part of a small engineering team working as a pair on shift and also on my own, responsible for the correct and accurate operational activity of the satellite earth station including: ● logging and fault reporting.
● tracking and reporting on problems and analysing the results to minimise any future problems.
● servicing, repairing and maintaining all the associated equipment for a satellite ground station that carries time critical data to ensure reliable data communications.
● Investigation and rectification of problems that may limit the operational capacity of the satellite.
● Ensuring all spares stock is kept up to date in accordance with customer requirements and hastening orders where necessary.
● Working closely with equipment vendors to help complete new project installations when required.
● Liaise with external agencies to help maintain infrastructure, to diagnose and to rectify faults where necessary.
● Regularly work on shift as well as filling in short notice to cover sickness and other absences
RADAR TECNICIAN
2002 - 2005
As a member of a small engineering team responsible to the shift supervisor, ensuring all tasks, routine maintenance, unscheduled maintenance and associated paperwork is completed in a timely manner and to a high standard.
● Regularly liaise with engineering control to implement fore-casted scheduled servicing in accordance with the engineering maintenance plan.
● Carry out corrective and scheduled maintenance ensuring maximum availability for the UK air defence Radar picture.
● Keep accurate records on faults to ensure the fault/s gets rectified and to hasten the logistics chain to ensure parts arrive in a timely manner.
● To maintain various different electronic systems within the air defense environment including the Radar console displays, Park-air radio's, COSSOR Single and multichannel radio's.
● Repair maintain and service a variety of HF, VHF & UHF communications equipment.
APPRENTICE PRINTER ENGINEER
1997 - 2001
As an apprentice printer engineer responsible for learning how to fault find on various makes of desktop printer, to learn the basics of fault finding and to establish good workshop practices including tool control.
● On completion of training responsible to the team leader to accurately diagnose faults on a multitude of printers and to repair them giving them a company warranty of 12 months.
● To accurately assess the printers for economical feasibility and if beyond economical repair to scrap them, strip them of serviceable parts, service those parts and inventory the items back into the stores holdings.
● Identified a repetitive fault within a particular make of printer and implemented a change in the way it was repaired by forming a repair team to replace one transistor on a PCB instead of buying new PCB's. This saved the company in excess of several thousand pounds each week.
● On leaving the company had become the subject expert for 2-3 particular makes of printers and was regularly being contacted by highly trained service engineers for fault repair advice.
NVQ 3 in Electronics and Electronic Engineering. NVQ 3 in servicing complex systems in the workshop. City & Guilds 2393-10, 2382-10, 2392-10 & 2377-12 GCSEs in English, Math and Science. Various military Q annotations (military equivalent qualifications)