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Posted By: RAF
Address:
Contact: 0161 832 5822
Date Posted: 1st Dec 2008
Salary: Excellent
Location: Other
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Views Since Posting: 8
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Use the latest logistics techniques to process the full range of RAF equipment.

Your work

Overview
As a Supplier, you’ll be part of a team handling more than 1.25 million items of RAF equipment – the equipment we need to work wherever we are in the world. That’s everything from the smallest component to complete aircraft, from fuel to clothing.
You’ll have responsibilities at every stage of the supply chain, from buying, storing and handling kit, to distributing it around the world and, eventually, disposing of it. It could be your job to operate IT systems that track RAF assets worldwide. You could ensure that all weapons – from guided missiles to personal rifles – are stored, handled and transported safely. Or you could refuel aircraft from a hydrant system and receive fuel into storage from ocean tankers.
Like most people in the RAF, you’ll probably move jobs every few years, and each job is known as a tour. You could work anywhere in the world:
• outdoors on bulk fuel installations;
• delivering urgently required equipment to the front line;
• in an office, with responsibility for stock control and equipment accounting; or
• alongside the Royal Navy, Army or foreign armed forces.
To do your job you’ll use our sophisticated computer systems, modern computerised accounting techniques, storage methods and mechanical handling equipment. Within your first few years you’ll probably be detached overseas on operations or exercises for anything from a few days to a few months. There are also opportunities to travel overseas as a member of the Deployable Supply Group or the Tactical Supply Wing – spearhead units for UK forces, providing logistic support for operations or exercises.

Your first tour

For your first tour you’ll probably be posted to an RAF base. Here you will continue your training, learning important skills on the job. For example, you’ll:
• receive and despatch goods by air, rail, road and sea;
• store and issue goods correctly; and
• use equipment such as mechanical handling aids, forklift trucks and a variety of logistic computer systems.
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Your training

Recruit training
Your career will start with nine weeks of recruit training at RAF Halton in Buckinghamshire. The course is designed to help you adjust to a military environment. As well as fitness and military training, you’ll also learn about the RAF lifestyle.

Specialist training
The next step is a specialist training course at RAF Halton, which lasts about three months. Here you’ll develop the skills and knowledge you’ll need to do your job, including:
• how the RAF supply chain works;
• how to operate our computer systems; and
• how to receive, store and issue equipment.
You’ll also go on a week-long expedition to help develop your self-confidence, self-discipline, initiative and teamwork.
During your specialist training you’ll be able to enrol for an Apprenticeship, which can lead to the award of an NVQ Level 2 in Distribution, Warehousing and Storage Operations.
At the end of the training course you’ll get your first posting.

Ongoing development
As your career progresses, we’ll continue to train you in the skills you’ll need to take on new responsibilities:
• Information technology. You’ll be trained to use and maintain one of the largest supply computer systems in Europe to keep track of our resources all around the world.
• Fuels, lubricants and gases. You’ll learn to store, move, handle and account for fuels, lubricants and gases – for example, you could learn how to issue aviation fuel to aircraft, or receive fuel into bulk storage tanks from pipelines, road tankers or even ocean tankers. You’ll also learn how to handle pollution spillages to avoid environmental damage.
• Tactical supply duties. Over the course of your career, you could be called on to deliver supplies to personnel operating at the front line. You’ll learn a range of skills, including how to construct and conceal portable fuel installations, and how to use them to refuel aircraft such as Harriers and Chinooks.
• Explosives. You’ll be taught how to pack, store and handle explosives, as well as learning about the regulations governing their transport.
• Dangerous goods. You’ll learn how to prepare, pack and document hazardous equipment for transport by air, rail, road or sea.
• Mobility. You’ll learn how to help load and stow equipment being moved by our transport aircraft, including the Hercules and C17 Globemaster.
You may also have the opportunity to study in order to join professional organisations such as the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, the Institute of Logistics and Transport, the Institute of Petroleum and the Institute of Supervision and Management.
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Your future

Prospects
You’ll initially join the RAF for a period of nine years. After a year you’ll be eligible for promotion to Senior Aircraftman/woman if you pass a trade ability test. Further promotion to the rank of Corporal and beyond is by competitive selection.

Transferable skills
The Apprenticeship, NVQ and recognition from professional organisations that you can earn are as valuable in the civilian world as they are in the RAF – which means that whenever you decide to leave the RAF, you’ll be well placed to find a new job such as:
• supply chain accountant;
• warehouse stock controller; or
• retail purchaser.

Entry requirements

Age limits
17–29
Academic qualifications
GCSE/SCEs at Grade G/6 in English language and maths. You must also have a provisional driving licence.
Entry test
You must pass a test at the AFCO.
Nationality
You must have been a citizen of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland since birth.
Residency
Whether or not you were born in the United Kingdom, you should normally have resided there for the three years immediately preceding your application.
Equal opportunities
The RAF values every individual’s unique contribution, irrespective of race, ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation or social background