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Weapon Technician
- Posted By: RAF
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- Contact: 0161 832 5822
- Date Posted: 1st Dec 2008
- Salary: Excellent
- Location: Other
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Arm fighting aircraft and RAF personnel.
Your work
Overview
Weapon Technicians are responsible for all the weapons used by the RAF – from the bombs and missiles on our aircraft to the personal weapons carried by RAF personnel.
It’s a job with a great deal of responsibility – the equipment you handle can be extremely dangerous and safety is crucial.
Early on in your career, you could be arming aircraft with bombs, torpedoes and guided weapons, or loading rocket and gun installations. You’ll work with pyrotechnics and maintain, repair and replace gun pods, bomb carriers and rocket launchers.
Weapon Technicians also take care of and issue the weapons used by units and the men of the RAF Regiment, including rifles, pistols and machine guns, as well as heavier weapons such as mortars.
As a Weapon Technician, you’ll have other responsibilities too. You could maintain ejection seats, work on ground defence systems or even be trained as a bomb disposal expert.
Like most people in the RAF, you’ll probably move jobs every few years, and each job is known as a tour. You will normally work at a flying station – an RAF base that is home to one or more squadrons of aircraft. You’ll also have opportunities for travel overseas when your skills are needed to support our aircraft around the world.
Your first tour
For your first tour, you’ll probably be posted to an RAF base, where you’ll be involved in storing and handling different types of weapons. You could also work in hangars and workshops alongside experienced technicians on more complex maintenance and repair work.
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.
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Specialist training
The next step is a specialist training course at RAF Cosford, near Wolverhampton, which lasts about a year. You’ll be enrolled on an Advanced Apprenticeship, the Technical Certificate element of which is a BTEC National Award in Engineering, delivered entirely in training – as is the Key Skills element of the award. Once you’ve completed the course, you’ll get your first posting.
Your specialist training, along with experience you gain on the job, could lead to the award of an NVQ Level 3 in Aeronautical Engineering Maintenance – Weapons, which will signal the completion of your Advanced Apprenticeship.
Ongoing development
As your career progresses, we’ll continue to train you in new skills. There are also opportunities to undertake management and leadership training and to join relevant civilian professional associations.
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, once you have met the promotion criteria laid down in the trade career plan.
Transferable skills
The qualifications 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, for example:
• aircraft maintenance and safety technician;
• explosives technician; or
• electro-mechanical engineer.
Entry qualifications
Age limits
16–29
Physical requirements
If you are colour-blind or have a history of asthma or skin sensitivity, you will not be able to join the RAF as a Weapon Technician.
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Academic qualifications
You need at least GCSEs/SCEs at Grade C/3 or equivalent in English language, maths and an approved science/technology-based subject. If you do not hold these qualifications, there may still be opportunities for you if you show the appropriate potential in the selection tests.
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
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