Job: General Technician (Mechanical), The Royal Air Force - Liverpool

General Technicians Mechanical are engineering technicians who repair and maintain aerospace support equipment and specialist vehicles essential to the smooth running of the RAF. You can work on everything from aircraft ground power units and arrestor systems to fire engines and tracked vehicles.

You’ll be employed in workshops equipped for extensive maintenance and rectification, and use technically advanced test equipment for fault diagnosis and analysis of engine management systems.

Like most people in the RAF, you’ll probably move jobs every few years, and each job is known as a tour. Most of your tours will be on RAF bases, where the precise nature of your work will depend on the activities at that base. Within your first few years, you’ll probably be detached overseas for anything from a few days to a few months.

Entry qualifications

Age limits

16–29

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.

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Physical requirements

Any history of respiratory problems or skin sensitivity may affect your chances of joining the RAF as a General Technician (Mechanical).

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.