Fuel Support Equipment Mechanic

Join a skilled defence team as an FSE Mechanic, helping keep essential military equipment mission-ready.

The Role

Based in Fairford, UK you’ll get to work alongside our dedicated workforce on a UK Military base.

Prior Fuel Equipment experience will be required, although additional training will be provided on site.

This role is a fantastic chance for you to further develop your skills as a FSE Mechanic, working on a diverse range of military equipment in an exciting environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Applies knowledge of the design, system function, and interrelation of units comprising the system; physical properties and hazards associated with the handling of various types of petroleum fuels, chemicals, and alcohol; pipe fitting skills, mechanical skills.
• Makes periodic inspections of units to detect and correct leakage, corrosion, faulty fittings, and malfunction of mechanical units, meters, and gauges such as R-11s, C300 series, and FORCE Equipment.
• Inspects electrical wiring, switches, and controls for safe operating condition, grounding, and adjustment.
• Repairs, replaces, and adjusts malfunctioning equipment to restore operating condition specified in regulations and repair manuals.
• Adjusts power boosters, drive chains, and tension devices.
• Solves complex maintenance problems by interpreting layout drawings, specifications, schematics, diagrams, and operating characteristics of vehicles/equipment and components.
• Uses technical orders, commercial manuals or automated systems to determine maintenance procedures and research parts.
• Disassembles, adjusts, aligns, and calibrates gauges and meters.
• Troubleshoots, adjusts, repairs, and testes vehicles/equipment.
• Lubricates and repacks valves; lubricates pumps; replaces gaskets and seals; corrects pumping equipment misalignment; services filter air separators and checks meters for correct delivery and calibration.
• Properly annotates all maintenance performed on prescribed forms for data collection and historical record purposes.
• Removes corrosion and repaints surfaces.
• Uses hand and power tools such as torque wrenches, and meters, bearing and gear puller, specific gravity scales, bench grinders, hydraulic presses, pipe threading machine, cutting torch, and other test equipment.

Deployment Package and Additional Benefits

Our recruitment team will be happy to discuss the deployment package and additional benefits in more detail. Here is a general outline*:

• Extremely competitive rates of pay.
• Working hours Monday to Friday.
• Progression and opportunities for promotion.
• Holiday entitlement
• Training given to enhance your skillset.