Ongoing Development
Subsequent tours of duty may see you being employed in a wide variety of areas, including:
• One of the other areas of the Non-Commissioned Controller specialisation.
• As‘ Mission Crew’ on the E-7 Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning aircraft based at RAF Lossiemouth.
• Part of the UK’ s deployable, ground based, command and control unit‘ Number 1 Air Control Centre’ located at RAF Boulmer.
• Tactical ATC – high readiness small teams who deploy ahead of the main force to set up landing zones and airfields worldwide.
• Instructing ab-initio and postgraduate students.
You may also be selected for advancement to intermediate management roles, responsible for supervising teams of specialists. Throughout your career, you should expect operational deployments( generally of up to but not limited to 6 months duration) to a range of locations worldwide, together with ad-hoc shorter detachments to locations such as Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Lithuania, Japan, Gibraltar, Canada, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and the US.
Transferable Skills
As an Air Traffic & Weapons Controller, you will obtain a range of transferable skills including advanced leadership( CMI Accredited), change and project management and the opportunity for further academic development. These skills and your experience could equip you for a variety of civilian jobs that involve dynamic supervisory or management responsibilities, such as working within the transportation division of the Public Sector or within an
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