Lee Forbes McLauchlan

Experience

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  British Army

  Jul 2008 - Aug 2015

  Electronics Technician

  June 2012 – Present (6 Close Support Battalion REME) Junior Manager / Senior Technician • Volunteered for multiple equipment courses to make myself as much of an asset as possible for the up-coming tour of Afghanistan• Worked as a junior production manager, directing a team of 12 multi skilled technicians in various disciplines.• Inspected and signed off junior Technicians work.• Ensured all work was carried out effectively, to the highest standard possible within any time restraints given.April 2013 – October 2013 (6 Close Support Battalion REME – Afghanistan)Independent Senior Technician• Individually flown around Helmand Province to fix a vast variety of equipment in different, often very hostile locations. • Responsible for the install, programming, maintenance and removal of life saving camp alarm systems in ISAF occupied areas of Afghanistan• Fault diagnosing, repairing and maintaining high spec, mission critical, surveillance camera equipment• Lead a team of 5 responsible for repairing, testing and calibrating large scales of equipment used to detect hidden improvised explosive devices October 2010 – June 2012 (The Light Dragoons Forward Reconnaissance) Junior Technician • Providing diagnosis and repair on vehicle electrics, including technical failure diagnoses and assistance on thermal imaging combat sights. • Expected to deliver an 80% equipment capability and maintain this in demanding environments and operations; either overseas or within the UK. • Often I was the sole technician in the squadron with 15+ combat reconnaissance vehicles. • I deployed to BATUS Canada as key member of a Forward Repair Team (FRT) consisting of multiple trade skills. This found me doing electrical fault finding and repair often in austere conditions to make rapid failure diagnoses and repair, often with limited tools and materials. Show less

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  BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION (PROJECTS) UK LIMITED

  Aug 2015 - Jul 2018

  Team Lead

  Exam Team – Team Leader Dec 2017 – Present Ran a team of 6 responsible for carrying out service-critical, mileage & time based examinations of GWR's electrostar 387 fleetCoordinated with site staff daily, in order to plan work around when certain safety isolations had to be put in place or any train movements were being carried out.Responsible for coaching and signing off less competent technicians work.Ensured all work carried out was done so in accordance with strict depot health and safety procedures. Adhered to all technical publications, drawings and proceduresCommissioning Technician Aug 2015- Dec 2017Worked as a key member of a very small team commissioning a large fleet of Electrostar trains for different rail companies.Provided daily safety critical inspections, fault diagnosis, repair and maintenance of the Electrostar fleet, following fault reports, using technical publications and using a fluke meter.Worked in a very strict safety conscious engineering environment with often very tight time constraints.Interacting on a daily basis with the customer representative to overcome any issues raised.Worked in a day/night shift rotation Show less

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  Siemens

  Jul 2018 - now

  Maintenance Technician