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....The Technical Paper is something like 5000 or so words to demonstrate that for IEng you have engineering bachelors degree academic knowledge, or for CEng that you have postgraduate (or Masters) engineering academic knowledge - and this means theory. This must be matched with appropiate grad/postgrad experience.
Not having any experience of the Railway world, I was assuming that some sort of supervisory technicians job would be all I could get when I left the RAF initially. If I could go in at Engineer level straight away, I would be happy to do so, unfortunately, without testing the water somewhat, it is difficult to know what route to take.
Network Rail run a cross-over scheme for Engineering personnel with a minimum of a HNC and 5 years of experience - would this be a suitable path to go down?
Another route I was looking at was a company called Engineering Service Group based at Toton Depot, Notts. they take graduates with Engineering degrees and fastrack you to CEng, however, it seems they want me to have an accredited degree, so I'm thinking get IEng or at least as far as I can with it before I leave the forces before I apply?
I don't think the technical report will be a problem for me IMHO, I'm quite academic when I want to be.
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