Join us for an opportunity to chat to an engineer who can help you as part of this year’s Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award.

This week’s engineer is Captain Jon Reed who currently the Adjutant of 2 Close Support Battalion, The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME), based in Leuchars, Fife. In previous roles he has been responsible to Armoured Infantry Battlegroups for the maintenance and repair of all the vehicle and equipment, this ranged form pistols to main battle tanks and everything in between.

He has also lead soldiers responsible for all recovery elements of exercises from Afghanistan, Canada, Germany and the UK. Before joining the Army he left school at 16 and completed a modern apprenticeship in engineering design and production, this job saw him learn all basic engineering principles such as milling, turning, welding, CNC machining and production line techniques and then apply them to produce vehicle parts for heavy vehicle systems ranging from buses and lorries to earth moving and military equipment.

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