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I'm disillusioned with civilian engineering and am idly wondering whether I've left it too late for the military. The short version of my resume is:
PEng in Ontario, fields of practice are electrical and software. BSc in Electronic & Computer Engineering (1986), MSc in Computing (1999) with my dissertation being on the subject of safety critical software. I have nearly 28 years of engineering experience in the automotive, nuclear, defence sectors with a strong bias towards large scale system engineering and safety management. In this time, I have had both project management and man-management / leadership roles managing multi-million dollar projects and teams ranging in size from 3 - 30.
In parallel with my civilian career, I spent 20+ years in the UK Naval Reserve as a NCM in the Tactical Communications, and later Communications and Information Systems specialisation finishing as CPO. In this role I undertook a wide range of training in Communications, Sea Survival, Leadership and Instructional Technique as well as being employed at sea in an operational role, and ashore as an instructor at the Communications School. Once in Canada, and once I became a citizen, I joined the CIC (2012), and am now a Lt(N) working with a Sea Cadets Corps.
My questions are:
1. Is it too late for me?
2. What roles would be available for a direct entry with this level of experience?
3. I would anticipate that a PLAR would be required for civilian and reserves experience.... how long would this likely take to complete?
Cheers
I'm disillusioned with civilian engineering and am idly wondering whether I've left it too late for the military. The short version of my resume is:
PEng in Ontario, fields of practice are electrical and software. BSc in Electronic & Computer Engineering (1986), MSc in Computing (1999) with my dissertation being on the subject of safety critical software. I have nearly 28 years of engineering experience in the automotive, nuclear, defence sectors with a strong bias towards large scale system engineering and safety management. In this time, I have had both project management and man-management / leadership roles managing multi-million dollar projects and teams ranging in size from 3 - 30.
In parallel with my civilian career, I spent 20+ years in the UK Naval Reserve as a NCM in the Tactical Communications, and later Communications and Information Systems specialisation finishing as CPO. In this role I undertook a wide range of training in Communications, Sea Survival, Leadership and Instructional Technique as well as being employed at sea in an operational role, and ashore as an instructor at the Communications School. Once in Canada, and once I became a citizen, I joined the CIC (2012), and am now a Lt(N) working with a Sea Cadets Corps.
My questions are:
1. Is it too late for me?
2. What roles would be available for a direct entry with this level of experience?
3. I would anticipate that a PLAR would be required for civilian and reserves experience.... how long would this likely take to complete?
Cheers
I'm just looking for some rewarding fulfilling work in an environment where we're all working together to achieve the same objective, not the poisonous office-politics ridden environment of nearly every civilian work-place I've worked!
