b'Partner News Summer 2021 9MODAs well as the DERS agreements the IETvalue in the individuals and helping is working hard to implement Centralengineers and technician with masses Payment Schemes in the Armed Forces.of expertise and knowledge with the We have been successful with the RAF,transition from the Armed Forces to civilianI am looking forward to with over 1,000 members registered,life. We wanted to encourage people tobecoming President and and the feedback has been fantastic.register, so we harnessed support across Would you be willing to support thethe Services and submitted a 65-pagefollow in the successful promotion and implementation ofbusiness case to help achieve this aim. Thesteps of all past Presidents. Central Payment Schemes with ourhard edge was about retaining the skills we MOD Partners? have, and ensuring when people do leaveMy specific area of focus will the Services they can employ their skillsbe to champion technicians We should be looking to roll Centralmore easily for the wider good of UK plc. and seek to facilitate the Payment Schemes out for the other Services as widely as we can, includingIn October you will start your yearcontinued growth in their more companies in industry that alreadyas IET President, what do you hopemembership. have had a lot of success with it. The IETto achieve and what are you looking takes engineers and technicians from allforward to?backgrounds, which is the great joy of the IET. If you care about engineering inI am looking forward to becoming President any or multiple sectors, the IET can beand follow in the successful steps of all your professional home and has a uniquepast Presidents.I aim in my presidential position to fill. We need to be engagingyear to help consolidate the initiatives with seniors and Fellows in all engineeringintroduced previously and everything that organisations to promote the value in theircomes out of IET@150 alongside our new people being Professionally Registered. 2030 strategy. My specific area of focus will be to champion technicians and seek Why did you and your Defenceto facilitate the continued growth in their Engineering Champion Team generatemembership. I believe the majority of the the Armed Forces Professionalisationmissing 3 million mentioned in Professor Strategy 2018? Uffs 2017 review of our engineering profession are technicians. We need to The Professionalisation Strategy was theunderstand better what technicians are, culmination of a huge amount of work towhat it means to be a technician and then push for paying fees and paying a bonus tooffer them more through membership of military people for becoming Professionallythe IET.Registered. It was all about demonstrating The Royal Marines sign the Defence Engineering Registration SchemeThe signing of the Royal Marines (RM)engineering-focused fighting force norProfessional Registration within the RM, Defence Engineer Registration Schemehaving its own Engineer Officers theit has generated conversations that are to the IET was the completion of whatmerits and utility of engineering have notkickstarting a cultural change in the has become a positive movement withinbeen exploited.RM to promote engineering beyond the the RM in recognising engineering talentself-imposed historical boundaries and to along with its use and breadth beyondTechnology is evolving rapidly in theexplore the introduction of a Technical the current everyday perception of theirbattlespace and complexity has goneOfficer career path to retain and grow the role within the service. Multiple RM tradesbeyond the level of understanding ofcapability in the RM. A positive step I was conduct their trade training with Royalthe user. Engineering tradesmen areproud to be a part of and grateful to the Navy, Royal Signals and Royal Electricalfinding themselves at the forefront ofIET for their proactive support. -Captain & Mechanical Engineer training schools,development, delivery, deploymentIain Loader IEng MIET, Royal Marines. but due to the RM not in itself being anand sustainability. Through promoting'