At a glance
- Soldier
- intelligence
Are you ready to step into a vital role where your technical skills can make a strategic impact? Join the front lines of the information battle and become a Royal Signals Network Operator in the Army Reserve.
Are you ready to step into a vital role where your technical skills can make a strategic impact? As a Network Operator, you'll be on the cutting edge of communications technology, ensuring that our Commanders have the vital link they need to maintain Decision Advantage over our enemies. Achieving all of this in your spare time whilst getting paid.
Your Role
Prepare, Configure, Deploy, and Maintain: You'll be responsible for tactical communications systems, ensuring they run flawlessly.
Engineer Diverse Systems: From radios and satellite systems to computer networks and mobile communications, you'll handle it all.
Support Software Applications: Provide essential support for a wide range of software applications, keeping everything running smoothly.
Where You'll Make a Difference
Network Operator are indispensable wherever military communications are needed. If you want, you can find opportunities to serve across wider Defence sectors, including:
Special and Airborne Forces
Cyber Defence
Information Assurance
Electronic Warfare
Why Join Us?
Global Impact: Play a crucial role in military operations across the globe.
Diverse Experiences: Work with cutting-edge technology and a variety of communication systems.
Professional Growth: Continuous opportunities for personal and professional development in a field that combines tactical operations with advanced technological applications, gaining qualifications that are highly sought after in the private sector.
Flexibility: Contribute to national security in your spare time whilst maintaining your civilian career.
If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a real difference, join the Royal Signals as a Network Operator and be a key player in winning the information battle, all whilst balancing your civilian life and getting paid for your service.
Royal Corps of Signals
Are you ready to become a leader in IT, Cyber, Telecommunications, or Electronic Warfare? The Royal Corps of Signals is seeking dynamic, flexible, and innovative individuals to join our ranks and lead the charge in the information battle.
As a member of the Royal Signals, you will be at the forefront of Defence activity, providing battle-winning communications and ensuring our forces are always connected. From setting up complex networks under fire to enabling communications for humanitarian missions, your role will be crucial in both conflict and peace. You will be instrumental in protecting allied networks and data while attacking those of the enemy.
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Reserve (part time)
Entry requirements
Age:
From 17 years & 9 months to 42 years & 6 months
Qualifications:
Relevant skills from industry or ex-Regular service (which will be assessed before applications are accepted).
Basic physical fitness assessment:
Mid Thigh Pull 50kg
Medicine Ball Throw 2.7m
MSFT (beep test) Level 5 shuttle 8
Training for the role
Step 1
Basic Training consists of two main courses and some online training packages. You can book on the courses to fit around your daily life, so it could take you several months to finish your basic training.
Module 1: Foundation Training. 5 alternate residential weekends Fri - Sun at an Army training centre OR a nine-day residential course.
Module 2: Battlecamp. 15-day residential course at an Army training establishment. You will learn fieldcraft, Skill at Arms, fitness training, qualities of a soldier, military knowledge, Battlefield casualty drills, individual health and education. This will culminate with a Passing Off Parade which your family and friends can attend to celebrate your success.
Step 2
Next, you learn the specialist skills you need for your role with your Reserve unit, and at the Royal School of Signals. This happens mostly in the evenings and at weekends, with a 15-day continuous training period once a year. Once complete you will be fully integrated in an active deployable Reserve unit and be on a career path to become a communications expert.
Qualifications you could get after training
Opportunity to gain additional driving licence qualifications.
Certain courses at the Royal School of Signals attract a City and Guilds award.
Pay & benefits
You'll get paid a day rate according to your rank, starting in training and rising once you're a Private. This includes being paid for weekly drill nights. Plus, if you complete all of your annual training, you're entitled to a tax-free lump sum called a bounty.
How to Apply
When you decide to apply, your local unit will help you through the process - you don't need to wait until you've finished Army Assessment to get involved.
To join, you have to apply online. The application process will take some time, but you can also ring the unit you're interested in joining - the team there will help often invite you to join them for drill nights, and you'll get support for your application.