GySgt John Northcott

GySgt John Northcott

Dates of Service: Nov 1997 - Jun 2014
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A result-driven, senior aviation maintenance and “hands on” leader with seventeen years of extensive experience in all levels of aviation maintenance, development, management, and utilisation of assets and personnel that have led to a rock solid expertise base. Regularly exposed to situations requiring versatile, adaptable, decisive, and forward thinking traits, which have been battle tested during critical, high stress situations.

Military Experiences

Nov 1997 - Jun 2014
Crew Chief
H-1 helicopter Crew Chief, mechanic, instructor, supervisor, and asset manager. Maintenance Operation / Material Control Manager: Directly responsible for the production effort of a maintenance department consisting of 10 work centers and over 325 personnel. Initiated /hosted multi-agency working group to mitigate new program unforeseen obstacles- established enduring methodology to determine problem ownership, and then efficiently resolve it. Assigned appropriate personnel and priorities on a daily basis to ensure the upkeep of aircraft health, safety and readiness. Planned the management of special, scheduled, and phase inspections, to include periodic screening of hi-time removal components. Ensured the prompt compliance of technical directives and dynamic components. Performed duties as aircraft safe for flight clearance. Over 3200 logged day hours & over 1100 NVD hour operations.

Deployments

(3 years, 7 months)
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