Diesel Generator Electrician
Requirements
- Technical education or experience working with diesel engines or electrical equipment
- Understanding of how diesel engines and electrical systems work
- Ability to read electrical diagrams and technical documentation
- Skills in using measuring instruments
- Experience with fuel injection equipment is an advantage
- Attentiveness and responsibility: a fault shows up at the worst possible moment
- Medical fitness for service — determined by the military medical board (VLK)
Responsibilities
- Maintenance, diagnostics and repair of diesel engines
- Servicing diesel generators and the unit's power supply systems
- Working with fuel injection equipment: adjustment, disassembly, cleaning, repair
- Electrical installation work: cables, load distribution, earthing, replacing components
- Scheduled and emergency repairs, including in the field
- Recording fuel consumption and engine hours, maintaining technical documentation
Terms
- Mobilisation until the end of martial law, or contract service
- Basic and specialist training as required
- Pay: base pay of UAH 21,000 + an additional bonus of UAH 30,000 — approximately UAH 51,000 – 55,000 per month in total, depending on the position and conditions of service
- Full social package
- Full provision of protective equipment and military property
- Opportunity to obtain combatant status (UBD)
What a Diesel Generator Electrician is and what they do
A diesel mechanic is a specialist who maintains and repairs diesel engines and diesel generators. A Diesel Generator Electrician combines two specialities: they are responsible for both the engine and the electrical equipment it powers.
In the military, wherever there is no stable grid, electricity comes from a diesel generator. Communications, lighting, charging batteries for drones and radios, and the operation of equipment all depend on it. When the generator stops, half of the unit's work stops.
That is why the Diesel Generator Electrician vacancy in the AFU is a position for someone with skilled hands and a good head: diagnostics, repair, fuel injection equipment, electrics. When everything works, nobody notices this work. When it does not, nobody can do without it.
Who can become a Diesel Generator Electrician
No military experience is needed — you need technical experience, the same kind that is valued on the civilian market.
What matters:
- Experience with diesel engines: car servicing, agricultural machinery, construction machinery, stationary or marine diesels
- Electrics: diagrams, loads, protection, safe live working
- Fuel injection equipment is a notable advantage: in the field, it is most often the source of problems
- Attentiveness and responsibility
- Medical fitness — determined by the military medical board (VLK)
How a Diesel Generator Electrician differs from an Auto Electrician: the diesel electrician is responsible for diesel engines and the unit's power supply systems; the Auto Electrician for the electrical equipment of vehicles: wiring, starters, lighting.
Duties of a Diesel Generator Electrician in the 141st SMB
What a Diesel Generator Electrician does every day:
- Keeps the diesel generators that power the unit in working order: servicing by engine hours, oil and filter changes, load monitoring
- Diagnoses and repairs vehicle diesel engines
- Works with fuel injection equipment: injectors, fuel pumps, adjustment
- Lays and maintains cables, distributes loads, checks earthing
- Carries out emergency repairs in the field when there is no service centre nearby
- Keeps records of fuel and engine hours
Professional nuances that are especially important here:
- Fuel. Water and dirt in diesel fuel are the main cause of failures, so separator filters are checked more often than in peacetime
- Winter. Summer diesel thickens in the frost and clogs filters — you need winter fuel, additives or heating
- Load. A generator running at the limit of its capacity or almost without load wears out faster — distributing consumers is also the diesel electrician's job
How you will be trained
The path is the same for everyone who comes without military experience:
- Basic military training — 51 days
- 141st SMB adaptation course — 14–15 days with instructors who have combat experience
- Working in your profession alongside the brigade's experienced technicians
Civilian experience counts in full: a diesel is still a diesel. What you will need to learn is the conditions — camouflaging equipment, working at night, positioning the generator so that its noise and heat signature do not give it away.
Tactical medicine is drilled until it becomes automatic. The instructors' principle: the priority is to survive.
What you will be provided with
You will be fully kitted out: gear, protective equipment, tools and equipment.
The Diesel Generator Electrician works in the technical support group — alongside auto electricians, auto mechanics, driver-mechanics and the logistics service.
What the terms include:
- Pay: base pay of UAH 21,000 + an additional bonus of UAH 30,000 — approximately UAH 51,000 – 55,000 per month in total, depending on the position and conditions of service
- Full provision of gear, protective equipment and military property
- The social package provided for service members
- Opportunity to obtain combatant status (UBD)
Where you can grow
- Senior technician, head of a repair team
- Related technical specialities: Auto Electrician, Auto Mechanic, electrician
- Instructor for newly arrived technical specialists
- Experience of repairs where there is neither a service centre nor spare parts is valued after service too
In the 141st, competence and results count — not length of service.
Frequently Asked Questions
Logic and process: we answer the key questions about enlistment, training and status.
Apply for this positionWhat does a Diesel Generator Electrician do in the army?
+Maintains and repairs diesel generators and vehicle diesel engines, and works with fuel injection and electrical equipment. Lighting, communications and charging of everything that runs on batteries depend on them.
Do I need military experience?
+No. You need technical experience — diesel engines, electrics, diagnostics. You will be given military training: basic military training (BZVP) of 51 days and the brigade adaptation course.
How does a Diesel Generator Electrician differ from an Auto Electrician?
+An Auto Electrician works with the electrics of vehicles. A Diesel Generator Electrician works with diesel engines, generators and the unit's power supply systems.
I have no military experience. Can I still join you?
+Yes. Most of our best specialists were civilians yesterday. What matters to us is your motivation. We’ll match a role to your skills: if you understand machinery — you’ll go to the mechanics; if you know electronics — to UAVs or communications. Everything military — we’ll teach you.
How long does training take before deployment to the unit?
+Every recruit completes Basic General Military Training (BGMT) at a training center. After that — additional specialized training depending on the chosen role. We send only the prepared to the line of contact — that is our core principle.
What happens after I fill out the form?
+Your application goes to the recruiting center. Within 24 hours our specialist will call — it’s not an interrogation, just an introduction and answers to your questions. If we’re a match, the brigade issues an official request and our liaison helps you get through the TRC and MMB as fast as possible.
Can I transfer to the 141st SMB from another unit?
+Yes, we consider transfers — including via the Army+ app. Fill out the form and select the status “Active service member” — a recruiter will advise on your real chances and the steps involved.
I am AWOL (SZCh). Can I join?
+The law allows a return to service. If you’re motivated to fight in a sound team — fill out the form and state your status honestly. Our specialists will advise you individually on legal ways to return. Confidentially.
Do you provide uniform and equipment?
+Yes. The brigade fully provides basic kit, body armor, helmets and weapons. Plus — thanks to a strong volunteer network, we have additional technological support: drones, EW, transport.
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Tell us which role you wantWhat happens after you apply
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A call within 24 hours
Your application goes to the recruiting centre and a specialist calls within a day. It is not an interrogation — just an introduction and answers to your questions.
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Interview and choosing a role
Together we look at what you can do and where it is most useful. If we are a match, the brigade issues an official request for your transfer.
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Enlistment office and medical board — with support
Our liaison helps you get through the enlistment office and the military medical board as fast as possible. You do not navigate the queues alone.
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Training first, then the unit
Basic general military training takes 51 days, followed by the brigade’s 14–15 day adaptation course with instructors who have combat experience. We send only prepared soldiers to the front line.