UGV Maintenance Technician
Requirements
- Understanding of electrics and mechanics: design of wheeled and tracked platforms, drives, power units
- Experience repairing surface-mount circuit boards, soldering
- Ability to set up antennas, amplifiers and communication systems
- Ability to use diagnostic equipment (multimeters, etc.)
- Readiness to identify and fix faults quickly in the field
Responsibilities
- Diagnosis and repair of UGV running gear and power units
- Repair and soldering of surface-mount circuit boards
- Setting up the vehicle's antennas, amplifiers and communication systems
- Rapid fault detection using diagnostic equipment
- Preparing UGVs for logistics and evacuation missions
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)
Vacancy: UGV Maintenance Technician
Unmanned ground vehicles carry ammunition and water to places where a person used to go under drone threat. They also evacuate the wounded. Every such vehicle that went instead of a person is a chance nobody sees in the reports.
The UGV Maintenance Technician keeps them running. The vehicles come back battered: shrapnel damage, blown suspension, flooded components, broken communications. Your job is to get the platform moving again — preferably today.
This is a position for someone good with their hands: more fitting, electrics and diagnostics than military romance.
Who can become a UGV Maintenance Technician
Military experience is not required. Technical experience is — the same kind valued on the civilian job market.
What really matters:
- Hands and head: electrics, mechanics, the ability to find the cause rather than replacing everything in sight
- A soldering iron and multimeter as everyday tools
- Experience with batteries, electric drives, wiring — any kind, including civilian
- Readiness to find solutions with what is at hand: standard spare parts for these vehicles often simply do not exist
- Medical fitness — determined by the military medical board (VLK)
On the main question: this is a military position, and everyone goes through basic military training. But you are hired for this specific job — in your profession.
What a UGV Maintenance Technician does in the 141st SMB
In addition to what is described in the requirements above:
- Diagnostics when a vehicle comes back: what has been knocked out, what has been flooded, what has simply worn out
- Repairing running gear and drives, restoring wiring, replacing components
- Working with control and communications equipment — without communications the platform is useless
- Maintaining batteries and power systems
- Modifying for the task: the vehicle often has to be adapted to how it is actually used
- Keeping records — what was repaired, what keeps breaking, what is in short supply
How you will be trained
The path is the same for everyone: 51 days of basic military training, then the brigade adaptation course — 14–15 days with instructors who have combat experience.
Then comes specialist training in the field and work alongside experienced technicians. Ground vehicles are new technology, and some of the know-how is built up right in the workshop: what a technician figures out for themselves often becomes a general rule.
Tactical medicine is drilled until it becomes automatic. Our instructors' principle is short: the priority is to survive.
What you will be provided with
You will be fully kitted out: gear, protective equipment, tools and the equipment you need for the job.
You will not be on your own. The maintenance technician works in the branch's technical group — together with UGV operators, other maintenance technicians and those who supply spare parts.
What the terms include:
- Pay: base pay of UAH 21,000 + an additional bonus of up to UAH 100,000 for carrying out tasks in the combat zone — up to UAH 121,000 per month in total, depending on the duration and area of the tasks
- 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 the branch's repair team
- UGV Operator — driving a vehicle you know down to the last screw
- Related technical specialties: UAV Maintenance Technician, Auto Electrician
- Professionally — experience with technology that did not exist five years ago
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 is a UGV?
+An unmanned ground vehicle — a remotely controlled platform. It carries cargo, ammunition and water, evacuates the wounded and performs other tasks instead of people.
Do I need military experience?
+No. You need technical experience — electrics, mechanics, diagnostics. Military training is provided.
Where exactly does a UGV Maintenance Technician work?
+In the branch's technical group, at positions determined by the commander depending on the task. As a matter of principle, we do not name specific locations.
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.