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OVERVIEW Your job is to ensure that friendly troops can live, move and fight on the battlefield, and deny the same abilities to enemy troops. WHAT THEY DO Combat Engineers are members of the Military Engineer branch of the Canadian Forces. Their job is to ensure that friendly troops can live, move and fight on the battlefield, and deny the same abilities to enemy troops. They also perform duties in aid of the civil power and civil authority; participate in peace-support operations; perform construction and maintenance tasks in support of the CF and other government organizations; drive and operate vehicles and equipment in support of Engineer Operations; and maintain field installations and facilities. Combat Engineers have the following primary duties: Construct and maintain roads, airfields, heliports, bridges, causeways, rafts, permanent and temporary buildings; Construct field defences and obstacles; Provide drinking water by testing, purifying and filtering local supplies and by constructing local distribution systems; Detect and dispose of mines, booby traps and bulk explosives; Deny mobility to the enemy on the battlefield by demolishing roads and bridges, and laying minefields and booby traps; Maintain and operate engineering equipment, including weapons, vehicles, heavy equipment and supplies; Provide engineer communications on the battlefield; and When necessary, fight as infantry (includes use of personal weapons, reconnaissance and section-level tactics). QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS Combat Engineers should enjoy outdoor work, be physically fit and mechanically and technically oriented, and be resourceful, innovative and self-reliant in nature. They should also be good learners with good hand-eye co-ordination and manual dexterity. Above-average mathematical ability is required for promotion to the higher ranks.