I've had a nod and a wink from one in the know that there would be a seat for me if I came back.
Although Eng branch needs to shrink - it shrank too much in the wrong places when they forced all those on time-ex SSCs to go. Apparently that, along with tranche 3 redundancy, has left them short of youngish JOs with 2 or 3 practical tours under their belt to man the DLO/DPA posts. The JO plot is a bit too heavy on those fresh from trg.