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Plymouth, Gb

London, Gb

Leadership for the £300m / year Marine Support business unit, providing mission critical support to Naval Platforms, Systems and Equipment.Accountable for developing and delivering the strategy that integrated three businesses into one cohesive value-stream; developing a clear product and service offering and growing and diversifying through competitive UK and Internationalopportunities.Leadership for multi-site operations across the UK, Middle East and South America.

London, Gb

Leading the programme of support for Surface Ships.Accountable for the Babcock element of the Surface Ship Support Alliance for supporting Complex Warships (Type 23, Single Role Mine Hunters and Amphibious platforms), the Through-Life Support to HMS SCOTT, and the System Integration for Power Generation and Machinery Control & Surveillance Upgrade for Type 23.Ensuring effective planning and business management support to the Surface Ship business.Development and leadership for the strategic campaigns within the Surface Ship business.

London, Gb

Leading the programme of customer-facing support for Warship Support.Accountable for the Babcock element of the Surface Ship Support Alliance for supporting Complex Warships (Type 23, Single Role Mine Hunters and Amphibious platforms), the Through-Life Support to HMS SCOTT, and the System Integration for Power Generation and Machinery Control & Surveillance Upgrade for Type 23.Leading a programme to deliver efficient and effective support; reducing upkeep duration and cost.Leading the campaign to deliver Global Reach Platform Management capability, ensuring a world-wide support footprint.

London, Gb

Leading the multi-disciplinary Class Output Management Alliance team (RN, Babcock and BAE Systems) to deliver safe, capable, available and affordable Type 23 Class Frigates for the Royal Navy.Accountable for the successful delivery of the Type 23 Class Life Extension Programme.

London, Gb

Accountable for the Babcock Class Output Management team for the T23 Class; providing availability for the class within the Surface Ship Support AllianceAccountable for the Life Extension of the T23 ClassLeading and delivering change to ensure Babcock is best placed to deliver through-life support for the T23 Class.Providing change leadership within Warships to improve support across the Warships portfolioLeading the technology exploitation within the T23 Class across the business

London, Gb

Leadership of a cross-divisional campaign to identify and prosecute growth opportunities associated with the £2bn MOD Type 23 Life Extension Programme.Responsible for the formation of a Programme Management function within the Warship Support Business Unit to manage the Type 23 Life Extension Programme on behalf of the MOD Customer.Supported the MOD-led development of the future Warship Support Strategy to improve the support arrangements for current and future classes of Warship. Specific responsibility for the development of the Design Management Strategy with BAE Systems and the MOD.Development of subsequent outline proposals for the delivery of £70m savings over 5-years for Industry-led Design and Equipment Management

London, Gb

Development of strategy for the support to the Royal Marines within the South West, working across business unit and divisional boundaries to establish coherent business offering and identify new business opportunities.Development of strategy and business proposition for providing support to an international navy customer. Working with the international customer and partner organisation to derive a through-life, output-based proposition encompassing multiple Naval assets, shore-based support and infrastructure management.

London, Gb

Secondment with Defence Equipment & Support. Responsible for the provision of project management support and controls to £200m Programme replacing landing craft for the Royal Marines.Development and management of the integrated master schedule for concept, assessment and development phases of the programme.Responsible for the management of assurance and scrutiny activities by UK Government Agencies, including the Office of Government Commerce (OGC).Acting on behalf of the MOD, working with an Industry rainbow team encompassing BMT, Babcock and QinetiQ.

London, Gb

Responsible for managing and co-ordinating the delivery of world-wide through-life support to four T22 Frigates within a contracting for availability model.Derivation of engineering requirements for support to the T22 Class to ensure platform availability.Oversight of engineering delivery activities during Fleet Time Support Periods in the UK and Abroad.

London, Gb

Project management of the contract to deliver engineering support to Royal Navy Shore Establishments developing, installing and providing through-life support of training solutions for the Royal Navy.Responsible for driving organic growth of the contract to exceed baseline budget.Development of commercial, financial and project management competence and experience.

London, Gb

Providing engineering support and solution development to enable training solutions to be embodied within UK Royal Navy Shore Establishments.Developing solutions for Computer-based Training, Part-Task Training, Simulation and Stimulation to enable appropriate fidelity training solutions to be installed to meet the requirements of the Royal Navy.Management of site licences (RF Spectrum) and safe operation of multiple site emitters across the entire RF Spectrum, working with other Government Agencies to ensure safe operation and management of the RF Spectrum within designated areas of responsibility.

London, Gb

Development of installation design solutions for the update and upgrade of key capability on complex assets, ensuring accurate provision of information to enable capability to be embodied safely.Maintenance of configuration information for complex assets to ensure accurate information for through-life management.Proficient user of AutoCAD v13.

London, Gb

Fully indentured apprenticeship developing operational experience in major system overhaul and maintenance delivery to complex engineering assets.Formal qualification to NVQ Level 3 and HNC.