Nicholas Stone Email & Phone Number

Cullompton, GB

Hinkley Point C

Hinkley Point C

Navy Command Headquarters, Portsmouth

• Based within the People and Training Directorate in the Navy Command Headquarters, I was responsible for:
• Developing and implementing statutory and organisational workforce policy for over 2000 people to ensure the warfare branch will deliver suitably qualified and experienced people between 2023 and 2030.
• Qualitatively reviewing and endorsing the role of all warfare submarine and specialist branch positions to ensure the timely availability and resilience of the submarine force.
• Managing the Future Warfare Profession strategy within the Royal Navy’s strategic change programme designed to achieve a modernised and flexible workforce for the next 20+ years requiring development of the project’s.
• Modernising training courses as part of projects supporting future capabilities including new submarines, improved military diving, and autonomous mine hunting capability to deliver higher fidelity of training with a.
• Leading various multi-disciplinary team activity which included negotiation of a £1M+ increase in workforce liability following extensive analysis into shortfalls of suitably qualified people resulting in an improved.

HMNB Clyde, Faslane

• I was in command of a Royal Navy strategic asset worth £1.8Bn during a major overhaul period. Key achievements included:
• Responsibility for unit performance including the oversight and guidance to a multi-discipline senior leadership team including operators and engineers.
• Managing the wellbeing of up to 160 people in the crew and up to 70 contractors a day during the COVID-19 pandemic by building confidence in protective safeguards enabling maintenance activity to resume across the.
• The development of a plan and timeline for resuming the stalled maintenance period which was costing £1M in staff and service costs for each day of delay beyond the original schedule.
• Engagement with senior stakeholders regarding programming and resource conflicts which enabled the submarine to be used effectively in the Royal Navy’s operational plan for 2021 and beyond.
• Initiating and endorsing recommendations from multiple investigations relating to control of work violations which resulted in the reinvigoration of a safety culture praised by senior stakeholders as honest and.

HMNB Clyde, Faslane

• I was second in command of a platform during the extended rectification of an unprecedented technical defect, delivering the platform’s inaugural at sea qualification, and executing the longest period deployed (3.5.
• Leading the submarine’s approach to staff wellbeing alongside acting as a mentor and advisor to all personnel resulting in a reduction of staff turnover to 50% lower relative to the organisational average.
• Coached and mentored the next generation of executive management team, many of whom have achieved selection for the Submarine Command Course or are on track to do so.
• Liaising with service and industrial stakeholders to support the defect rectification challenge and operations.
• Overseeing the investigation and response to an emergent reactor shield tank defect ensuring rectification was completed safely and compliant with procedural requirements.
• Providing senior leadership continuity during change in Command ahead of deploying on operations.

Faslane, Argyll And Bute, United Kingdom

I successfully completed of one of the world’s most demanding military courses qualifying Royal Navy submariners to command following assessments in knowledge, rapid analysis, judgement, decision making, and risk management. Shore and sea training was conducted across the UK and abroad, in challenging and restrictive environments which tested the limits of.

HMNB Devonport

I provided leadership to a department of 40 people as the third in command of a submarine during a major overhaul period, sea training, high intensity reactive operations, and first operational deployment of its kind by the Royal Navy for more than 2 years. In addition to responsibility for my own department, I coordinated the detailed planning and.

HMNB Devonport

HMNB Devonport

I was responsible for planning and executing navigation onboard to ensure the submarine was in the right place at the right time. This involved multi agency (national and international) liaison, asset booking, internal and external communication. Included deployment through the Suez Canal, being one of only two people trusted to be the duty officer on.

Supported DCDS(MilCap) with strategic planning of joint military capability, across all lines of development making balance of investment recommendations; working with international partners; and ensuring that capability planning by individual services was appropriately directed and coherent with Defence-level priorities and affordability

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management, First Class

Designed to provide the necessary knowledge to identify, critically analyse, assess, respond to and recover from a growing range of.

Intermediate Command And Staff Course (Maritime), Distinction

Achieved a Distinction on a course designed to equip maritime officers with staff skills, critical thinking and operational awareness to.