Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
Chartered marine engineer with experience across all stages of engineering design and support. Predominantly in supporting business winning activities. Experiences gained through a variety of UK and international programmes for the Aircraft Carrier Alliance (Thales), Rolls-Royce and Babcock.
Responsible for the Future Programmes/R&T team within the Engineering Function of Babcock’s Marine Sector. The role of this team is to provide technical artefacts in support of securing new contracts for complex warships. This involves customer and internal/external stakeholder liaison alongside derivation of vessel requirements, scopes of work and in-service support strategies for a wide variety of vessels for customers across the globe. Accountable to the Engineering Director for the delivery of all ILS outputs in support of these programmes to demonstrable time, cost, safety and quality.
My primary purpose in the Engineering Manager role is to provide technical leadership and derivation of naval vessel support solutions into Babcock Warships business growth activities. This involves reach back into various other facets of the Babcock business; communicating opportunities across various business units and briefing both internal (strategy, Business Development, marketing) and external (customer) senior stakeholders.
Responsible for the Marine Engineering capability at Steller Systems; overseeing the delivery of all of Steller Systems' marine engineering projects to demonstrable time, cost and quality. I played an active part in the company's various PV developments, led the Marine Engineering strategy, conducted technical work and customer engagement in addition to a secondment into the MOD, acting as the Lead Marine Engineer for the MHC progra
Marine Engineering Lead for the future Mine Countermeasures (MCM) and Hydrographic Capability (MHC). I lead a team of marine and electrical engineers working for the MOD's Naval Design Partnership. This centred on deriving illustrative designs to inform cost estimates and validate high level User Requirements; analyzing the requirements, producing compliant designs and then evaluating a range of feasible platform design options and the various power and propulsion, auxiliary and platform systems within these vessels.
My focus was supporting the requirements derivation process for new products for the RR Naval Business which aligned with Rolls-Royce's strategic goals of increased electrification of warship power & propulsion. This included devising future power station architectures, deriving CONOPS and high level functional requirements which fed into a number of engineering development programmes. Alongside this I undertook a 4 month secondment to Japan acting as a technical point of contact between the RR Gas Turbine team in Bristol and Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Kobe. This was in support of the 30FFM programme (where RR/KHI were selected as the Gas Turbine provider).
Main responsibility was in the provision of both internal and customer technical support during the design stages of various Italian Navy shipbuilding programmes. In particular, propulsion systems design support for the LHD and PPA programmes - leading to a 3 month secondment to Genova, Italy where I acted as the technical point of contact between the Rolls-Royce Sales Teams, Engineering Teams and Fincantieri. Concurrently, I was tasked with supporting programmes in the UK, Finland and Japan.
My role was to analyse the requirements of new naval ship programmes, translating them into power & propulsion system designs. This involved the derivation of detailed plans & drawings as well as engineering calculation/analysis. A key component of this role was contact with both internal or external customers and suppliers. I provided specialist input to the engineering functions as well as sales & marketing functions. My role also consists of authoring and presenting technical papers at international marine and naval engineering conferences.
Focus on Propulsion, Manoeuvring and Power Generation systems of the Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers. Working towards the physical and functional integration, technical validation and acceptance of Power and Propulsion sub-systems. Required close liaison with stakeholders including the shipbuilder(s) and customer along with the ACA platform design teams and class. Necessitated a close working relationship with Rolls-Royce, Wartsilla and other Power & Propulsion Sub-Alliance Partners to ensure the technical requirements of the contracts are engineered and delivered to the agreed programme. The Propulsion and Manoeuvring Systems that I was responsible for during my time in the role were: - The Shaftline and Propeller system including its auxiliaries; - Steering gear & rudders system; - Fin stabilisers system. The Power Generation Systems I also worked with consist of: - Gas Turbine Alternator System - Diesel Generators - High Pressure Sea Water system for Diesel Generators - Emergency Diesel Generator