David Robbins

Experience

• 

  SLB

  Sept 1997 - Feb 2000

  Seismic Data Acquisition Engineer

  Maritime oil and gas exploration; North Sea, Mediterranean, South East Asia.

• 

  British Army

  May 2000 - Jun 2012

  Army Officer

  A variety of roles in operational delivery, command, leadership and managent.

• 

  HM Forces (ARMY) Corps of Royal Engineers

  Jun 2012 - Jul 2014

  Operations Director (Officer Commanding) Explosive Ordnance Disposal organisation

  Responsible for the training, discipline, welfare, career management, cohesion and operational effectiveness of 150 soldiers. Deployed and commanded the Squadron on operations in Afghanistan in support of UK and US Forces in Helmand Province.Head of a multi-disciplined, specialist soldier workforce and extensive inventory with responsibilities spanning global security operations and homeland resilience.

• 

  British Army

  Jul 2014 - Jul 2016

  Capability Investment Planner - Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)

  Provided analysis of future military capability requirements and developed costed plans to address operational requirements and to exploit opportunities presented by burgeoning scientific research and development. Delivered financial re-profiling of the funded programme to deconflict delivery and outputs.

• 

  Defence Academy of the United Kingdom

  Sept 2017 - Jul 2018

  Advanced Command and Staff Course (ACSC)

  Selected as the top 5% of 1700 military officer to undertake advanced staff training at the post-graduate level covering International Relations, Strategic and Operational Planning, Leadership and Management. Research paper focussed on the political and economic drivers shaping International Relations in East Asia.

• 

  British Army

  Jan 2019 - now

  Senior change manager/programme manager responsible for planning and governance for structural and procedural change across an organisation in excess of 12000 personnel. Principal organisational outputs: Recruiting; Training; Career Management; State Ceremonial and Public Duties. Commanding Officer 28 Engineer Regiment (C-CBRN)Leader and manager of 400 specialists, engineers and logisticians working to deliver detection, identification and mitigation of hazardous materials to support military and civil organisations on operations both overseas and in the UK.

  • Change Program Manager

    Aug 2021 - now

  • Managing Director Counter-Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (C-CBRN) organisation

    Jan 2019 - Aug 2021