Daniel Tolcher

Experience

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  Royal Navy

  Nov 2015 - now

  Responsible to Commandant Training Management Group as Head of Department for warfare training. Lead a workforce of 50 personnel to deliver 1000+ trainees per annum, back to the front-line and trained for their next role. - Lead training consultant for shaping and driving training modernisation, workforce restructuring and relocation project deliverables for the £500m future submarine training centre.- Provide oversight, direction and assurance of training validation processes including risk register, continual improvement plan and safe to train certifications.- Senior warfare user for Defence System Approaches to Training, OFSTED inspection, and external military audits.- Delivered business case and decision gate information to senior user for workforce and infrastructure transfers, achieving service extension to Dec 2025.- Member of strategic capability working groups, notably navigation, acoustic and radar. Show less Submarine Operations Officer. Responsible to the Commanding Officer and senior leadership team for delivering the operation plan for stakeholder approval. Key skills included: leadership, communication, empowerment, and subordinate development. Achievements:- Delivered plan for newly commissioned submarine, generating from shore activity to sea assurance and culminating in first operational deployment. - Responsible for at sea management programme, maintaining adherence to the safety operating envelope, achieving specified and implied tasks, and providing professional development opportunities for 150+ workforce. - Skilled in detailed and accurate stakeholder engagement, achieving endorsement of generation plan encompassing personnel, equipment, training and sustainability pillars.- Member of senior management team analysing risks and emergent issues, providing mitigation and options to minimise the downstream programming impact. - Senior Officer of the Day ensuring compliance of safe systems of work, control measures and risk management. - Selected for Submarine Command Course.- Passed Command Qualification 1 Board. Show less

  • Submarine Operations Program Manager

    Oct 2023 - now

  • Officer in Charge Warfare Training Group (Submarines)

    Nov 2020 - Oct 2023

  • Operations Officer

    Feb 2018 - Nov 2020

  • Navigation Officer

    Nov 2015 - Jan 2018