Steve Strange

Experience

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  Royal Navy

  Feb 1991 - Mar 1993

  Communications and Electronic Warfare Equipment Maintainer
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  Royal Navy

  Sept 1999 - Jan 2003

  In this role I was the Deputy Head of the Weapon Engineering Department onboard a nuclear submarine. I was the Head of the Strategic Weapon System (Trident) Department and successfully led and managed a large team of personnel charged with the operation, maintenance, safety and security of the UK Nuclear Deterrent through a number of patrols. Of necessity, I was completely unsupported by outside agencies.

  • Deputy Weapon Engineer Officer

    Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

  • Head of the Strategic Weapon System Department

    Sept 1999 - Nov 2001
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  Royal Navy

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2006

  Weapon System Training Officer (Management)

  Here I was the Lead instructor for the delivery of Engineering Management, Damage Control and Leadership training to Officers within the Weapon Engineering Submariner specialisation of the Royal Navy.

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  Babcock International Group (then Devonport Management Ltd)

  Mar 2006 - Dec 2006

  Combat Systems Group Naval Advisor

  This was a short term secondment to a leading civilian engineering company responsible for the provision of engineering support and advice for the installation of communications equipment onboard nuclear submarines.

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  Royal Navy

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2009

  Head of the Weapon Engineering Department

  As the Head of the Weapon Engineering Department onboard HMS Turbulent I provided inspirational leadership and management to a submarine's Weapon Engineering Department through a protracted docking and maintenance periodI had led an operational sea training period to prepare the submarine for successful operational patrols.Simultaneously, I built a high performance team able to operate unilaterally and unsupported in some of the most unforgiving and hostile operational environments. عرض أقل

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  Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S)

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2010

  Maritime Capability Trials and Assessment - Head of the Submarine Platform Group

  As the Head of the Submarine Platform Group I successfully led a large team responsible for continued engagement with industry partners to guide and advise them through the acceptance process required for new equipment coming into service within the RN submarine Fleet. In this role I ensured that user and system requirements were met, through continuous trial attendance ashore and at sea, and through the provision of sound recommendations to ensure the RN achieved value for money.

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  Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S)

  Sept 2010 - Feb 2013

  DES Ships Maritime Combat Systems Underwater Electronic Warfare Project Team Requirements Manager

  I successfully formulated the user and system requirements for future ship and submarine sonar systems. Through protracted negotiation with contractors, I formally determined and scrutinised acceptance criteria to accept equipment into service on behalf of the Royal Navy.

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  Babcock International Group

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2014

  Seconded to Babcock International, Programme Manager, Submarine Projects

  This was a major operational leadership role (of around 75 Royal Navy and civilian engineers) at the heart of the UK’s global defence. I was responsible for the turnaround and deployment of the Royal Navy’s nuclear powered, cruise missile armed Trafalgar class submarines, a crucial asset. Keeping them working at peak efficiency was a non-negotiable national priority. Selected Achievements:• Improved the turnaround speed and the quality of repairs by clearly identifying ownership and negotiating a more equal sharing of labour between submarine crews and my engineers.• Solved major nuclear reactor and supporting system faults which posed significant risks to submarine operational programmes by deploying teams of specialists both in the UK and abroad.• Ensured repairs were completed quicker than originally estimated through streamlining the repair sequence thus meeting the Royal Navy’s deadlines without compromising nuclear safety. • Robustly managed the RN’s contract with Babcock International to ensure the company provided the service required within the stated response times. عرض أقل

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  Royal Navy

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2015

  Head of Royal Navy/Royal Marines Recruiting for South West England and the Channel Islands

  Selected Achievements:• Consistently achieved the highest UK National recruitment numbers, accounting for 23.5% of all recruit numbers across six recruitment areas.• Analysed the success of the area’s six recruiting offices and moved resources to those most likely to produce the best results, changing long established, traditional patterns. • Created innovative ways of marketing the Royal Navy as a career to the region’s young people, including initiatives to inspire interest among parents, building a culture that fostered higher recruitment rates. عرض أقل

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  Foreign and Commonwealth Office

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2017

  Maritime Security Advisor (Yemen) (Commander, Royal Navy)

  This was a unique post created by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a result of the conflict in Yemen. The UK Embassy in Yemen’s capital Sana’a had been displaced to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. I advised two British Ambassadors and their respective teams on all implications for British interests related to the conflict on land and also originating from the maritime domain and threats to commercial shipping. Stakeholder management, organisation information flows, analysis of data, and presentation of findings and their importance were all crucial tasks.Selected Achievements:• Successfully co-ordinated international humanitarian relief efforts for Yemeni citizens by taking over the chairmanship of a UN forum with members including USAID, DfID/UKAid, King Salman Relief and other international NGOs.• Created a successful partnership to rebuild Yemen’s Coast Guard, designing the master strategy and implementation plan for use once the war ended, building on surviving infrastructure and providing new assets to fill operational gaps.• Rebuilt, restructured and turned around the performance of the Yemeni Coast Guard’s three surviving vessels and their crews at a UN base in Somalia, having negotiated UK Government funding. • Secured funding for the master strategy by negotiating with major NATO-allies’ Embassy Defence Attachés in Riyadh, agreeing funding to create a standardised and cohesive array of modern operational assets rather than a force built around obsolescent, donated vessels. • Managed an understandably difficult relationship with a Yemeni Government reeling from the conflict, overcoming initial friction, managing expectations and finally winning their agreement to my strategy. • Proved the role’s value to the FCO and wider UK Government regional influence, leading to an initial three-month extension of its fixed duration, and then agreement to a permanent replacement for the next 5 years. عرض أقل

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  Royal Navy

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2016

  Head of Submarine Weapon Engineering Training, Royal Navy Submarine School/FOST (Fleet Operational S

  In both of these roles I had the operational purpose of sustaining a pipeline of talent for the Royal Navy in one of its premier recruitment areas, ensuring some of its most important staff were trained to the highest standard and career paths were planned to increase retention. I was successful in these complementary HR and OD goals. At FOST my achievements included:• Improved morale, focus and results among students at FOST by adding an understanding of the UK’s strategic need for their roles, to high quality technical training. • Designed and delivered new channels of communication and information sharing between crews in training (for both the “Hunter-Killer” submarines and the nuclear deterrent “Bombers”), fostering a faster spread of best practice and continuous improvement. عرض أقل

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  Career Transition Partnership

  Jul 2017 - Jan 2018

  Resettlement Training
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  Bristol Management Centre

  Oct 2017 - Oct 2017

  Student

  CMI Level 7 Executive Management Programme focussing on accounting and finance, business strategy and operations, marketing and employment law.

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  Thrive Partners Ltd

  Jan 2018 - now

  Executive Coach

  My passion is development, and I am an experienced Executive coach delivering online, on-demand coaching using the successful MyThrive capsule coaching model. Selected Achievements:• Create a focus on leadership development, high performance team building, personal productivity and communication within stressful, high tempo and demanding environments. • Successfully drawing from my operational, engineering and programme director leadership experience in the civilian and military worlds. • Enabling people completely new to leadership roles develop and gain confidence as a leader at their pace. • Creating an environment where people can reach their full potential by using the skills they already have and assisting in the development of new ones, employing a patient approach which inspires personal aspirations. عرض أقل

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  RB Safety Consultants Ltd

  Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

  Principal Engineer

  At RB Consultants I fulfilled my mission to delight the clients by providing high quality, value for money bespoke technical, safety and risk management consultancy to highly regulated industries. This included support to the UK defence programme, civil nuclear, aviation, asset management and the rail industry providing complex engineering, project and programme management, business process and assurance, OHSE and integrated logistic support services. Selected Achievements• Successfully managing stakeholder relations with the UK MoD, establishing trust and providing assurance that completed solutions were sound whilst providing sufficient transparency to highlight where further work was required. Additionally, I proved that equipment support risks on the Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier programme were being proactively managed. • Furthermore, successfully managing the transfer of equipment responsibilities from the private sector constructors to the military for all training, equipment, personnel and infrastructure.• Ensuring for the UK Government the resilience and invulnerability of its information flow for the next 50 years to its most important strategic military assets, a highly classified project requiring simplification, trust building and stakeholder management to tight timescales, but at the very highest level. عرض أقل

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  BAE Systems SDT

  Feb 2019 - Aug 2023

  Throughout this most recent period of my career, my objective has been to delight the customer, here the Royal Saudi Naval Forces. Delivering Value for Money (VfM) services on time, to cost and at the agreed quality has been my signature and consistent success. Selected Achievements:• Delivering a completely new marina for training the Royal Saudi Navy transforming, in just two years, a building site into an operational facility, procuring bespoke equipment, creating new governance and ensuring risk-management and health and safety were never compromised. • Successfully advancing part of the Saudi Government’s ambitious “Vision 2030”, reducing its dependence on foreign experts, by designing and delivering a mock ship for the realistic training of combat crews and coaching its trainers, which will deliver thousands of trained sailors over the next 20 years.• Planning, producing and delivering a major programme for the Saudi Navy providing classes and laboratories equipped with cutting-edge technology for technical training, with the first three phases completed on time and within budget, and the final phase on course to be completed on time.• Designing the organisation’s roles and populating them, currently on track to meeting the customer’s requirement of increasing the proportion of Saudi nationals. • Managing the Saudi client’s expectations of progress once the COVID-19 pandemic hit, explaining the recovery programme after the impact set the scheme back eight months. عرض أقل

  • Director of Engineering

    Sept 2022 - Aug 2023

  • Project Director - Integration

    Feb 2022 - Mar 2023

  • Senior Executive Team Member, Head of Operations and Deputy Project Director

    Feb 2019 - Feb 2022
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  Critical Operations Group LLC

  Sept 2021 - Nov 2023

  Non Executive Director

  Providing Non Executive support across a range of delivery areas.

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  BAE Systems Saudi Arabia

  Jul 2023 - now

  Director of Engineering - Saudi British Defence Cooperation Programme (SBDCP)

  Engineering and Maintenance Director for the SBDCP portfolio of programmes being delivered to the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) and Royal Saudi Naval Force (RSNF). Awarded BAE Systems Global Engineering Fellow status.