Speakers

Neil is the Global Engineering Capability Director at Babcock International Group. He is responsible for leading engineering strategy areas around people, process and tools for Babcock.

A passionate advocate of STEM, his current role includes driving STEM, Skills and future workforce strategies ensuring Babcock has the right people in the right place at the right time to deliver on the company’s critical defence programmes.

As well as sitting on the global engineering executive board, Neil also sits on the Defence Industrial Joint Council People and Skills steering group co-chairing the working group for demand signal and academic interface.

Neil leads Babcock’s Digital Engineering strategy ensuring that we deliver world class Lifetime Engineering with modern application of Model Based Systems Engineering. This ensure that projects can be deliver their requirements with more certainty, quicker and at lower cost ensuring agility and adaptability to contract deliveries.

Prior to this appointment Neil was the Engineering & Technology Director in Babcock’s marine sector, where he was responsible for 1,000 engineers with a strong focus on marine systems and ship design in both in-service support, capability upgrades and new builds. His engineering team ranged from concept engineering; new naval ship designs such as the Inspiration Class T31 Frigates; in-service support for naval surface ships and submarines. Neil was also responsible for the Digital Facility development at Rosyth, heading up the Innovation team there.

Neil is a visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh and was instrumental in the generation of an Innovation Campus on Babcock’s Rosyth Facility in partnership with University of Edinburgh, Strathclyde, Fife College and Fife Council. The first operational technology center is the University of Edinburgh’s FastBlade facility that will allow accelerated fatigue testing facility for tidal blades.