Richard Chance

Engineering Manager (Future Programmes) , Babcock International Group

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Richard Chance is a Babcock Engineering Manager for Future Programmes within the Marine-Support division.  Richard has spent most of a 40-year career in Maritime Defence, starting life as a Weapons Engineer within MOD(Navy), moving through the Underwater Weapons Acquisition teams within MOD, undertaking research and exploitation within QinetiQ (and its MOD predecessor) before joining Babcock in 2015 and becoming Systems Engineering Manager for the Type 23 Frigate LIFEX programme.  His current role utilises this wide experience to develop support solutions for the new and often unique needs of Babcock’s future customers.