Job purpose The Project S* Capability Demonstration and Integration Period is a period where the envelope of the newly acquired vehicle will be opened in terms of safe operation and capability to prove both arguments and claims within the safety case, evidence compliance with the requirements set upon the SDA for customer acceptance and the development and proving of operational and some tactical procedures. This will be achieved through a complex set of trials and other activities which will require careful management by preferably an experienced operator/ex operator who would hold acquisition skills and understand the safe to operate and operate safely mantra. The SMP CDIP Delivery Manager is responsible for the development and delivery of the trials’ requirements, trials logic and programme. Specific post tasks are: • Create, deliver, and manage the overall CDIP plan • Chair the CDIP planning group • Run and record trials logic conferences in support of the CDIP planning group to ensure the required safety hold points are developed, sequenced, support the safety case development and injected to the satisfaction of the PA • Create the Trials Order and support the management of any Exercise planning effort (inc OpOrd) that the customer may need to develop in the delivery of GF* to deliver the overall CDIP • Assist the operator in development of safety planning • Identify, record and manage trials risk • Trials management and safe conduct supporting trials officers for all serials and interface with operator input iaw all PA/ODH caveats and conditions of use • Interface with the Training management plan to ensure that the training programme, that will run alongside the CDIP plan, is coherent and delivers operators trained to the correct level to support each sequenced activity The post is responsible to SDA-P-ENG-ESO-DPCE-SP and the S* Project Manager (SDA-P-PM-SPS) Authority The post holder is accountable to SDA-P-ENG-ESO-DPCE SP and SDA-P-PM-SPS and is authorised to: • Liaise with all and necessary authorities in order to deliver a successful CDIP output • Manage the current DSTL CDIP development tasking to conclusion in support of initial role outputs Accountability Accountable for (delivery of output) - Accountable to (recipient of output) Create, deliver, and manage the overall CDIP plan - SDA-P-PM-SPS Chair the CDIP planning group - SDA-P-PM-SPS Run and record trials logic conferences in support of the CDIP planning group to ensure the required safety hold points are developed, sequenced, support the safety case development and injected to the satisfaction of the PA - SDA-P-ENG-ESO-DPCE SP Create the Trials Order and support the management of any Exercise planning effort (inc OpOrd) that the customer may need to develop in the delivery of GF* to deliver the overall CDIP - SDA-P-ENG-ESO-DPCE SP Assist the operator in development of safety planning - SDA-P-ENG-ESO-DPCE SP Identify, record and manage trials risk - SDA-P-PM-SPS Trials management and safe conduct supporting trials officers for all serials and interface with operator input - SDA-P-ENG-ESO-DPCE SP Interface with the Training management plan to ensure that the training programme, that will run alongside the CDIP plan, is coherent and delivers SQEP operators trained to the correct level to support each sequenced activity - SDA-P-PM-SPS and SDA-P-ENG-ESO-DPCE SP Manage and deliver additional DSTL diving SME taskings as required, e.g. DLS safety justifications etc - SDA-P-PM-SPS and SDA-P-ENG-ESO-DPCE SP