David Haswell

SC Cleared, CEO‑appointed lead for enterprise‑wide Quality, Safety, Health, Environmental, Business, Service and Supply Chain Assurance, operating across multiple military, regulated sites and complex defence supply chains. Member of the Business Leadership Team, providing independent assurance and strategic insight in support of operational delivery, compliance, and business transformation.

• Established and lead a comprehensive business assurance framework, ensuring consistent governance, audit, risk management, corrective action processes across all Aquila sites.
• Hold accountability for compliance with contractual, regulatory, and military standards, including ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, DEFSTAN/AQAP, maintaining audit readiness across the organisation.
• Provide operational/strategic oversight of Quality, Health, Safety, Environmental and Supply Chain Assurance, ensuring that products/ services meet commercial, regulatory, technical, and customer requirements.
• Lead Lean Six Sigma and continuous improvement initiatives, addressing systemic weaknesses whilst improving service performance, compliance, and resilience.
• Championed strong quality and safety culture, driving continual improvement across operational teams and external suppliers.
• Directed root cause investigations into incidents and non‑conformances, implementing effective Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA) across internal teams and third‑party suppliers.
• Presents enterprise‑level KPIs, assurance findings and risk insights at Leadership Team and executive forums, enabling proactive risk mitigation.
• Contributed to business transformation initiatives, reviewing the Business Operating Framework and strategic roadmap to ensure alignment with customer demand and regulatory expectations, including current redesign of Business Management System and 320 level 0-3 policies and processes.
• Provided assurance over supply chain sustainability and diversification, strengthening resilience and long‑term operational capability.
• Acted as principal interface with external regulators, auditors, and assurance bodies, maintaining constructive relationships and positive audit outcomes.

• Accountable for programme, operational Quality and Supply chain assurance of Smart Energy and Water engagements, successfully delivering over 8 million Smart metering assets into Energy Suppliers premises and Customers homes.
• Led teams providing quality, risk, and supply chain assurance for design, manufacturing, delivery of circa 6 million Smart Energy meters and circa 2 million Smart Water meters in Customers homes.
• Design and implementation of ISO 9001 certified Quality Management System, requiring design/development of E2E processes through design, manufacturing, delivery, service support phases of highly regulated government-sponsored programme of works.
• Ensure compliance with customer requirements and business policies.
• Chair product review board for operational acceptance. Liaise with customers to capture requirements and address issues.
• Successfully delivered on tasks within tight deadlines.

• Successful design and delivery of ISO 9001 Certified Quality Management framework from programme mobilisation through design, development, transition into operations and ongoing service delivery.
• Developed, implemented and assurance oversight of complex global supply chain, delivering circa 1 million+ Smart Energy Meters at point of departure, including oversight of product quality, issue resolution with Customers and Root Cause Analysis at manufacturing/production sites.
• Business risk mitigation through effective quality monitoring, controls and improvement.

• Senior Quality lead, having designed the Quality Framework for circa £1bn defence contract, implemented Future Logistics Information Service globally across Defence estate.
• Quality and Assurance lead during contract negotiations with Senior MoD and Military representatives, requiring strong collaboration and negotiation skills, excellent understanding of subject matter and ability to assimilate technical information quickly, transforming it into clear, detailed strategic plans.
• Delivered a solution compliant with Defence, AQAPs, DEFSTANs and associated regulatory and legislative requirements.

• Various roles over 27 year career, culminating in 10 years within the UK Special community requiring excellence of craft, trade and performance.