Ashley Schneider is the Chief Safety, Engineering and Assurance Officer at H&B Defence.

Prior to this, Ashley was the Director for AUKUS Emerging Markets in the Nuclear and Environmental Group at HII Mission Technologies where she was responsible for shaping this emerging market and capturing work and standing up the business to support the AUKUS trilateral agreement.

Ashley has over 20 years of extensive experience in nuclear engineering, hazardous and radiological waste management, emergency planning, Virginia Class Submarine Nuclear reactor construction and testing, and technical leadership. Ashley joined HII in 2008 as an Environmental Engineer and held positions throughout the Nuclear Propulsion Division in Radiological Controls Engineering, Emergency Planning, International Relations, Nuclear Test Engineering and R&D. She was also responsible for the stand up and successful operation of the Maritime Operations team, a 135-person embed multi-disciplinary engineering organization performing maintenance, sustainment and new construction of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, submarines and nuclear facilities.

Ashley holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Central Florida, a Graduate Certificate in Nuclear Engineering from Virginia Tech and a Master’s in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.