Mark Rouse

Mark graduated from Coventry University with an honours degree in Control Systems Engineering and joined VSEL shipbuilders in 1987 as a graduate apprentice, working on a range of nuclear submarine build programmes during the formative years of his career.

In 1997 he joined Devonport Management Limited at Devonport Royal Dockyard (which itself joined the Babcock International Group in 2007). There he held posts such as the first Trident Facility Plant Manager, Nuclear Operations Director and finally Nuclear Safety and Quality Director.

Mark joined Cavendish Nuclear in April 2013 as Managing Director, Dounreay and during his 2½ years there helped steer the site through several significant contractual, safety and organisational challenges. He then spent the next 4 years establishing Cavendish Nuclear Japan and securing several first of kind decommissioning contracts with Japanese businesses. 

Mark rejoined Dounreay as MD in March 2020, guiding it through Covid, the process of re-joining the NDA Group and finally the joining with Magnox to form NRS. In June 2024 as part of the NDA’s support to the Nuclear Skills Plan, Mark joined the Nuclear Sector Skills Team as Skills Director and co-chair of the Nuclear Skills Delivery Board, leveraging his career in defence, civil, private, and public sector companies to help tackle this nationally important challenge.

Mark is married to Carole and has two adult daughters.