Owen Shankland

Talent Specialist at General Dynamics UK Limited

Owen Shankland is a seasoned Talent Specialist currently employed at General Dynamics UK Limited since June 2025. Prior to this role, Owen served as a Recruitment Manager at LDMS from July 2024 to May 2025. From January 2022 to July 2024, Owen worked as a Recruitment Advisor at Cardiff Metropolitan University and held the position of Internal Recruiter at SYNLAB UK & Ireland from January 2020 to January 2022. Owen began a career in recruitment as a Resourcing Manager at Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult from November 2018 to November 2019. Owen holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Film/Cinema/Video Studies from Aberystwyth University, where attendance spanned from January 2005 to January 2008, and completed earlier education at Afon Taf High School from January 1998 to January 2005.

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General Dynamics UK Limited

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General Dynamics UK is one of the UK’s leading defence companies and an important supplier to the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). We have more than 60 years’ experience delivering C4I communication solutions, Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV) capability and avionic systems. We also provide tactical communications systems to the UK Armed Forces. Bowman is our current communication system, and developing the next-generation tactical communication and information system, known as Evolve to Open (EvO). This will be used to plan, deploy, manage and monitor communications and information for the British Army. We have designed and developed AJAX, the future of Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFV), for the British Army, with 589 vehicles being delivered from our site in South Wales. In addition, we provide a range of avionic systems that are used on different types of military aircraft around the world.


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