Role
Job Title: Training Manager
Location: Bristol or Plymouth (Hybrid Working Arrangements)
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74358
Shape the future of defence training and capability.
At Babcock, we are working to create a safe and secure world together. As a Training Manager, you will lead the creation and delivery of innovative training solutions that enhance defence readiness across land, air, maritime, and cyber domains.
This role offers a rare opportunity to influence how teams prepare for real‑world operations and ensure personnel are fully equipped, confident, and mission ready. You will collaborate with engineering teams, operational experts, and defence stakeholders, translating complex technologies into impactful learning experiences while advancing your own career in a fast‑growing, high‑impact environment.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead the training strategy and delivery plan for new equipment programmes, managing training delivery schedules aligned with equipment roll‑out timelines across the engineering lifecycle.
* Support continuous improvement and lessons learned processes to provide assurance of the end‑to‑end training solution.
* Ensure compliance with defence standards, safety regulations, and operational procedures. Evaluate training effectiveness through performance metrics, feedback, and operational readiness measures.
* Oversee training documentation, manuals, and instructional materials, managing external training providers and internal instructors.
* Allocate appropriate resources to projects with a training line of activity. Identify and communicate Technical Risk, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies, and Opportunities (RAIDO) for assigned work packages linked to the Programme Level RAIDO. Develop estimates of engineering activity, duration, and resource requirement.
* Lead the training input to the Mission Systems bidding process and manage cross‑BU and sector relationships for training.
Essential Experience
* Ability to produce high‑quality, comprehensive reports to articulate training outcomes to senior stakeholders, with strong facilitation and learner engagement capabilities.
* Strong analytical skills, applying evaluation methodologies (e.g., Kirkpatrick model), interpreting data, and driving decisions to demonstrate learning impact and continuous improvement.
* Experience managing training projects from concept to delivery, including identifying and setting training requirements and managing project‑related risks and scheduling.
* Capacity to collaborate with internal teams and defence clients to identify training needs and align solutions with strategic objectives.
Qualifications
* Practical knowledge of DSAT (JSP822) – Defence Systems approach to training.
* Relevant qualifications (e.g., teaching, engineering at Level 6+ or domain expertise).
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Must be a Sole UK National.
Many roles within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. Your eligibility may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, or any residency you hold or have held.
Benefits
* Generous holiday allowance
* Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
* Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
* Employee share scheme
* Employee shopping savings portal
* Payment of Professional Fees
* Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days of special paid leave
* Holiday trading – ability to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave
* Be Kind Day – one paid leave day per year for volunteering with a chosen organisation or registered charity
* Flexible working – more options to integrate work and personal life while meeting business needs
* A dynamic working environment
Inclusion and Equality
We are a disability‑confident committed employer. If you have a disability or require reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header "Reasonable adjustments requirement". We are committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and we are happy to discuss flexible work arrangements during the interview.
Closing date: 26/06/2026
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