As a Training Manager, you'll take the lead in shaping and delivering innovative training solutions that enhance defence readiness across land, air, maritime, and cyber domains. Working at the heart of our Mission Systems business, you'll drive the analysis, design, and delivery of training programmes for cutting‑edge equipment and technologies. This is a rare opportunity to influence how teams prepare for real‑world operations, ensuring personnel are fully equipped, confident, and mission ready. You'll collaborate with engineering teams, operational experts, and defence stakeholders, helping to translate complex technologies into impactful learning experiences while advancing your own career in a fast‑growing, high‑impact environment.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week, with hybrid working arrangements depending on business needs, with days onsite and days working from home.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the training strategy and delivery plan for new equipment programmes; manage training delivery schedules aligned with equipment roll‑out timelines across the engineering lifecycle.
- 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 resources to training activities, identify and communicate technical risk, assumptions, issues, dependencies and opportunities (RAIDO) for assigned work packages, and develop estimates of engineering activity, duration and resource requirements.
- Lead the training input to the Mission Systems bidding process and be responsible for cross‑BU and sector relationships for training.
Key Capabilities
- Ability to produce high‑quality, comprehensive reports to articulate training outputs to senior stakeholders, with strong facilitation and learner engagement capabilities.
- Strong analytical skills to apply evaluation methodologies (e.g., Kirkpatrick model), interpret data and drive decisions to demonstrate learning impact and continuous improvement.
- Ability to manage training projects from concept to delivery, including identifying and setting training requirements, managing project‑related risks and scheduling.
- Ability 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 such as teaching or engineering at Level 6+; domain expertise.
- Ability to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance. Must be a Sole UK National.
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 special paid leave.
- Holiday Trading – option to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ – one day paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) for volunteering work with chosen organisation or registered charity.
- Flexible working – more options to integrate work and personal life while ensuring business needs are met.
- A dynamic working environment.
