Job Title: Training Instructor Marine Engineering
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £45, - £57, dependent on experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Training Instructor Marine Engineering at our Clyde, Faslane site.
The role
As a Training Instructor Marine Engineering, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll be a Subject Matter Expert (SME), providing specialist engineering and nuclear knowledge to the training design process. You’ll have the opportunity to support the development of the recently established Babcock Skills business, which provides a wide range of engineering training courses.
Day to day, you’ll collaborate with our Astute-class Training Service team at Babcock Marine Training Limited (BMTL), to help train the current and next generation of Submarine Service engineering professionals.
1. Provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) support to evaluate technical data and notifications of change on existing Marine Engineering and Nuclear Steam Raising Plant courseware
2. Identify the impact of change on the courseware
3. Collaborate with the training design team to update the courseware, based on technical changes
4. Deliver classroom and simulator-based training to Nuclear Propulsion Plant Operators and Marine Engineering Equipment Maintainers.
5. Deliver additional training (Confined Space, Working at Height, etc.) to students outside the ACTS program, ensuring it meets prescribed quality and cost standards.
6. Provide ongoing SME support for routine review and revision of the courseware.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week, and will be based at HMNB Clyde, near Helensburgh.
Essential experience of the Training Instructor:
7. Technical Expertise: Comprehensive knowledge of Naval Nuclear Steam Raising Plant operation
8. Recent experience in this field (highlighting up-to-date knowledge and practical skills)
9. Comfortable working collaboratively and autonomously
10. Engaging communicator, with the ability to capture audience attention and deliver information effectively
Qualifications for the Training Instructor:
11. Royal Navy Submarine Service: Category A or B Watchkeeping Qualification
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (
What we offer
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Contributory pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Employee share scheme
15. Employee shopping savings portal
16. Payment of Professional Fees
17. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
18. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
19. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.