Job Title:               Head of Training
Location:               Andover, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:     Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:                SF61944

 

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 Head of Training at our Andover site.

 

The role
As a Head of Training, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll have a pivotal leadership role within the Business Unit, encompassing management of workshop competency, apprentice delivery, adult career progression, and the organisation's bespoke leadership program, aligning all training initiatives with business goals and operational excellence.

 

Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing a comprehensive training framework that ensures the development of technical, professional, and leadership skills across the organisation. This role offers the opportunity to shape the skills and capabilities of a dynamic workforce, ensuring the organisation remains a leader in equipment maintenance and related disciplines. You’ll also:

 

Manage the training department’s budget, ensuring cost-effective delivery of high-quality programs. Optimize the use of training resources, including facilities, equipment, and technology Collaborate with senior management to identify current and future training needs. Act as a liaison with military clients, ensuring training aligns with their operational requirements and expectation Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of training professionals, instructors, and coordinators to achieve training objectives

 

This position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

 

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office/onsite and days working from home.

 

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview. 

 

Essential experience of the Head of Training:

Proven experience in a senior training or workforce development role, ideally within a technical, engineering, or Defence environment Evidence of delivering a training transformation programme Experience managing apprenticeship programs and adult learning initiatives Demonstrated success in designing and delivering leadership development programs Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills

 

Qualifications for the Head of Training:

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

 

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 (www.gov.uk).

 

What we offer

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 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 ‘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 Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

 

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

 

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

 

Closing date: 11/02/2025