Training Manager

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 were working to create a safe and secure world together. If you join us you can play your part as a Training Manager at our Bristol or Plymouth site near Bristol or Plymouth.

The role

As a Training Manager youll 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 youll 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. Youll 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.

Day-to-day youll be required:

• 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. 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 through managing external training providers and internal instructors
• Allocates appropriate resources to projects where there is a training line of activity. Identifying and communicating Technical Risk Assumptions Issues Dependencies and Opportunities (RAIDO) for assigned work packages linked to the Programme Level RAIDO. Developing estimates of engineering activity duration and resource requirement
• Leads the training input to the Mission Systems bidding process. Responsible for cross BU and Sector relationships for training

This role is full time 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements depending on business needs with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Training Manager

• Ability to produce high quality comprehensive reports to articulate training outputs to senior stakeholders with strong facilitation and learner engagement capabilities.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability 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 as well as principles including identifying & 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 for the Training Manager

• Practical knowledge of DSAT (JSP822) (Defence Systems approach to training)
• Relevant qualifications (e.g. teaching engineering at Level 6 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 Sole UK National.

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 - ().

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 days paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Flexible working we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

Were Babcock a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26000 people working together to make a difference.

Here youll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together were building a future that lasts not just through the impact we make but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go together.

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 with the subject header Reasonable adjustments requirement. Were committed to building an inclusive culture where everyones free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 26/06/2026

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