Senior Training Designer in Bath, Somerset

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• 6 times salary 'Life Assurance' with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Car/Car allowance (dependant on grade/role)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
• Private Medical Insurance - dependant on grade

Work Culture:

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role).

About us:

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence. Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do.

Our Business:

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers' toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development. Through advanced technology and our people's expertise, our Training Transformation Services is modernising what's possible in the training and preparation of our armed forces.

Role & Responsibilities:

In this role you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference to the Royal Navy Training Design Service. As the Senior Training Designer you'll support the Integrated Training Design Service to deliver learning that is blended, active and provides customer delight.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for all training courses assigned to you with regards to training transformation.
• An advocate for the creation of training content that is not only active and engaging, but also inclusive and learner centric.
• Ensuring the processes that support the review and change of training courses follow the end-to-end training design process, are DSAT (Defense Systems Approach to Training) compliant, considering media enhancements and adherence to quality standards.
• Proactively addressing, resolving and escalating any challenges that may impact delay to delivery.
• Experience of developing DSAT documentation in TAFMIS is essential.
• Responsible for the production and development of high-quality Training design, e-learning and courseware materials (as required).
• Developing and designing training courseware using a variety of media and technology.
• Contribute to the development of overall instructional strategy, being able to analyse and implement changes to training programmes, identifying effective and ineffective instructional design training methodologies.
• Proactively seeking feedback and impact stories to further enhance training courses and to continuously improve and celebrate the work completed.
• Ensure that any changes derived from internal and external validation are incorporated into all training design activity to ensure that training remains up-to-date and satisfies operational / workplace performance requirements.
• Building strong stakeholder relationships with subject matter experts to positively contribute towards training transformation.
• Identify opportunities to provide accreditation for new and/or amended training as designed, and/or any amendments or implications for existing accreditations following Training Design changes.
• Act as a technical lead to ensure that processes follow latest direction and guidance in accordance with defence policy.
• Responsible for the continuous professional development of yourself, and the coaching of Training Designers that you are allocated to set them up for success.
• Employees are responsible for their own Health and Safety and that of work colleagues and customers.
• Follow security standards and system requirements to protect data and ensure smooth operations.
• Any other duties required to support the Integrated Training Design Service.

Required experience:

• Demonstrate previous experience from a Learning and Development role.
• Demonstrate a passion for learning and development and the development of others.
• Demonstrate excellent collaboration, communication and adept at building strong relationships.
• Be an ambassador for learning, collaboration, and demonstrate best practices within the team.
• Demonstrate attention to detail, a passion for quality and be able to plan and multitask.
• Enthusiastic to learn, collaborate, and demonstrate best practices within the business and customers.
• Adopt a flexible approach to the role, adapt to evolving priorities.

Desirable experience:

• ADDIE model and Defence Systems Approach to Training (DSAT).
• Training and/or Instructional Design.
• Programme management tools and applications.
• Knowledge and practical experience of UK Ministry Defence procedures and policies.
• Contributing in a team environment for the purpose of developing creative solutions to technical problems.

RTX:

Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses - Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.

Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over £2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We're investing in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland and 1,600 in Wales.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.