Training Coordinator in Blackburn

Are you ready to play a key role in supporting Vital Energi's exciting growth strategy? The opportunity is to join our dynamic People team at our Head Office, Blackburn, as a Training & Skills Coordinator. In this role, you will support the organisation in developing workforce capability and identifying role-specific training requirements across the business. This role ensures all employees have access to the right skills development opportunities, and that compliance records are accurate, up to date, and audit-ready.

Working closely with the People Team, you will support the creation, coordination, and delivery of training programmes, particularly e-learning to meet mandatory and desirable workforce development and compliance requirements. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to take ownership, shape the role, and make a real impact on how we develop and support our people.

The Role:

• Take responsibility for the booking, delivery and scheduling of internal and external training sessions, liaising directly with employees, management and providers.
• Provide guidance to managers on training requirements and completion status.
• Support new starters with onboarding and compliance induction processes.
• Use the training database to monitor upcoming course expiry.
• Coordinate skills development programmes, workshops, and learning activities across the organisation.
• Track attendance, completions, and outcomes to ensure learning objectives are met.
• Assist in identifying skills gaps using data, feedback, and manager input.
• Maintain training calendars, communications, and resources.
• Develop training programs (outsourced and/or in-house).
• Maintain full oversight of all statutory, regulatory, and role-specific training requirements, ensuring the organisation meets legal obligations (e.g., safeguarding, data protection, health & safety, fire safety, sector-specific compliance) ensuring deadlines are met.
• Monitor training completion through the LMS or compliance tracking tools.
• Ensure timely escalation of compliance risks by notifying managers of overdue training and highlighting potential breaches or gaps that may impact accreditation, regulatory inspections, or insurance requirements.
• Support audit preparation with accurate, accessible, and fully documented compliance records.
• Maintain learning platforms, ensuring content, user records, and reporting are accurate.
• Coordinate with suppliers and training providers, managing bookings and associated paperwork.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Essential: Successful portfolio within a Training Coordinator role.
• Experience in compliance-heavy or regulated environments - specifically construction.
• Strong digital and data skills, including Excel.
• Experience using or maintaining a learning management system (or equivalent platform).
• Excellent stakeholder management skills (Internally/Externally).

Qualifications:

• 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) Grade C and above.
• CIPD Level 3 or above (desirable) ideally in L&D related subject.
• NVQ or similar in HR/training or related background (preferably in training delivery).

Applications will be processed within 28 days of receipt. If you have not heard from us within this time period it will mean that your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful. The company is opposed to all forms of discrimination and will select for employment, training and promotion on the basis of suitability for the job and/or merit. It is company policy that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of sex, race, colour, age, ethnic or national origins, political affiliations, religious beliefs, marital status, physical disability or is disadvantaged by unjustifiable conditions or requirements. Applicants must have the unrestricted and ongoing right to work in the UK for the duration of employment, without the need for sponsorship. Due to the nature of this role, we are unable to support visa sponsorship or employ individuals with time-limited permission or conditions attached to their right to work in the UK.

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: Vital Energi Utilities Ltd is not accepting unsolicited CVs from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. CVs submitted to any Vital Energi Utilities Ltd employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Vital Energi Utilities Ltd. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral.