Training Manager in Andover

Location: Bristol or Plymouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the future of defence training and capability. At Babcock, we’re 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.

The role:

• As a Training Manager, you’ll take the lead in shaping and delivering innovative training solutions that enhance defence readiness across land, air, maritime, and cyber domains.
• You’ll 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.
• You’ll collaborate with engineering teams, operational experts, and defence stakeholders, helping to translate complex technologies into impactful learning experiences.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll 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.
• Allocate appropriate resources to projects where there is a training line of activity.
• Identify and communicate Technical Risk, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies and Opportunities (RAIDO) for assigned work packages linked to the Programme Level RAIDO.
• Develop estimates of engineering activity, duration and resource requirement.
• Lead the training input to the Mission Systems bidding process.
• Be responsible for cross BU and Sector relationships for training.

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.

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.
• 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.

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you’ll 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, we’re 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 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: 26/06/2026