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Senior Training Designer

Senior Training Designer

locationPlymouth, UK
PublishedPublished: 18/09/2025
Full time

Job Title: Senior Training Designer

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £43,935 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF63263

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 Senior Training Designer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Senior Training Designer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. As a Senior Training Designer, you’ll be a key member of the People Capability Enhancement Programme (PCEP), pioneering impactful training solutions that define workforce excellence. You’ll lead design activities, collaborate with stakeholders, and shape competency-driven interventions that support the regeneration of submarine capability. This is a unique opportunity to influence learning strategy in a complex engineering environment and grow your career in a high-profile programme.

Day-to-day, you’ll maintain training programme activity through design and stakeholder engagement, develop blended learning outcomes, and ensure consistency and quality in delivery.

  • Acting as a focal point within the Training Design team to maintain programme activity
  • Conducting design activity to create blended outcomes tailored to competency requirements
  • Presenting design concepts and proposed solutions to functional competency leads
  • Supporting the development of training interventions through learning objectives
  • Providing guidance to trainers to ensure consistency and quality in delivery

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Senior Training Designer

  • Experience in the defence sector (desirable)
  • Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Office Suite
  • Extensive previous experience in a complex engineering or educational environment
  • Familiarity with compliance training and defence industry standards

Qualifications for the Senior Training Designer

  • Foundation degree (Level 4) in training analysis or technical discipline
  • Degree level (Level 5) qualification or equivalent experience - Desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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

  • 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
  • ‘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: 02/10/2025

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