Job Title: Training Designer
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £38,084 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56268
Create training that shapes the future of national defence
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 Training Designer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
As a Training Designer, you’ll play a crucial role in transforming how the technical workforce across Devonport develops the skills needed to maintain complex defence assets such as submarines and warships. This is a rare opportunity to influence how an entire industrial workforce is trained, accelerating time to competence, shaping future capability, and contributing directly to national security.
Day-to-day, you’ll be working within a newly established and highly innovative team as part of the People Capability Enhancement Programme (PCEP). It’s an exciting environment with a real sense of purpose—where your ideas and expertise will influence training solutions that support some of the UK’s most critical defence engineering programmes.
- Support early design activities using a Systems Approach to Training (SAT).
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to analyse role requirements and define core competencies.
- Influence and shape effective training interventions for current and future workforce needs.
- Determine component elements of competency profiles to support high‑quality training solutions.
- Contribute to raising training standards and sustainable outcomes across the PCEP programme.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 4 days in the office/onsite and 1 day working from home.
Essential experience of the Training Designer
- Training design and delivery experience, with the ability to use analysis to identify training needs.
- Strong IT capability, including proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
- Relevant technical or business experience gained in a complex engineering or educational environment, with transferable experience considered.
- Familiarity with compliance training requirements and training standards within regulated industries.
- Experience in technical learning environments or exposure to defence or other highly regulated sectors - Desirable
Qualifications for the Training Designer
- Minimum NVQ Level 3 / ONC in a technical discipline or similar.
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
- 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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.
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: 14/04/2026
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