Engineering Skills Trainer

Job Title:              Engineering Skills Trainer
Location:              Ashton Vale, Bristol
Compensation:    Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF60219

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Skills Trainer at our Ashton Vale, Bristol site.

The Role
As an Engineering Skills Trainer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will have the opportunity to train and develop the next generation of engineers, passing on skills in a high complex low volume environment, providing products for defence of the realm.

Day-to-day, you’ll be part of the Manufacturing Maintenance Repair and Overhaul production team reporting to the Early Careers Lead. You will design and deliver the work-based training for the machinist, fitting and inspection apprentices and graduate engineers. Always Ensuring safety and discipline.

• Ensuring the health and safety of the apprentices – The highest standards of health and safety must be installed into the apprentices. New technology and practices should also be reviewed to improve safety where possible.
• Designing and Delivering Schemes of Works – The apprenticeship needs to be structured for the apprentices to gain the knowledge skills and behaviours to meet the apprenticeship standard, but also gain the relevant experience in their chosen discipline.
• Maintaining discipline and wellbeing of apprentices – Apprentices are often in their first professional job. You will need to instil good work ethics and Babcock beliefs into them.
• Evaluate work – Apprenticeships are a time for learning and development. The work they produce needs to be evaluate and feedback given. This could be in verbal or written formats.
• Collaborative working with Further Education Provider – The work and training completed at work needs to support the college learning. You will need to work with Further Education to ensure this is done.
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics – Working with the early careers lead to design and complete sessions to attract new talent into Babcock through Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics outreach.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Ashton Vale, Bristol.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview. 

Essential Experience and Qualifications of the Engineering Skills Trainer 

• Knowledge in machining, and fitting.
• National Vocational Qualifications Machining or Engineering Fitting.
• Significant years of experience low volume, high complexity production.
• Ability to programme Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines using various languages.

Desirable Experience and Qualifications of the Engineering Skills Trainer 

• Certificate in Education and Training or equivalent, or completion within 18-months of appointment. 
• Knowledge of apprenticeship standards.
   

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance for this role. However, you will be able to start on Standard (BPSS) security clearance but you will need to obtain Security Clearance (SC) in post.
 

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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• Opportunity to work with innovative technology
• Potential to develop skills
• Opportunity to work on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer
• A relocation package for those outside of the region

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: 07/11/2024

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