Commissioning Training and Competency Coordinator

Job Title:                     Training and Competency Coordinator

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:           £45,692 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF71795

Help Build the Capability of the Submarine Workforce

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 and Competency Coordinator at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Training and Competency Coordinator, you’ll play a vital role in developing the skills, capability and readiness of the Submarine Commissioning Group. This is an exciting opportunity to support teams working on some of the UK’s most critical defence assets, helping ensure the workforce has the right training, experience and documentation to carry out specialist commissioning activities safely and effectively.

Day-to-day, you’ll shape and deliver training courses, support competency assessment, work closely with subject matter experts, and introduce new ways to embed experiential learning across the dockyard and other environments.

• Ensure Submarine Commissioning Group personnel have accurate documentation to record and demonstrate their training and experience.
• Develop and deliver training courses, including coaching, mentoring and learning support materials.
• Work collaboratively with commissioning subject matter experts to build and refine technical training content.
• Identify opportunities to expand experiential learning across the dockyard and external environments.
• Support the Capability team to strengthen training governance, competency assurance and continuous improvement.

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

Essential experience of the Training and Competency Coordinator

• Background in training and competency development.
• Ability to work effectively with subject matter experts to develop technical training materials.
• Demonstrated alignment with Babcock’s Purpose and Principles.
• Willingness to undertake instructional delivery training if not already held.
• (Desirable) Knowledge of submarine electrical systems and understanding of commissioning activities relating to safety.

Qualifications for the Training and Competency Coordinator

• Level 3 qualification or equivalent in a relevant discipline, with membership of an appropriate professional institution.

• Educational or competency assessment qualifications - Desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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 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

Babcock

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: 04/03/2026

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