Operations Instructor

Job Title:              Astute Class Operations Instructor
Location:              Faslane
Compensation:    Attractive Salary
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent
Role ID:                SF56046

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 Astute Class Operations Instructor at our Faslane site.

The role
As an Astute Class Operations Instructor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll deliver Operations training for Tactical or Sonar systems, provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) input into the analysis and solution development for technical change to the existing product and to provide SME advice in support to Marine Training’s projects. 

Day to day, you’ll provide training to students with a wide range of experience, predominantly within Operations Training discipline but also to provide assistance with generic training, liaise with the Training Design team and provide support for the routine review and amendment of operations courseware, and conduct all administration and reporting activities associated with the delivery of training to contractual requirement and as otherwise directed by the management team.

• Accountable to the Operations Manager: provide training to students with a wide range of experience, predominantly within operations discipline but also to provide assistance with generic training, for example Astute Class Familiarisation. All training is to be delivered to prescribed standards and within contractual requirements
• Provide training to students with a wide range of experience, external to the ACTS contract. Training is to be delivered to prescribed standards, quality and cost
• Courseware maintenance: liaise with the Training Design (TD) team and provide SME support for the routine review and amendment of OPS or SMQ courseware
• Provide Subject Matter Expert support to the review and evaluation of technical data/notifications of change, identifying the impact of change on existing courseware. Liaison with the TD team to implement required change.

This is a full time role based on site at Faslane. 

Essential experience of the Operations Instructor:

• Comprehensive knowledge and recent experience of operating Submarine Tactical or Sonar Systems
• Experience of Submarine Control Room management

Qualifications for the Operations Instructor:

• Qualification as an Operations Warrant Officer/Senior Rating with relevant experience, in the Royal Navy Submarine Service

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 
• Contributory pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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 most 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.

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: 06/05/2024