Senior Training Developer

Babcock International · Devonport · £33,900–£42,400 (stated in the posting)

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Job Title:                      Senior Training Developer

Location:                      Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:            £33,900 – £42,400 + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                         SF76602

Shape the future of learning that supports 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 Senior Training Developer at our Devonport site.

The role

As a Senior Training Developer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll play a pivotal role in developing innovative learning solutions that support workforce capability across some of the UK's most important defence programmes. Working as part of the People Capability Enhancement Programme, you'll collaborate with technical specialists, operational stakeholders and learning professionals to create high-quality training interventions that help build the skills needed to deliver critical national defence outputs.

Day-to-day you'll be required to:

• Leading and coordinating training development activities across strategic capability programmes.
• Developing engaging learning products and training solutions that meet operational, business and compliance requirements.
• Collaborating with subject matter experts and stakeholders to identify competency requirements and design effective learning interventions.
• Evaluating training effectiveness and implementing continuous improvements across the learning lifecycle.
• Supporting workforce capability by ensuring learning solutions align with organisational and programme objectives.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Senior Training Developer

• Experience leading teams and delivering complex projects or programmes.
• Strong expertise in learning design, training development methodologies and the creation of learning assets.
• Experience partnering with subject matter experts to develop and implement learning solutions.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret competency requirements and translate them into effective training interventions.
• Experience gained within a complex engineering, technical, training or educational environment.

Qualifications for the Senior Training Developer

• Degree-level qualification (or equivalent) in learning and development, training, education, or a relevant technical discipline.
• Foundation Degree (Level 4) or equivalent qualification and experience in a training, learning, development or technical discipline.
• Experience within the defence sector would be advantageous.

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 29,000 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: 05/11/2026

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