Centre Manager — Training Quality & Accreditation Lead

Fuse Energy; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Equity options

Full-time role

Job summary

Fuse Energy is establishing a Birmingham Training Centre to train engineers and assess in-house. This Centre Manager role leads daily operations, owns quality and accreditation, and builds Birmingham into a fully accredited training operation.

It is a leadership and quality-assurance position, not hands-on training, overseeing trainers and ensuring standards. The role requires IQA, AET, and TAQA/CAVA qualifications, experience running a training centre, and a hands-on technical background in

Qualifications

• Level 4 IQA (IQA/V1 or equivalent) for cross-centre verification.
• Level 3 Award in Education and Training (AET).
• Recognised assessor qualification (TAQA, CAVA or equivalent).
• Experience managing a training centre, workshop, or similar operation with people and budget ownership.
• Hands-on technical background in smart metering, electrical, EV installation, heat pumps, solar, or BESS.
• Experience owning compliance and quality standards for a training operation and liaison with awarding bodies.
• Health & safety leadership across technical or practical work.

Responsibilities

• Run day-to-day operation of the training centre - facilities, scheduling, budget, and team.
• Lead and line-manage the training team.
• Own the centre's quality-management system and lead internal quality assurance - sampling and verifying assessments.
• Own the centre's accreditation: act as contact for awarding bodies and manage audits.
• Build and maintain the centre's compliance framework - health & safety, safeguarding, data protection, equality & diversity, malpractice and appeals.
• Lead health & safety across a site with live gas and electrical practical work.
• Drive continuous improvement across the centre's training and quality operations.

Skills

Leadership

Budget management

Quality assurance

Health & safety leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Level 4 IQA (IQA/V1)

Level 3 Award in Education and Training

TAQA / CAVA or equivalent

Job description

Fuse Energy is establishing a Birmingham Training Centre to train engineers and assess in-house. This Centre Manager role leads daily operations, owns quality and accreditation, and builds Birmingham into a fully accredited training operation.

It is a leadership and quality-assurance position, not hands-on training, overseeing trainers and ensuring standards. The role requires IQA, AET, and TAQA/CAVA qualifications, experience running a training centre, and a hands-on technical background in