Courseware Designer

Raytheon UK; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension

Life assurance (6x salary)

25 days holiday + holidays

Company bonus (discretionary)

Flexible benefits

Enhanced family leave

Enhanced sick pay

Job summary

Raytheon UK is seeking a Courseware Designer to develop training courseware for military training, covering analysis, design, maintenance and production of DSAT documentation and processes.

You will interview experts, contribute to Training Design across templates, and ensure up-to-date course information, safety standards, and accreditation considerations while working in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills at all levels, both internally and with the customer.
• Experience in course design and contributing to significant training courses.
• Familiarity with training design and development processes for training media.

Responsibilities

• Develop training courseware through analysis, design, maintenance and production of DSAT documentation and processes.
• Produce, maintain and update training design from FTS to ASpec in DSAT templates.
• Interview subject matter experts to gather required data.
• Participate in internal workshops to discuss findings and agree on analyses.
• Maintain course syllabi, standards, trainer qualifications and resources.

Skills

Excellent communication

Course design

Articulate 360

Autonomous & team working

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Articulate 360

Job description

• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Courseware Designer

Location: Near Reading

Permanent

Benefits:

• £: Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.

About Us

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.

Through advanced technology and our people’s expertise, our Training Transformation Services is modernising what’s possible in the training and preparation of our armed forces. With a real blended approach to learning and using the latest innovative systems and technology, we ensure our service men and women really are prepared for any situation.

Role & Responsibilities

The Courseware Designer will develop training courseware through the analysis, design, maintenance, review and production of DSAT Documentation & processes for military training.

Responsibilities

• Work as a member of a team responsible for the analysis, design, maintenance, review and production of DSAT Documentation & processes for military training sites and organisations.
• Producing, maintaining and/or updating Training Design from: Formal Training Statement (FTS) (including the Training Performance Statement (TPS), Training Objectives (TOs), Workplace Training Statement (WTS) and Residual Training Gap Statement (RTGS) to delivery of Assessment Strategy (AStrat) and Assessment Specification (ASpec), Learning Specification (LSpec) Training Authorisation Document (TrAD) in DSAT compliant course templates.
• Interviewing subject matter experts to collate required data.
• Participate in internal workshops to discuss and agree findings from analysis.
• The upkeep, update and revalidation of course syllabi and standards, trainer competence, qualification and experience requirements.
• Conducting the upkeep, update, and revalidation of course information, including but not limited to, course size limits, health and safety, relevant rules and regulations, course length and required support and resources.
• Conducting and maintain Training Design in response to new training requirements, including those arising from New Capabilities, to ensure that training satisfies operational / workplace performance requirements, provides the design output requirements required by the Authority and is kept up-to-date. Updating Training Design materials to incorporate relevant recommendations and feedback from internal and external assurance, to ensure that training remains up-to-date and satisfies operational/workplace performance requirements.
• Identifying opportunities to provide accreditation for new and/or amended training as designed, and/or any amendments or implications for existing accreditations following Training Design changes.
• Be ‘Responsible for championing and fostering a culture of Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) compliance and continuous improvement’.
• Any other duties required to complete the CMDC Training Service

Required Experience

• Excellent communication skills at all levels both internally and within the customer organisation.
• Experience in course design and have contributed to the design of significant training courses.
• A good working knowledge of the training design and development processes for training media.
• Experienced and capable of working autonomously and within a team.
• Experience of Articulate 360.

Desirable Experience

• Experience in organisational design and development.
• Experience in the development of apprenticeship qualifications.
• Degree level education in a relevant area.
• Teaching and training development qualification at degree level.
• Human Resource Development qualification and experience.
• Membership of an appropriate professional body such as CIPD.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.