Training and Competency Manager

Babcock International; Walsall; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Healthcare and wellbeing benefits

Employee shopping portal

Professional fees paid

Special paid leave for Reservists

Holiday trading window

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock International in Walsall is seeking a Training and Competency Manager to build and lead a new function, developing workforce capability for specialist vehicle engineering. You will design a long-term competency and qualifications strategy, align pathways with business needs, and enable growth while collaborating with senior stakeholders.

The role requires leadership, experience in training/competency programmes, and the ability to navigate regulatory requirements; on-site, 37.5 hours

Qualifications

• Leadership and people development capability.
• Experience designing and delivering training, competency, or workforce development programmes.
• Ability to interpret and apply regulatory and compliance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver a long-term competency and qualifications strategy across vehicle engineering.
• Develop qualification pathways and oversee apprenticeship programmes from enrolment to completion.
• Implement training systems, learner tracking, and competence assurance processes; manage the training budget.

Skills

Leadership

Programme management

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Commercial awareness

Education

NVQ Level 3 in engineering or technical discipline

Assessor qualification (A1 or CAVA)

IQA/V1 qualification or willingness to obtain

Job description

Job Title: Training and Competency Manager

Location: Walsall, West Midlands

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75662

Shape The Future Skills Of a Growing Engineering Workforce

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Training and Competency Manager at our Walsall site.

The role

As a Training and Competency Manager, you'll have the opportunity to build and lead a newly created function that will play a critical role in developing workforce capability across our specialist vehicle engineering business.

This is more than a training role. You'll be responsible for designing and delivering a long-term competency and qualifications strategy that ensures our people have the skills needed to support complex vehicle conversion, armouring, and modification programmes. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you'll identify skills gaps, develop qualification pathways, and create a sustainable skills pipeline that will support future business growth.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Developing qualification and competency pathways aligned to operational and business requirements by arranging nationally recognised vocational qualifications (Levels 1–3) across vehicle electrical, mechanical, coachbuilding and coded welding disciplines.
• Managing vocational qualifications and apprenticeship programmes from enrolment through to successful completion.
• Implementing and maintaining training systems, learner tracking, and competence assurance processes along with managing the training budget.
• Collaborating with operational leaders to identify skills gaps and deliver workforce development initiatives.
• Supporting apprentices and employees through structured development programmes while ensuring compliance with relevant standards.

This role is based on site at Walsall, working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with an early finish every Friday.

Essential experience of the Training and Competency Manager

• Strong leadership, mentoring, and people development capability.
• Experience developing and managing training, competency, or workforce development programmes.
• Ability to interpret and apply regulatory and compliance frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and engage at all levels.
• Commercial awareness and the ability to balance cost, value, and risk.

Qualifications for the Training and Competency Manager

• NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in a relevant engineering or technical discipline.
• Assessor qualification such as A1 or CAVA.
• Internal Quality Assurer qualification (V1/IQA), or willingness to obtain this qualification with support from Babcock.

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 [e-mail] 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: 07/10/2026