Defence jobs in Regno Unito

Job Title: Training Delivery Manager

Location: Wareham, Dorset

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70385

Lead a team shaping the future of defence training – make an impact that matters.

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 Delivery Manager at Bovington, near Dorset.

As a Training Delivery Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll provide effective leadership and operational oversight for a team of defence trainers delivering critical training on Armoured Fighting Vehicles to military students. This is a role where your ability to lead, coach, and inspire will directly influence the success of our training programmes and the readiness of our armed forces.

• Manage, lead, and develop a team of 15 defence trainers to achieve high performance
• Plan and allocate tasks for trainers, ensuring delivery meets contractual requirements
• Oversee health and safety, conduct risk assessments, and maintain compliance standards
• Liaise with the customer (MOD) to ensure training objectives are met
• Promote a positive, inclusive, and accountable team culture

The role is based onsite at Bovington, and the set working times are 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

• Proficient in IT with the ability to produce data reports
• Experience managing teams within a training environment
• Strong leadership and coaching skills
• Ability to plan and allocate resources effectively
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Defence Trainer Supervisor (DTS) or equivalent
• Full UK manual driving licence

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).

• 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 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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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: 09/01/2026