Coppersmith​/Pipefitter Trainer

Help get better trained personnel to the front line faster – This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced professional to make a lasting impact by mentoring the next generation of Royal Navy engineers—leveraging your career expertise without the need for prior teaching experience! Project Selborne is a Transformational Training programme with a strategic goal of modernising Royal Navy training to deliver “better trained sailors to the front line faster”.

Your role will be to provide support to the delivery of training across Coppersmith/Pipefitter skills area within Skill of Hand Training group.

Full-time role, 37.5 hours a week on a term time only basis. HMS Sultan, Portsmouth.

Due to the nature of this role, you must be eligible for UK Security Clearance at SC level.

• Provide training on how to fit pipework on ships from a drawing (Fit from design)
• Teaching Brazing techniques
• Maintain strong working relationships with customers and colleagues within the Marine Engineering Electrical training area.
• Support trainee development through assessment, feedback, and personalised learning approaches.
• Maintain and update training materials, and contribute to modernising and improving training delivery.
• Ensure compliance with KPIs, SLAs, and safety standards, while maintaining a CPD portfolio.

• Minimum Level 3 Technical Certificate in an Engineering discipline
• Be proficient in the use of IT (hardware/software) within the workplace
• Competent practical Coppersmith/Pipefitter hand skills
• Proven experience in workshop/industry principles

• Level 4 Teaching Qualification / DCTS Defence Train The Trainer Course or equivalent (successful completion)
• Previous instructional experience in a military or civilian engineering environment

Selborne is a bold, £1 billion, 12-year transformation of Royal Navy training, led by Capita and a powerhouse consortium known as Team Fisher — including Raytheon UK, Fujitsu, and the University of Lincoln. Together, we're modernising military education with cutting-edge tech like simulators and data analytics, all under a collaborative 'one team' approach with the Royal Navy. It’s a shared mission to deliver smarter, more effective training for sailors and marines across the naval enterprise.

To learn more please visit:
Royal Navy education & training Selborne | Careers at Capita

• Enjoy flexible benefits including extra leave purchase, paid volunteering days, enhanced family leave, lifestyle discounts, and access to inclusive employee networks — all designed to support your wellbeing and personal growth.
• Onsite, secure parking
• Catering facilities, Gym and shops onsite
• Rewarding role making a real difference to those joining and progressing within the Royal Navy
• Ability to gain further qualifications and full training given
• This role is offered on a term time basis working 45 weeks per year, with non-working weeks taken 2 weeks at Christmas and Easter and 3 weeks in August.

The salary will therefore be pro rata’d and calculated to include contractual annual leave entitlement and bank holidays.

Location:

Gosport, United Kingdom

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Permanent

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