Training Specialist

Training Specialist –
Thales

Location: Templecombe, United Kingdom

Thales is a global leader in aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, designing innovative solutions that make tomorrow possible. We offer fantastic opportunities for employees to learn and develop their career. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. We support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

As a Training Specialist you will work within the Through life Support Engineer (TSE) team, undertaking training analysis, design, delivery and evaluation to customer requirements within defence and commercial environments. You will lead and direct the wider Technical Publications and Training team, providing business‑driven design and management of training solutions. You will manage challenging deadlines and team priorities across work streams.

• Undertake and take ownership of day‑to‑day training activities ensuring delivery on time, to budget and quality.
• Support, share and contribute to the exercising of best practice within the team. Through the merit of your own actions and performance, consistently demonstrate the value of Learning and Development to our customers.
• Work with customers and end users to highlight front line training issues that affect system availability and capability.
• Recommend changes to training affected processes and procedures and follow through with required updates.
• Provide TNA decision outputs within own sphere of responsibility and delegated authority to both internal and external customers on behalf of Thales.
• Analyse trending training data to manage training design changes required to improve learning outcomes for the end users.
• Analyse, design and deliver training to UK MOD JSP
  822 / S6000T standards to ensure the company training outputs remain compliant.
• Compile data to a variety of national / international / civil / military specifications, and produce physical/electronic deliverables.
• Provide help and direction to less experienced team members.
• Take responsibility for contributing to team planning, risk management, quality and HSE.
• Set targets for and manage own development with line manager.
• Seek and share good practice and knowledge to continuously improve own practices.

• Training Analysis, Design, Development, Delivery and Evaluation
• Strong proficiency within standard Microsoft office packages/authoring tools
• Excellent standard of written and spoken English
• Writing of bids, proposals and work package costings
• Stakeholder Management
• Engineering knowledge/experience
• Ability to influence and negotiate at all levels of the organisation
• Proven track record in consulting across a range of technical disciplines
• Organisation and problem solving skills
• Able to build credibility quickly and effectively
• Training systems and architecture within an engineering product lifecycle
• Utilisation and tailoring of systemised approaches to training (JSP
  822, S6000T, ADDIE)
• Courseware Design
• Training Delivery
• Production of learning outcomes

• Degree
• BTEC/C&G in Learning and Development
• Minimum:
  Preparing to Teach in The Life Long Learning Sector (PTTLS) or equivalent

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market‑leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Your health and well‑being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not…