Training Analyst and Design Manager

Location

Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL2 2BG

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Onsite or Hybrid

Job Title: Training Analyst and Design Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Starting salary from £44,600 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73797

Build the skills that power the future of defence engineering

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Training Analyst and Design Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Training Analyst and Design Manager, you’ll play a critical role in developing the workforce capabilities that underpin complex submarine and warship maintenance programmes. Leading training analysis and design activities within a major capability enhancement programme, you’ll ensure that people have the right skills, knowledge and competence to deliver essential defence operations safely and effectively.

Day-to-day, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to shape how training is designed and delivered across a highly technical environment. You’ll work at the intersection of engineering, education and operational delivery—driving improvements in performance, supporting continuous learning, and influencing how capability evolves across the business.

Leading training analysis and design activities to identify and meet workforce capability needs

Managing and developing a team of analysts and learning design specialists

Collaborating with subject matter experts to create effective, high-quality training solutions

Designing structured training approaches aligned to operational and regulatory requirements

Driving continuous improvement across training processes, systems and learning interventions

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Training Analyst and Design Manager

Strong analytical capability with experience interpreting training or workforce requirements

Proven ability to deliver projects to time, cost and quality targets

Experience working collaboratively with stakeholders and subject matter experts

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

A proactive, commercially aware approach with a focus on continuous improvement

Qualifications for the Training Analyst and Design Manager

Degree-level qualification in training analysis, technical discipline, or equivalent experience

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 (

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 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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 View email address on uk.workus.org 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: 08/07/2026

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