Operations Instructor

The role

As an Operations Instructor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll deliver Ship Control training, provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) input into the analysis and solution development for technical change to the existing product and to provide SME advice in support to Marine Training’s projects. 

Day to day, you’ll provide training to students with a wide range of experience, predominantly within Ship Control Training discipline but also to provide assistance with generic training, liaise with the Training Design team and provide support for the routine review and amendment of SCT and operations courseware, and conduct all administration and reporting activities associated with the delivery of training to contractual requirement and as otherwise directed by the management team.

• Accountable to the Operations Manager: provide training to students with a wide range of experience, predominantly within SCT discipline but also to provide assistance with generic training, for example Astute Class Familiarisation. All training is to be delivered to prescribed standards and within contractual requirements

• Provide training to students with a wide range of experience, external to the ACTS contract. Training is to be delivered to prescribed standards, quality and cost

• Courseware maintenance: liaise with the Training Design (TD) team and provide SME support for the routine review and amendment of SCT ,OPS or SMQ or courseware

• Provide Subject Matter Expert support to the review and evaluation of technical data/notifications of change, identifying the impact of change on existing courseware. Liaison with the TD team to implement required change

This is a full time role based on site at Faslane. 

Essential experience of the Operations Instructor (Ship Controller Officer of the Watch):

• Comprehensive knowledge and recent experience of operating Submarine Ship Control systems.

• Experience of Submarine Control Room management

Desirable experience 

• Previous experience of training delivery

• Recent sea experience on Astute class submarines

• DTc/ DTTT qualification

Qualifications for the Operations Instructor (Ship Controller Officer of the Watch):

• Qualification as an Operations Warrant Officer/Senior Rating with relevant experience, in the Royal Navy Submarine Service

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance 

• Competitive pension scheme with life assurance

• 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement

• ‘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

The Company

For over a century Our Client has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, they must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.