Academy Trainer - ENG

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 83,000 employees on five continents. With over 7,500 people in the UK, operating across defence, space, aerospace, and digital security, we help build a future we can all trust. Thales supports the security and stability of our nation by providing extraordinary technology to our customers, as well as delivering social value to the UK with our products and services.

Academy Trainer – Engineering Secondment

Location: Belfast

Are you looking for a role that will help develop the next generation of engineers? Do you want to support the business in upskilling our engineers to support growth? Looking for a training and development opportunity? Apply now!

What the role has to offer:

• Chance to help strategically shape our training for all engineering functions in IAS!
• Opportunity to deliver engineering focused training and development from beginner to master aligned to the Academy learning model.
• Mentor and develop our next generation of engineers to improve their speed to competency as they commence their career journey with Thales!

Primary purpose of the role:

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Academy Engineer Trainer, to join the IAS UK Academy on a two year secondment. The primary purpose of the role is to develop, design and deliver training to upskill engineers across IAS, prioritising the biggest skill gaps and fundamental training to improve our engineers speed to competency within their roles.

The successful candidate will lead the training and development pathways for engineering, linking to learning models such as 70 20 10 and contribute to the IAS Strategic Capability Plans  without day-to-day guidance or supervision, in a professional manner and in accordance with the UK-SPEC, standards and Thales (Chorus II) and internal documentation processes.

This role will be pivotal to the success of developing SQEP in a timely manner and closing critical skill gaps within engineering, increasing competency across the IAS engineering job functions. 

Principal Relationships:

The jobholder will report to the Academy Manager. The jobholder is required to develop and engage IAS Engineering communities, and build key relationships to obtain ‘buy-in’ and cooperation in order to achieve objectives and fulfil responsibilities. Interfaces and communication shall be with all stakeholders and include, but are not limited to:

Internal Relationships

• Academy Management Team
• Heads of Function across all Engineering disciplines
• Head of Technical Publications and Product Training
• Programme Managers
• Engineering Functions
• Technical Directorate
• SCP lead
• UK TLC team
• Engineering Function Academy Managers

External Relationships

• Ulster University
• SERC
• Authorities for assessment, approval and similar
• QUB Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre (AMIC)

Day to day you will:

• Create, maintain and manage Learning Management System (LMS) content.
• Lead and deliver the training and development activities for the engineering functions and identify training pathways that support the skills development required by the HoF.
• Develop training programme to improve the speed to competency for new engineers to  support the business’ needs.
• Consistently demonstrate the value of a range of Learning and Development techniques.
• Work with end user to articulate the training programme deliverables.
• Drive continuous improvement, recommending changes to training affected by processes and procedures and follow through with required updates.
• Provide training decision outputs within own sphere of responsibility and delegated authority.
• Analysis of trending training data to manage learning and recommend changes required to improve learning outcomes for the end users.
• Analyse, design and deliver training to UK MOD JSP822 standards to ensure the Company training outputs remain compliant.
• Set targets for and manage own development with line manager. Seek and share good practice and knowledge to continuously improve own practices
• Align with UK Engineering competency model, contribute to Engineering learning pathways for function and domain working closely with the UK learning and support team. 
• Analysis of the Skills Dashboard to identify risks in relation to upskilling and skills retention.
• Participate in ongoing Academy activities such as onboarding, induction and training.

Skills and Experience:

• Training analysis, development, design, implementation and evaluation of learning content
• Excellent standard of written and spoken English
• Engineering job functions and product knowledge/experience
• Articulate and able to communicate at all levels of the organisation
• Organisation and problem solving skills
• Comprehensive knowledge of our systems and processes including Chorus 2.0 DDQS
• Stakeholder Management
• Demonstrable success in provisioning and delivering training programmes including planning and preparing learning programmes for groups and individuals
• Assessing the outcomes of learning and learners achievement
• Strong proficiency within standard Microsoft office packages/Authoring tools

What We Can Offer

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.

Flexibility

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.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Great journeys start here, apply now!

At Thales, we ensure equal opportunities, pay and working conditions for all. The benefits we offer include private medical insurance, buying or selling annual leave, cycle to work schemes, employee discounts, paid volunteering day, stocks and shares, annual bonus and much more depending on the role. Read more about our benefits here.

We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued for who they are and the unique strengths they bring. Discover more about our programmes, employee networks, wellbeing policies, and inclusive features here.

If this role isn’t quite right for you, we encourage you to join our talent community where your details will be shared with our recruitment teams for other potential opportunities. Join the Talent Community here.

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