Training Lead

Job Introduction

Job Description for Training Lead:

There’s never been a more exciting time to be part of the nuclear sector. New opportunities are being created all the time. At NNL, you’ll be in the ideal place to capitalise on this momentum, face new challenges and develop a long, successful and meaningful career.

We’re an organisation that’s here to experiment and push the limits of what’s possible. So, if you’re keen to excel in your chosen field, this is the place to do it. Because at NNL, anything is possible.

As Training Lead you will be supporting the Training Compliance Manager to implement NNL’s Training Policy and Procedure across all the NNL facilities and ensure compliance with regulations and legislation. You will be implementing the Systematic Approach to Training across all facilities and interfacing with Heads of Business to ensure their training needs are met. You will also be liaising with the Regulator and Auditors to demonstrate compliance with legal, regulatory and statutory requirements.

The location for this role is flexible and can be based at Workington, Sellafield or Preston.

Role Responsibility

Main Responsibilities for Training Lead:

• Serves as a role model for safety performance and is demonstrative in setting the priority for safety in the training community.
• Ensures compliance with all legal, regulatory and statutory requirements.
• Serves as the primary interface with Head of Business Area in ensuring training meets their needs.
• Maintains contacts with regulators and exercises a high degree of negotiating/persuasive skills.
• Defines the appropriate training requirements for the organisation, prioritises and ensures compliance with policies and procedures.
• Defines the appropriate and required training needs for the organisation and ensures delivery of these needs.
• Ensures that the training analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation is completed in accordance with procedures.
• Ensures all training staff have adequate support and resources to deliver needs.
• Works with Training teams and Business Area staff to resolve issues, deal with emergent training needs, establish and set priorities
• Delivers and reports on appropriate, meaningful and visible training metrics/KPIs.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential Criteria for Training Lead:

• Experience of:
  • managing people.
  • training techniques and models.
  • dealing with Regulators and Auditors.
  • implementing the Systematic Approach to Training (SAT) using the ADDIE model.
• Personable with good communication skills.
• Ability to obtain SC level security clearance (this includes but is not limited to identity, employment, financial and criminal record checks plus 5 years’ worth of UK residency).

Desirable Criteria for Training Lead:

• Skilled in the application of the Microsoft Office suite.
• Training Qualifications.

About the Company

Grounded in robust science and decades of experience, National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) is the authoritative voice in the UK and beyond for technological development within the nuclear power sector.

Our unparalleled understanding of the science, challenges and opportunities makes us an unrivalled authority and partner in the field, providing experts, technologies, and access to cutting-edge facilities to organisations around the world.

Harnessing potential technologies and translating them into to industry-ready solutions means our pioneering approach spearheads international improvement and technological progress.

We work on projects as small as drilling a hole to analyse underground wastes with our integrated micro drilling technology, or as large as developing state-of-the-art power systems for spacecraft, based on radioactive materials

NNL has a vision for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) where NNL aims to be an inclusive workplace that attracts diverse talent through transparent and equal policies and procedures. We want you and the diverse mix of people that we employ, customers that we service and stakeholders that we influence to feel valued. We encourage a workplace culture where everyone can thrive with a sense of belonging.

Recruitment Agency Notice

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for the provision of recruitment services. Only agencies on our PSL may provide CVs and only when the role is released to them by our recruitment team. We will not accept unsolicited CVs from suppliers not currently on our PSL. We explicitly reserve the right to add candidate details from unsolicited CVs from non-PSL agencies into our own candidate database and to pursue/hire such candidate(s) without any obligation, financial or otherwise, to the agency concerned.

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