Through Life Training Architect

Location: Reading, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. 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.

THALES has an exciting opportunity for a Through Life Training Architect to engage with business and capture leads, building networks and relationships to promote the function, its capabilities, contributing to the functions future strategic direction, providing business driven training design solutions and architecture.

Location: Ideally Reading but can be based from one of our UK sites.

What can we offer you?

• Annual Bonus
• Matched Pension up to 7%
• 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays)
• Life Cover equivalent to 2X times annual salary
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Gym membership discounts

What will you deliver?

• Engage and maintain networks with Business and Domain Leads across the UK.
• Contribute to the functions future strategic direction.
• Promote the functions capabilities, processes and added value of the team to all stakeholders within Thales UK.
• Take responsibility for contributing to team planning, risk management, quality and HSE.
• Carry out the estimating and bid support for new opportunities.
• As a Training Specialist, support, share and contribute to the exercising of best practice in the Team.
• Provide help and direction to less experienced team members.
• Manage and undertake day-to-day (Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) training activities ensuring their delivery on time, to budget and quality.
• Work with customer and end user to highlight front line training issues that affect system availability and capability.
• Provide training decision outputs within own sphere of responsibility and delegated authority.
• Analysis of 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 JSP822 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.
• Set targets for and manage own development with line manager.

Who are we looking for?

• Stakeholder engagement and management.
• 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 solution architecture.
• Management of training solutions.
• Training strategy, analysis, development, design, implementation and evaluation.
• Strong proficiency within standard Microsoft Office packages/Authoring tools.
• Excellent standard of written and spoken English.
• Engineering knowledge/experience.
• Writing of bids, proposals and work package costings.

Desirable

• Technical Authoring.
• Integrated Logistic Support (ILS).

Training Experience:

Essential

• Training systems and solution architecture within an engineering environment.
• Training requirements.
• Engineering Product Lifecycle.
• Utilisation and tailoring of Systemised Approach to Training (DSAT, ADDIE).
• Training Development and Design.
• Production of Learning outcomes.
• Training delivery.

Desirable

• Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS)/Learning Management Systems (LMS).

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance.

For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency - United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process.

Great journeys start here, apply now!