Job title:

Training Support Officer (Maintainer)

Job Description:

What you’ll be doing:

• Acting as Safety Officer for practical firefighting training, to ensure safety standards are maintained and to provide feedback to trainees and instructional staff. 
• Monitoring safety systems and controlling the fire compartment settings and parameters. 
• Ensuring all training equipment, training areas and classrooms are correctly prepared prior to use. 
• Work with the instructional team on maintaining and improving the standards of delivery.  
• Provide First Aid response. 
• Provide routine mechanical and electrical maintenance
• Maintain planned maintenance documentation, test, and calibration records.

What we’re looking for:

• Electrical qualification – 18th Edition
• Royal Navy Firefighting experience would be ideal or Experience within the Maritime Sector, either military or commercial
• Mechanical Maintenance experience
• Due to the nature of the role candidates must be fit and healthy in order to be able to wear breathing apparatus
• A flexible ‘can do’ approach to work 
• Good communication skills both verbal and written  
• Team player 
• Previous experience of planned maintenance systems.
• Experience and commitment to compliance with workplace Health and Safety regulations   
• First Aid at Work qualified, or equivalent is desirable

About Project Selborne

Project Selborne is a wide scale, 12 year transformation of Royal Navy Training.  The contract worth GBP 1 billion was awarded in December 2020 to a consortium led by Capita to deliver and modernise training for the RN.  The consortia of partners known as Team Fisher includes Raytheon UK, Elbit Systems UK, Fujitsu and University of Lincoln together with 14 other UK-based suppliers.

Our ‘one team’ philosophy is about collaboration and openness, key to the success of this programme.  We are looking for people with the talent and experience who can help shape better outcomes for our customers. We are using our expertise in digital transformation to review service design, modernise courses and deploy cutting edge technology to enhance courses including synthetic training (simulator) systems and data analytics. This programme is a shared endeavour working alongside the Royal Navy’s Training Management Group (TMG) as a single integrated team. Together, we will address challenges and collectively improve outcomes for sailors and marines at scale across the naval enterprise – something we are proud to be part of over the coming years.

What’s in it for you?

• Salary of £30,000
• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
• Full training will be given
• Free parking on site or easily accessible via public transport. 

What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

Please contact seona.treadaway@capita.com or lisa.scott2@capita.com for further information

To view our Covid-19 and process adjustments information, please visit the Capita Careers site.

Equal Opportunities

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. During the application process, you’ll be asked to share your personal characteristics and data with us. This helps us understand our audience so we can make sure we are doing everything we can to attract a diverse range of people and ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inclusive.