Apprentice Early Careers Manager

Apprentice Early Careers Manager

SF33902

Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth

Starting Salary: £45,000 to £55,000

About the role

We're looking for an Apprentice Early Careers Manger (ECM) to join us at HMNB Devonport, one of the largest naval bases in Western Europe. We're a key strategic partner to our customers; the MOD and the Royal Navy. We ensure that the UK Royal Navy goes to sea safely by supporting them in Devonport and around the world, delivering complex ship and submarine sustainment programmes and applying our core strengths of technology and expertise to sustain critical and complex assets to help maintain national security.

The purpose of the Apprentice Early Careers Manager (ECM) is to ensure the apprentice development programmes for our engineering apprentices meet the standards and outputs required by the company.

You will be responsible for the leadership of the engineering apprenticeship programme across the Devonport site by ensuring apprentices perform at the relevant standard required to achieve their apprenticeship.

As the Apprentice Early Careers Manager you will lead the apprentice Early Careers Team and work with the Head of Early Careers to ensure the early careers strategy is effectively delivered across the Devonport site, supporting the needs of the early careers cohorts and delivering against key early careers objectives.

What do I need to do the role?

You will have extensive managerial experience gained from working in a Learning and Development/Early Careers environment and have expert knowledge of apprenticeships and levy procedures.

We would also like you to have experience in the following areas:

• Experience of working within a changing environment thus adaptable to change and is able to lead change.
• Strong partnership skills both internally and externally
• Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills
• Able to communicate and network with all levels of internal and external customers.
• Methodical and organised and ability to use own initiative
• Customer focussed

Lastly you will oversee 400 apprentices based in Devonport.

What else do I need to know?

• The successful candidate will need to satisfy Ministry of Defence security requirements. This may require you to hold or be eligible/capable of achieving 'Security Check' (SC) clearance.
• We are happy to talk about flexible working. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

About Babcock International and Devonport

For more than a century, Babcock, the Aerospace and Defence Company, has been trusted to deliver bespoke, highly-skilled engineering services. We help customers in the UK and around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets within the four market sectors of Marine, Land, Aviation, and Nuclear, underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration, unique infrastructure and specialist training.

You will be based at Devonport Royal Dockyard in Plymouth, Devon. Working at Devonport puts the best of the South West at your fingertips. Amazing scenery, vibrant towns and numerous leisure opportunities - It's why Devon and Cornwall are such a desirable place to live and work.

Comprising of 14 dry docks, four miles of waterfront and 25 tidal berths, Devonport is the base for numerous surface vessels as well as the base and refit centre for the Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered submarines. Devonport has also recently been selected as the base port for the Navy's new Type 26 frigates and will become the maintenance centre for the future submarine programme.

Application Guidance

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to ensure that our recruitment processes are regularly reviewed and adapted, as required, to ensure we're compliant with the latest government advice. We are striving to protect both our current and future employees by acting in a responsible way which reflects the restrictions we face.

Please follow the link to find out more about how COVID-19 is impacting Recruitment and On-boarding for applicants.

Babcock are continuing with essential recruitment activity but implementing relevant recommendations to ensure that this is done in a responsible way with consideration of the unprecedented circumstances we are facing.

It is unlikely that shortlisted candidates will be asked to attend a face-to-face interview in the first instance. Interviews will be held by phone, or you may be asked to complete an online interview. More information will be provided regarding the format by the recruitment team.

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This advice is valid at the time of publication and changing government advice and Babcock working practices take precedence at any particular time.

Armed Forces Covenant

We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant. We recognise the value that Serving Personnel, both Regular and Reserves, Veterans, Uniformed Cadet Instructors and Service Families contribute to our business and the United Kingdom. As part of the Covenant, Babcock offers Reservists and Uniformed Cadet Instructors up to 2 week's special paid leave to help them meet their commitments. To find out more please visit our website.

Closing date: 7th March 2021