Respiratory Protective Equipment Trainer

Plymouth, England, United Kingdom

5/17/2025

Job Title: Respiratory Protective Equipment Trainer

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £40,098 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF64044

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Respiratory Protective Equipment Trainer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Respiratory Protective Equipment Trainer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join us as a Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE), where you'll deliver training, conduct face fit testing, and provide expert RPE support. Play a vital role in maintaining legal compliance, reinforcing safe work practices, and safeguarding the health and well-being of our workforce.

Day-to-day, you’ll join a dedicated team delivering and facilitating RPE and Powered Air-Purifying Respirators (PAPR) training courses. You'll provide face fit testing, PAPR unit training, and other RPE-related instruction to a diverse range of learners, ensuring compliance and best practices in respiratory protection.

• Deliver high-quality RPE/PAPR training to employees, ensuring professional standards.
• Maintain and update training course content as an SME to align with regulations and assessment criteria.
• Manage administrative tasks, reporting, and compliance related to training delivery.
• Uphold training standards in line with legislation and manufacturer guidelines.
• Support quality management systems with structured objectives, lesson plans, and secure training content.
  
  
  

This role is full time 35, hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential Experience Of The Respiratory Protective Equipment Trainer

• Experience in the practical application of RPE and testing in an industrial environment, including associated COSHH requirements.
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Respiratory Protective Equipment Trainer

• Demonstrable working knowledge of INDG479 and HSG53.
• NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent.
• Level 3 Award in Adult Education & Training, or equivalent.
• Fit2Fit Accreditation – Desirable.
  
  
  

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintainBaseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
  
  
  

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 30/05/2025

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