Senior Training Specialist

Senior Training Specialist

ScottishPower, Hoylake, Wirral. CH47 4AX

Salary between £54,800 to £68,500 (depending on experience) with up to 15% bonus and Single Healthcare

Closing Date: 6th January 2025

Purpose

As Senior Training Specialist, when you join a world leader in wind energy, you have the chance to make a real impact, delivering a range of technical training across all ScottishPower business areas which ensure training activities are carried out to a high level, in terms of both quality and safety, whilst ensuring low cost and best value for the business.

Day to day, you’ll lead the delivery of craft skills and authorisation training, particularly within SP Energy Networks. Your skills will help deliver craft training, developing new members of staff as well as up-skill existing staff, delivering technical training requirements for external customers and ScottishPower contractors to external and industry recognised standards. We’ll expect you to have skills, knowledge and expertise gained in a technical training role with an understanding of the various assessment criteria and procedures within the awarding body standards.

Importantly you’ll hold practical knowledge, be experienced as a trainer and as a Senior Authorised Person to fully understand technical training needs analysis, how to develop training plans and conduct training delivery and evaluations, ensuring we are delivering post training courses within our remit and meet learner needs.

Responsibilities

Providing comprehensive support in relation to all technical training needs analysis, development of training plans, training delivery and evaluation for internal and external customers, you will be required to consultant and support the business regarding business specific products and training to deploy across the full spectrum of engineering skills.

Supporting the design, development and delivery of operational safety programmes to meet the stringent requirement of each individual, you will continually monitor and review all training delivery methods to ensure quality and compliance with standards, ensuring training objectives are achieved.

Promoting and supporting a learning environment, you will ensure the effective utilisation of the varied training/learning solutions available such as traditional classroom, e-learning, project work and distance learning.

What you’ll bring

With demonstrable experience as a Senior Authorised Person, you will possess knowledge, understanding and ability to deliver multiple Electrical/Mechanical technical courses to a wide range of staff required to work safely within the electricity supply industry.

Displaying knowledge and practical skill to deliver training whilst assessing technical members of staff to ScottishPower company standards, you will need to hold a full driving licence there is a requirement to travel to additional ScottishPower sites to deliver training.

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com.