Apprenticeship Coach

Babcock Canada Inc.; Remote; GBP 30,000 - GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global organization is seeking a Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor to coach and guide learners in the British Army. This role involves remote work with travel to various sites across the Southwest of England. Candidates should have significant experience as a qualified assessor and hold relevant educational qualifications such as a Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement. The position offers a competitive environment to impact national defense while developing your career.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health check

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Considerable experience as a qualified assessor.
• Strong background in a relevant industry.
• Good understanding of work-based learning programmes.

Responsibilities

• Coaching and assessing learners in their workplace.
• Motivating apprentices through their qualification journey.
• Tracking learner progress in line with reporting processes.

Skills

Qualified assessor experience

Background in relevant industry

Understanding of work-based learning programmes

Education

Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement

GCSE grade C or above in Maths and English

Vehicle Mechanic Level 3 Qualification

Job description

Job Title

Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor

Location

Lyneham, Swindon, GB, SN15 4PZ; Salisbury, GB, SP4 9LS; Tidworth, Salisbury, GB, SP9 7QD; Warminster, Bath, GB, BA12 0BS

Role Type

Full time / Permanent

The role

As a Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor, you’ll step away from the tools and into a career that shapes the next generation of Army vehicle mechanics. You’ll use your hands‑on expertise to coach, guide and assess learners working across the British Army’s extensive fleet from quad bikes and generators to battle tanks and heavy artillery. This is a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on national defence while advancing your own career in a dynamic and rewarding environment.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be:

• Visiting learners in their workplace to deliver coaching, assessment and support
• Motivating and guiding apprentices through their qualification journey
• Monitoring progress and ensuring timely completion of all programme components
• Advising learners on portfolio building and meeting programme requirements
• Recording and tracking learner progress in line with reporting processes

Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

The role is based remotely, with travel required to sites across the Southwest including but not limited to Tidworth, Lyneham, Warminster, Colerne, Larkhill, Bulford and Wiltshire. The set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week.

Essential experience of the Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor

• Considerable experience as a qualified assessor
• Strong background in a relevant industry environment
• Good understanding of work-based learning programmes

Qualifications for the Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor

• Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement (or equivalent)
• GCSE grade C or above (or equivalent) in Maths and English
• Vehicle Mechanic Level 3 Qualification (minimum Level 3)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC), Enhanced DBS, Child Barring Service and Adult Barring Service 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

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• 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

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please [e-mail] 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.

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