Training and Requirements Lead

Training and Requirements Lead
Salary: £55,000 – £65,000 dependent on experience
Location: Bristol / Hybrid
Working arrangement: Hybrid, with travel to other sites as required
Security Clearance: Must be eligible to obtain SC clearance and willing to undergo DV vetting
The Opportunity
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Training and Requirements Lead to support the development and delivery of innovative training solutions within the defence and wider regulated sectors.
Working alongside experienced training and systems engineering professionals, you will help translate customer needs into clearly defined requirements and deliverable training solutions. The role offers exposure to the full training lifecycle, from initial customer engagement and training analysis through to solution acceptance, evaluation and through-life support.
This position would suit someone with experience in technical or operational training who is looking to develop their expertise in training requirements, systems approaches to training and simulation-based solutions.
Key Responsibilities

• Support customer discovery activities, workshops and the capture of user needs and training requirements.
• Contribute to Training Needs Analysis (TNA), including role analysis, training gap assessments and evaluation of training methods and media.
• Apply relevant defence training methodologies, including DSAT and JSP 822, or equivalent approaches.
• Draft user, system and service requirements, acceptance plans and supporting project documentation.
• Maintain requirements traceability between training needs, learning outcomes, solution requirements and acceptance evidence.
• Support verification, validation and acceptance activities, ensuring appropriate evidence is captured and documented.
• Contribute to the analysis, design, evaluation and assurance of simulation-based, virtual, immersive and conventional training solutions.
• Work collaboratively with customers, project managers, systems engineers and delivery teams.
• Support consultancy assignments, bid preparation, research and development activities and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Identify and escalate technical, training design and acceptance risks as appropriate.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experience contributing to the analysis, design or delivery of technical or operational training within defence or a comparable regulated environment.
• Working knowledge of DSAT and JSP 822, or an equivalent systems approach to training.
• Experience writing requirements or supporting acceptance activities, with an understanding of requirements traceability.
• Understanding of simulation, virtual and conventional training solutions.
• Experience working with customers and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to contribute to customer workshops.
• An organised and analytical approach, with the ability to manage assigned tasks and contribute to project delivery.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Formal training in DSAT, Defence Train the Trainer or an introduction to defence simulation.
• A degree in a STEM-related or relevant discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience using requirements management tools such as IBM DOORS or ReqView.
• Experience with synthetic training environments, simulation technologies or extended reality (XR).
• Experience supporting bids for training solutions and consultancy services.
• Relevant professional qualifications or membership, such as APM, INCOSE, CIPD or LPI.

What's on Offer?

• Salary of £55,000 – £65,000, dependent on experience.
• Hybrid working with flexibility.
• 25 days' annual leave, plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday.
• Option to purchase up to five additional days of annual leave after one year.
• Family medical and dental cover.
• 7% pension contribution through NEST.
• Cycle to Work and electric vehicle schemes.
• Five additional paid reservist volunteering days and two paid volunteering days.
• Employee assistance programme and wellbeing initiatives.
• A supportive working environment with opportunities for professional development and career progression.
• The opportunity to help shape processes and practices within a growing technology-focused organisation.

Apply Now
If you have experience in technical training, training analysis or requirements management and are looking to develop your career in defence training and simulation, we would welcome your application.
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.