Job Description

Job Title: Apprenticeship and Skills Development Supervisor

Location: Wareham, Dorset

Compensation: £39,910 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74582

Shape the next generation of talent and make a lasting impact on skills development.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Apprenticeship and Skills Development Supervisor at Bovington, near Wareham, Dorset.

The role

As an Apprenticeship and Skills Development Supervisor, you'll play a key role in developing future talent and strengthening workforce capability across our Land sector. This is an exciting opportunity to lead apprenticeship and skills development programmes that directly support operational excellence and long-term business success.

Day-to-day you'll be required to:

• Lead the delivery and continuous improvement of apprenticeship and staff development programmes.
• Support apprentices throughout their learning journey through coaching, mentoring, and performance monitoring.
• Coordinate structured learning plans with training providers and internal stakeholders.
• Identify skills gaps and implementing development initiatives to support workforce capability.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, quality, and apprenticeship standards while driving continuous improvement.

The role is based onsite at Bovington, and the set working times are Monday to Thursday, 08:00 to 16:30 and Friday, 08:00 to 13:00, totalling 37 hours per week. Travel to our site at Lulworth will also be expected.

Essential Experience of the Apprenticeship and Skills Development Supervisor:

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective relationships at all levels.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven planning, organisational, and time management abilities.
• Experience supporting learning, development, training, or apprenticeship programmes.
• Ability to coach, mentor, and motivate individuals to achieve their goals.

Qualifications for the Apprenticeship and Skills Development Supervisor:

• Educated to Level 2 in the National Qualifications Framework (for example GCSE Grade 4/C or above, NVQ Level 1, or equivalent qualification).

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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 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 email careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 07/07/2026