Fire Fighter Trainer

Job Title:                     Fire Fighter Trainer

Location:                     Plaistow, Park Royal or Harrow, London

Compensation:           £44,941.31 - £46,199.67 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF75603

Help shape the next generation of firefighters

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Fire Fighter Trainer at one of our London Fire Brigade training locations in Plaistow, Park Royal or Harrow.

The role

As a Fire Fighter Trainer, you'll play a vital role in developing competent, confident and operationally ready firefighters. This is a rewarding opportunity to combine your operational or training experience with a passion for developing people, helping to ensure the successful delivery of one of the UK's most important emergency services training contracts. Every day, you'll make a direct contribution to learner success, public safety and operational excellence.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Deliver engaging firefighter development training to groups of learners in classroom and practical environments.


• Assess learner performance, record results accurately and provide constructive feedback to support development.


• Maintain a safe, inclusive and professional learning environment in line with health, safety and safeguarding requirements.


• Support learner wellbeing, identifying welfare concerns and escalating when appropriate.


• Contribute subject matter expertise to training improvement activities and programme development.

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.

This is a full-time, onsite role working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with occasional weekend working as required.

Essential experience of the Fire Fighter Trainer:

• Fire-related background or operational experience would be advantageous.


• Passion for training and developing others.


• Ability to deliver engaging learning experiences to adult learners.


• Experience teaching, coaching, assessing or presenting to groups would be beneficial.


• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Qualifications for the Fire Fighter Trainer:

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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 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 [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: 31/08/2026

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