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Job Title: Breathing Apparatus Trainer

Location: Park Royal, London

Compensation: £43,255.48 - £44,941.31 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF71696

Ignite Your Potential. Shape the Future of Firefighter Training.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Breathing Apparatus Trainer at Beckton or Park Royal, near London

The role

As a Breathing Apparatus Trainer, you’ll play a vital role in delivering hands‑on, safety‑critical training that directly supports the operational readiness of London’s frontline fire crews. This is your opportunity to make a real impact — helping learners develop essential skills, supporting their confidence, and contributing to safer communities.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
Delivering core firefighter skills training, including Breathing Apparatus and Level 3 apprenticeship modules.
Assessing learner performance and providing constructive feedback to support progression.
Creating a safe, inclusive, and professional learning environment following Fit to Train, safety and welfare policies.
Managing learner welfare issues and escalating concerns via established safeguarding procedures.
Ensuring training resources and equipment are suitable and raising any issues with senior colleagues.

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 based at Park Royal, near London. You will be working Monday to Friday, with occasional weekends.

Essential experience of the Breathing Apparatus Trainer:
Training or assessing qualification at Level 3 or above (can be obtained through Babcock).
Experience teaching, coaching, assessing or presenting to groups of adults (desirable).
Fire‑related background or operational experience (advantageous).
A passion for training, with an adaptable and engaging approach.

Qualifications for the Breathing Apparatus 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 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: 22/07/2026

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