Staff role with a leading North Sea operator.
Aberdeen based.
Reporting to the Senior Competence Advisor, the Technical Training Specialist is responsible for defining training expectations, ensuring best in class technical training provision, managing the delivery of TMS services, and supporting the development of technical training solutions for the organisation in line with Asset Safety Cases, Regulatory requirements, and Industry Best Practice. This role will also be a key focal point for contractor companies.
Responsibilities
- Recognised as the company focal point for all Technical Training requirements.
- Partner with relevant Technical Authorities and Subject Matter Experts to ensure that new or updated training expectations are defined, designed, and implemented effectively across relevant assets and departments.
- Manage the Training Matrices for mandatory and nominated technical training expectations, including Management of Change of technical training expectations.
- Lead the scoping and development of new technical training courses.
- Responsible for keeping abreast of changes to regulatory requirements and industry best practice and ensuring that these are effectively addressed and cascaded throughout the organisation.
- Facilitate an Active Gap Management process.
- Operational ownership of the Training Management System (TMS) software.
- Actively monitor and report to Senior Leadership on overall training compliance, gap management and contractor compliance performance.
- Execution of regulatory inspections.
- Management of Contractor Competence.
- Competence Assessor or Internal Verifier for Supervisory Management and L&D awards.
Qualifications & Experience
- Degree-qualified, advanced technical diploma, or equivalent.
- L&D9Di, A1 or D32/33 qualified (or working towards).
- ISO9001:2015 Lead Auditor qualified.
- Experience of working within the energy, petrochemical or pharmaceutical industries.
- Experienced in leading or supervising the delivery of training expectations.
- Experienced in the development of technical training solutions, from scoping through to implementation.
- Experience of working with the Oil and Gas Regulator.