Join an established Energy business operating within a highly regulated environment, as Training & Competence Business Partner. This brand-new, Aberdeen-based role will provide governance, assurance, and continuous improvement across local and international T&C management activities, playing a key part in ensuring workforce capability, regulatory compliance, and audit readiness across operational teams.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Training Governance & Assurance
- Supporting Training Advisors in developing and maintaining Training Matrices aligned to contractual, regulatory, and organisational requirements.
- Contributing to Training Needs Analysis activities, identifying capability gaps and supporting delivery of required assessments.
- Ensuring the Training & Competence system remains compliant with applicable legislation, regulatory frameworks, and external audit standards.
- Driving continuous improvement of training materials, assessment tools, and learning resources based on lessons learned, audit outcomes, and regulatory change.
- Maintaining oversight of training records to support internal assurance, client audits, and regulatory inspections.
- Providing governance for training documentation and data, ensuring accuracy, traceability, and strong document control.
- Preparing and presenting training KPIs, dashboards, and performance reports for leadership teams.
- Coordinating internal and external training provision, ensuring suitability, quality, and value for money.
- Supporting budget planning and promoting cost‑effective delivery of training activities.
Competence Management
- Leading the development and ongoing improvement of the Competence Management System, ensuring compliance with contractual, regulatory, and industry best‑practice expectations.
- Ensuring competence standards are clearly defined, current, and aligned to operational risk, including safety‑critical, emergency response, technical, and operational roles.
- Maintaining oversight of competence assessment schedules, ensuring timely completion of initial, refresher, and re‑verification activities.
- Training, coaching, and supporting Assessors to ensure consistent, high‑quality assessment delivery and standardisation across the organisation.
- Conducting sampling, reviews, and audits of competence assessments, identifying gaps and driving corrective actions where required.
- Ensuring competence evidence and records are accurate, complete, and audit‑ready within the learning/competence management system.
- Promoting shared ownership of competence requirements and support alignment between training, operations, and leadership teams.
- Monitoring industry standards and emerging best practice, embedding improvements where appropriate.
Ideal Candidates:
- Strong experience in T&C management within a regulated or safety‑critical environment.
- Working knowledge of regulatory frameworks, audit processes, and competence assurance.
- Confidence engaging with (and managing) Assessors, operational teams, and senior stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, reporting, and governance skills.
- Proactive, improvement‑focused approach with high attention to detail.
What’s on Offer?
- The opportunity to influence and improve training and competence at an organisational level.
- Exposure to complex operational and regulatory environments.
- A role with genuine impact on safety, quality, and workforce capability.
Additional Information:
- Fully office-based, with flexible start/finish times.
- Excellent facilities with onsite (off-street) parking.
- Occasional offshore travel, and ad-hoc trips to international offices (particularly US and Australia).
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