Training & Competence Business Partner - VR/31930

Status: Permanent
Location: Aberdeen, AB11
Rate: Negotiable

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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