Cryogenics & Gas Maintenance School Instructional Officer (x2 posts)

Defence Electronics & Components Agency

Vacancy Reference Number: 204784

Closing Date: 11:55 pm on Friday 10th June 2022

Salary: £25,826 – £31,569

Grade:  Executive Officer D

Contract type:  Fixed Term – 2 years

Summary

To train military and civilian personnel in the safe use of various equipment, chemicals and regulations to enable them to complete their specific role.

Job description

Adapting the course as required to suit an individual’s learning style and needs.
An awareness of the environment and all of the inherent dangers associated with Liquid Oxygen to ensure the safety of unqualified students.
The ability to understand complex technical drawings and information extracted from the relevant Air Publications and Defence Standards.

Responsibilities

1. Train military and civilian personnel to required standards.
2. Supervise DECA apprentices in a workshop environment obtaining training material and equipment to further their development.
3. Deliver courses to DECA personnel ensuring that mandatory qualifications remain current.
4. Be a technical point of contact for Project Teams and military personnel helping to resolve issues regarding the equipment used in Cryogenics.
5. Production and maintenance of training media.
6. Continual internal review of syllabus.
7. Preparation of materials and equipment ready for course delivery.
8. Management of student welfare.
9. Maintaining standards and discipline of students.
10. Planning and co-ordinating training resources for course delivery and ensuring that equipment is serviceable.
11. Controlling and implementing methods of student assessment.
12. Control and maintenance of student records.
13. Issue course certificates as required, write course reports for the students first reporting officer and ensure that the appropriate qualification is entered on the students training record.
14. Ensure that the following years courses are planned in good time so that they can be disseminated.
15. Ensure that other instructors are available as required to supplement and assist in the delivery of CGMS courses.
16. Implementation of all DECA policies and procedures.
17. Act as building custodian on behalf of the customer services manager (secondary duty)
18. Ensure course documentation is completed in a timely manner and forwarded to the student’s Line Manager.
19. Liaise with Apprentices College to ensure they are up to date with NVQ’s & other college work.
20. Act as a point of contact for course development project.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week plus required OT to cover the courses
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension
• 26.5 days holiday per annum rising to 31.5 days after 5 years service excluding Bank Holidays
• Cycle to Work Scheme

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

See our vetting charter.

People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Ability, Experience and Technical skills.

Application

At application you will be assessed against the following:
• Technical
• Experience
• Strengths
• Ability

Behaviours:

• Leadership
• Changing and Improving
• Developing Self and Others

Application sifting is scheduled to take place on 13th June 2022.

Please ensure that at the application and interview stages of the campaign you review the Success Profiles Framework to assist you in the demonstration of your skills and experience.
Your suitability for the role will be assessed using the Success Profile elements that have been selected. Each element will be scored accordingly, and the successful candidate will be appointed on merit.

Interview Process details:
If successful, you will be invited to interview; the interview will last 1 hour

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Technical skills:

We’ll also assess you against these technical skills during the interview stage of the process:
Knowledge of safe use and maintenance of nitrogen and Liquid oxygen vessels

Interviews are planned for 29th June 2022. A minimum of 5 full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews. We endeavour to stick to these dates, but these are subject to change around business needs.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
  • certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name :Kent Peters
  • Email :Kent.Peters@deca.mod.uk

Recruitment team :

  • Email :John.Evans@deca.mod.uk

 

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Attachments

77. CGMS Instructional Officer Opens in new window(pdf, 55kB)
Candidate information pack CGMS – May 2022 Opens in new window(pdf, 342kB)
Success_Profiles_Behaviours Opens in new window(pdf, 1043kB)
Success-Profiles-Candidate-Overview Opens in new window(pdf, 635kB)

Skills and Experiences

Knowledge of the safe operation of Cryogenic Equipment in challenging environments.
• Experience of PowerPoint enabling the development of new and current courses as required.
• An instructional qualification is required to train military personnel ensuring that the correct learning environment is achieved.
• An awareness of the environment and all of the inherent dangers associated with Liquid Oxygen to ensure the safety of unqualified students.
• The ability to understand complex technical drawings and information extracted from the relevant Air Publications and Defence Standards.
• Knowledge of the Ground support equipment is required.
• Knowledge of individual learning styles.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Leadership
  • Changing and Improving
  • Developing Self and Others

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • Knowledge of safe use and maintenance of nitrogen and Liquid oxygen vessels
Contact: Kent.Peters@deca.mod.uk