Training & Delivery Consultant

Job Title: Training & Delivery Consultant

Location: Edinburgh, UK (4days/week)

Duration: 3Months+

450GBP/day Outside IR35

Overview
We are seeking a Training & Delivery Consultant to support the successful adoption of operational improvements within a large-scale Defence and Maritime programme. This role is highly operational and requires a hands-on individual who is comfortable working closely with frontline teams, observing day-to-day activities, and driving behavioural change across the workforce.

Key Responsibilities

• Spend significant time within operational and shop-floor environments to understand current processes, behaviours, and challenges.
• Identify gaps between existing ways of working and the desired future-state operating model.
• Build strong working relationships with frontline employees and junior stakeholders to encourage engagement and adoption of new practices.
• Deliver coaching, training, and support to operational teams to facilitate change initiatives.
• Gather structured observations and insights from the field and provide clear feedback to programme leadership.
• Act as a key link between operational teams and the wider programme, ensuring solutions remain practical and aligned with real-world requirements.
• Support change management and readiness activities to drive successful implementation of programme objectives.
• Conduct one-to-one and small group sessions to reinforce new ways of working and address concerns.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience delivering training, coaching, or operational support within a shop-floor, manufacturing, engineering, defence, or operational environment.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with the ability to quickly establish credibility.
• Excellent observation, analytical, and note-taking skills.
• Ability to convert operational observations into concise and actionable reports.
• Experience supporting organisational change, transformation, or continuous improvement initiatives.
• Self-motivated and comfortable working independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills.

Security Clearance

• Active SC Clearance preferred.
• Candidates with BPSS clearance and an SC application in progress will also be considered.

Working Arrangement

• 4 days per week onsite in Edinburgh.
• Work from home on Fridays.
• Immediate start preferred.
• Contract until the end of August.