Head of Technical Training

Location: Dealain House, Cumbernauld (with UK-wide travel to ScottishPower sites and external partners)
Contract: Permanent, Full-time
Salary: range from £80,000 - £120,000 + performance based bonus up to 30%, car allowance and private medical insurance for self and family

Lead the future of technical training at the heart of Scotland's energy transition

Our Training Centres are the beating heart of ScottishPower's technical capability, serving as nationally significant hubs for the development and assurance of technical skills and health & safety compliance across nationally critical energy infrastructure. As our dedicated training centres, Dealain House in Cumbernauld and Hoylake House on The Wirral, deliver everything from craft skills development to complex authorisations across our operational workforce. Technical Training sets the standard for our current and future workforce.

Each year, hundreds of apprentices, trainees and experienced engineers develop and maintain the skills that keep our networks safe, resilient and ready for the future. Last year alone, over 500,000 hours of training were delivered, the majority supporting our Energy Networks business - directly underpinning grid modernisation and the delivery of an electric future.

As ScottishPower continues to invest heavily in upgrading and expanding its network infrastructure, this role is central to how we build, sustain and evolve technical capability at scale.

Role overview

* Senior leadership role with ScottishPower-wide accountability for technical training.

* Leadership of a specialist team of approximately 50 professionals across delivery, quality, planning, design and improvement.

* Responsibility for an OPEX budget of around £5m, with input into CAPEX proposals and income generating activity.

* Oversight of inhouse training centres and outsourced provision.

* Translating ScottishPower's health, safety, environmental & quality policies into deliverable and relevant training outcomes that fully comply with engineering standards.

* Providing direction and leadership to ensure that all Technical Training staff act as role models, setting and maintaining behavioural standards for ScottishPower trainees.

* Extensive engagement with senior leaders, regulators, industry bodies and skills partners across the UK, providing leadership, influence and insight across the technical training landscape in a highly regulated environment.

What you'll be accountable for

As Head of Technical Training, you will set and lead the ScottishPower wide technical training strategy, ensuring it aligns with current operational needs, business plans, and future system requirements.

A key aspect of the role is embedding high standards of health & safety, environmental and quality compliance in our future workforce, through establishing career-long expectations for health & safety compliance and customer focus amongst ScottishPower staff.

You'll provide strategic direction across the full training lifecycle - from programme design and delivery to quality assurance, legal compliance and continuous improvement - setting clear standards and governance across all technical training provision.

Additionally, you'll work closely with senior operational leaders, regulators and external partners to shape how technical skills are developed at scale, while ensuring our training centres, systems and facilities keep pace with evolving technology, regulation and business priorities.

This is a high-profile leadership role, combining long-term strategic impact with real operational grounding.

What you'll bring

This role requires an accomplished leader with deep operational engineering experience, ideally gained in utilities, infrastructure, transport, petrochemicals or other high hazard, time critical environments.

You'll bring:

* Significant experience leading technical training or operational engineering functions within a large, complex organisation.

* A strong understanding of engineering compliance, health & safety legislation, regulatory requirements, and operational risk.

* The credibility and confidence to influence senior stakeholders, challenge constructively and build alignment around a long-term vision.

* A proven ability to develop leaders, build high performing teams and embed continuous improvement.

* Insight into how future skills must evolve to support an increasingly complex energy system

* The ability to balance regulatory certainty with innovation, leading capability development in environments shaped by public scrutiny, operational risk and long-term system change.

Why this role matters

This is a rare opportunity to lead one of the most significant technical training operations in the UK energy sector.

Your leadership will directly influence how ScottishPower - and the wider industry - develops the skills required for the energy transition, underpinning grid resilience, safety and the delivery of major infrastructure investment.

If you're motivated by purpose, scale and the opportunity to leave a lasting legacy on a nationally important capability, we'd love to hear from you.

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy several other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.
At Scottish Power, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future, and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow.

That's why our benefits include:
⦁ 36 days annual leave
⦁ Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
⦁ Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
⦁ Payroll giving and charity matched funding
⦁ Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
⦁ Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
⦁ Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
⦁ Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
⦁ Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
⦁ Life Assurance (4x salary)
⦁ Access to 'nudge' financial wellbeing support
⦁ Plus, shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network - connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It's a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland's ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we're taking it very seriously.

We're investing over £5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in