Competence Development Specialist
Warwick, GB, CV34 5YA
Competence Development Specialist
Competitive Salary + Company Car
Location: Home-based with frequent UK-wide travel with overnight stays | Head Office: Warwick
At Volvo Group, we don’t just build trucks. We drive prosperity through innovative transport and infrastructure solutions that empower societies and businesses around the world. We build more than transport; we build people. We’re proud to be a global leader in sustainable transport solutions, but even prouder of the people behind it.
Now, we’re looking for a Competence Development Specialist. Someone who’s ready to take a step into supporting the growth of our people across the dealer network and our valued customers throughout the UK.
You know what good looks like on a workshop floor. Maybe you’re an HGV Technician or a Workshop controller, who’s always been the go to person for advice. Maybe you've enjoyed coaching apprentices or mentoring your team. Now, you're ready to do more to inspire others, share your expertise, and help shape the future of Volvo Group's technical capability.
What We Can Offer You:
- Professional growth and development: Such as becoming an Assessor for EMOB and supporting you to achieve Level 4 in Education & Training.
- Company bonus: Enjoy up to a 5% yearly bonus provided by the company.
- Pension scheme: Matched up to 7% of your salary, including death in service cover.
- Medical Insurance: Medical insurance coverage is provided by Bupa.
- Employee Assistance program: To support your overall wellbeing, take advantage of our wellness, mindfulness and counselling services.
- Generous holiday allowance: Start with 25 days and watch it grow to 30 days with length of service, plus bank holidays.
- Discounts on various purchases: Enjoy savings on shopping vouchers, cinema tickets, holidays, and travel.
- Fitness perks: Access MyGymDiscounts and MyActiveDiscounts. Make use of our on-site gym.
- Enhanced family-friendly policies: We value work-life balance and offer enhanced family-friendly policies, including maternity leave with 6 months full pay and 6 months half pay, as well as 5 weeks paternity leave.
For more details regarding our benefits, please follow the link: volvo-employee-benefits-document.pdf (volvogroup.com)
Who Are You and Your New Colleagues?
You're a hands on expert with strong workshop knowledge and even stronger people skills. You have naturally taken on a coaching or mentoring role in the team.
You’ll bring with you:
- A solid understanding of how retail networks function
- A strong technical background with experience on the workshop floor.
- Experience with workshop IT systems or similar industry tools
- Strong understanding of how dealer networks operate and what great customer service means
- Excellent communicator, able to engage confidently at all levels, both written and verbal
- Skilled at building trust and sharing knowledge in an approachable way
- Proactive self-starter who works well independently and adapts to change
- Ideally, an HND/HNC qualification (though equivalent experience is welcome)
You’ll report to our Technical Training Manager and become part of a collaborative, experienced team. Day-to-day, you’ll partner closely with internal colleagues, the dealer network, and large fleet customers.
What You’ll do:
What You’ll do:
- Deliver engaging training sessions that follow clear module specifications and align with our business’s commercial competence plans.
- Ensure that learning sticks by embedding and re-evaluating competence development promptly, making sure every training activity truly builds the skills needed.
- Collaborate closely with external suppliers to maintain high quality and consistent training programs across the network.
- Take ownership of delivering all agreed competence development solutions professionally, effectively and on time.
- Support a variety of key Competence Development initiatives including apprenticeship programmes, the Technician of the Year competition and others.
- Create bespoke learning packages based on defined needs
- Help shape the learning environment across our network
- Travel regularly across the UK to deliver training and visit sites, frequent nights away, at least 2 nights a week.
- Travel to Sweden for additional training and development.
Whether you're a trainer in the making or already delivering in a technical coaching role, Apply today! Or pass this on to someone who should.
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Who we are and what we believe in
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.
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