Technical Training Lead

Job Description

We are looking for a Technical Training Lead to drive the strategy, delivery, and continuous improvement of technical training across our global organisation. This is a key leadership role responsible for managing a team of Technical Trainers, ensuring high-quality training delivery, and developing innovative learning solutions that support employees, partners, and customers.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Leading and develop a team of Technical Trainers, ensuring capability, performance, and resource planning align with business needs.
• Overseeing the design, delivery, and governance of technical training programmes across multiple product lines and competency levels.
• Managing and maintaining a comprehensive library of training materials, ensuring content remains current, accessible, and available in multiple formats and languages where required.
• Coordinating Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across the business to support specialist training delivery.
• Driving the adoption of modern learning technologies, including eLearning, video-based learning, and emerging solutions such as VR.
• Monitoring training effectiveness, analyse skills gaps, and use insights to continuously improve learning outcomes.
• Ensuring accurate administration and reporting within the Learning Management System (LMS).
• Partnering with Sales, Service, Product Development, L&D, and external providers to support product launches, customer training, onboarding, and wider learning initiatives.
• Promoting training opportunities across the business and support the commercial delivery of customer training solutions.
• Representing the Training function in new product development, product improvement, and business-wide capability projects.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience leading technical training, learning, or capability development teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across multiple functions.
• Experience designing and delivering technical training programmes in a complex or engineering-based environment.
• Knowledge of LMS platforms, training analytics, and competency-based learning frameworks.
• Passion for developing people and creating engaging learning experiences.
• Excellent organisational, communication, and project management skills.
• A proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to shape the future of technical learning within a global organisation, influence capability development at scale, and lead initiatives that make a measurable impact on employee performance, customer success, and business growth.

Qualifications

Essential Skills, Qualifications and experience

• Experience in a technical training, Learning and Development (L&D), or instructional design role, ideally with prior management / leadership experience.
• Competency in using Learning Management Systems (LMS) and development of eLearning materials.
• Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into accessible, engaging educational content.
• Excellent presentation, coaching, and stakeholder management skills to work cross-functionally.
• Experience leveraging data-driven insights to define success metrics and drive continuous improvement in training programs.
• Appreciation of Project management and resource coordination operating across a global workplace. 
• HND / HNC (or equivalent) in Engineering, preferably electrical, electronic or mechatronics.
• Ideally In-depth understanding of the relevant industries Rotork operate in (Petrochemical, Water treatment and Power industries).
• Ideally experience in Rotork products (Electric and/or Fluid power actuators, network systems) or equivalent technical product knowledge, allied with a good understanding and appreciation of their application. 
• Prepared to travel, sometimes at short notice, both within country and overseas.

Additional Information

Rotork is the market-leading global flow control and instrumentation company, helping our customers manage the flow or liquids, gases and powders across many industries worldwide.

Our purpose is Keeping the World Flowing for Future Generations.

For over sixty years, the world has relied on us to create the things that keep everything moving. From oil and gas to water and shipping, pharmaceuticals and food- these are the flows on which our modern world depends.

Today we're respected and admired for our people, performance and products.