Specialist Trainer Assessor - Construction Skills

Bridgwater and Taunton College are looking for an outstanding individual with Construction Sector experience to join our delivery team. You will need to be a motivated and enthusiastic professional, proactive, student-centred individual who can provide expertise to further enhance our teaching, learning, assessment and curriculum development.

This particular role is required for Bridgwater & Taunton College to fulfil the growing skills demand in order to meet local and national construction skills workforce requirements.

We are particularly interested in individuals with sector practical experience in construction skills and ideally, you will have relevant skills and knowledge in one or more of the following areas:

• Groundworks
• Plant Operative

However, if you have more broader Construction Skills experience, we would still be interested in your application.

We welcome applications without educational sector experience as support and training will be given to the successful candidate.

The successful candidate will be based at the Construction Skills and Innovation Centre (CSIC), located in Cannington, Somerset was built in partnership between Bridgwater & Taunton College and Industry. The centre is a unique and vast training facility designed to train and up-skilling apprentices, experienced workers and civil engineers, CSIC also replicates a real-life construction site, with industry-standard plant, machinery and equipment. Furthermore, construction site behaviours and standards are learned alongside specific technical knowledge and skills.

If you would like to discuss the role in more detail, please e-mail the Infrastructure Skills Manager Ian Augar to find out more.

BTC offer a range of fantastic employee benefits including:

Generous pension scheme

Competitive holiday entitlement

Dedicated CPD days

2 wellbeing days

2-week Christmas closure

Opportunities for hybrid working

On-site discounted gym

Free parking

BTC Extra discount package, this includes top retailers, supermarkets, holidays, entertainment packages and much more!

BTC is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and communities. We are also a disability confident employer and we ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments. We encourage everyone to apply who wishes to and we believe that everyone should have an equal opportunity

Bridgwater & Taunton College are proposing to merge with Strode College in August 2025 to form a stronger College Group to continue to serve its learners, employers, and the wider Somerset Community.

Applicants who apply for a role at Bridgwater & Taunton College and who start their employment after 31 July 2025 will be contracted under the newly merged organisation to be known as UCS College Group (University Centre Somerset College Group)

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