Sennelager, Germany

Job Summary

Do you want to work for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and play a key role in supporting Defence capability overseas? DIO manages one of the UK’s largest and most diverse estates, enabling Armed Forces personnel to live, work, train and deploy. From supporting carbon‑net zero infrastructure to facilitating world‑class training areas, our outputs are unique across Defence.

DIO Regional Delivery Overseas & Training delivers facilities management, training estate services, and performance assurance across Canada, Kenya, Belize, Germany, Norway, Brunei and Nepal. We work closely with military users, suppliers, and DIO Operations teams to ensure safe, compliant, and effective training environments.

We are seeking a Training Safety Officer (TSO) to support the Sennelager Training Estate in Germany. The postholder will provide ‘safe place to train’ assurance, enabling units to conduct effective training while ensuring compliance with Defence Safety Authority regulations. You will also act as a key focal point for assurance inspections and support deconfliction and allocation of training areas, including NATO Forward Sennelager.

This is a 3‑year tour, extendable to 5 years with agreement. The position is full‑time at 37 hours per week.

Job Description

The Training Safety Officer will:

Provide ‘safe place to train’ support across Sennelager Training Estate, including enabling training activity and delivering first‑party assurance of training facilities.
Monitor and assure compliance.
Demonstrate a strong understanding of the Safe System of Training and user requirements.
Liaise with the Range Allocating Authority to ensure integrity of Range Control outputs.
Lead on daily checks, range and training infrastructure inspections, review of risk assessments, updates to Range Standing Orders, and coordination of 2nd and 3rd party inspections.
Act as lead officer for Range Control, including assurance of activity documentation, RDA trace checks and Daily Safety Summary assurance.
Lead on allocation and deconfliction of Defence Estate training areas.
Provide line management to assigned staff.
Serve as the focal point for Range Control administration, processes and personnel.

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The Training Safety Officer Will

Provide ‘safe place to train’ support across Sennelager Training Estate, including enabling training activity and delivering first‑party assurance of training facilities.
Monitor and assure compliance.
Demonstrate a strong understanding of the Safe System of Training and user requirements.
Liaise with the Range Allocating Authority to ensure integrity of Range Control outputs.
Lead on daily checks, range and training infrastructure inspections, review of risk assessments, updates to Range Standing Orders, and coordination of 2nd and 3rd party inspections.
Act as lead officer for Range Control, including assurance of activity documentation, RDA trace checks and Daily Safety Summary assurance.
Lead on allocation and deconfliction of Defence Estate training areas.
Provide line management to assigned staff.
Serve as the focal point for Range Control administration, processes and personnel.

A proven record in delivering or supporting a “safe place to train” through direct or transferable skills.
Experience planning and delivering large‑scale training, applying military judgement to assurance and safe delivery in an overseas environment.
Experience working in a training estate environment with large training audiences.
Familiarity with Defence range documentation including DSA 03, Range Standing Orders and site‑specific risk assessments.
Understanding of regulatory publications and experience ensuring compliant training estate infrastructure.
Experience preparing for and supporting external assurance inspections, along with incident reporting and management exposure.
Experience working with mixed civilian and military workforces, with an understanding of Diversity and Inclusion responsibilities.
Strong interpersonal skills, confidence in engaging with diverse stakeholders, and the ability to prioritise resources effectively

Desirable Qualifications

LFTT Qualifications: SA(A)(90), AFV(A), MOR(A)
NEBOSH General Certificate
Cat B Driving Licence
MOD 1/2 GS Land Rover Conversion

Essential

Full UK Driving Licence

Licences

Full UK Driving Licence

Evidence will be required at interview.

All qualifications, licences or memberships declared must be held at point of application and if applicable be in date. Equivalents will not be accepted.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Leadership
Communicating and Influencing
Working Together
Making Effective Decisions

Alongside your salary of £37,720, Ministry of Defence contributes £10,927 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Learning and development tailored to your role
An environment with flexible working options
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Discover My Benefits

Please follow the link to visit the Discover My Benefits site which showcases the benefits and discounts offered when working as a civilian for the MOD. https://discovermybenefits.mod.gov.uk/civilian/

This post offers full relocation allowances subject to availability. Cost of Living Overseas Allowances is payable based on personal circumstances and marital status.

Please read the attached document ‘SOFA Restrictions’ to confirm you are eligible to apply for this post.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Please ensure that at the application and interview stages of the campaign you review the Success Profiles Framework to assist you in the demonstration of your skills and experience.

Your suitability for the role will be assessed using the Success Profile elements that have been chosen for this campaign. Each element will be scored accordingly, and the successful candidate will be appointed on merit.

Candidates Will Be Required To Provide

CV details to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience.
A Statement of Suitability. (750 Words)

At sift, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

CV , previous skills and experience
Personal Statement
Leadership
Communicating & Influencing
Working together
Making Effective Decision

At interview, you will be assessed against the Success Profiles Behaviours:

Communicating & Influencing
Working together
Making Effective Decisions

Personal Statement

Detailing in no more than 750 words, please use examples to demonstrate relevant, suitable experience and knowledge at an appropriate level as to how you meet the job criteria.

When writing a personal statement, it is important that you:

Read the job specification so you are clear about the job requirements
Outline the skills and experience that you have that are relevant to the job and use examples to help demonstrate this
Keep to the word limit, if your statement is too brief it will not provide the required depth of detail and evidence to be assessed fully
Please do not use acronyms

We require you to provide evidence and a demonstration of specific skills, knowledge or transferable experience. This will allow you to provide evidence to show a more rounded picture of your suitability for the role.

Applications will be sifted on all Success Profile elements, but in the event of a significant number of applications, an initial sift will be conducted on the lead behaviour of Making Effective Decisions, CV, previous skills and experience and Personal Statement.

Application sifting is scheduled to take place on week commencing: W/C 18 May 2026

Interviews will be conducted by video on MS Teams week commencing: W/C 25 May 2026

Please note these dates may be subject to change depending on business requirements.

A minimum of 2 full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews.

This vacancy will be assessed at HEO grade

Please read the attached ‘SOFA Restrictions’ document to confirm you are eligible to apply for this post.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey – we may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights. 

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

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Contact point for applicants

Job Contact

Name : Lt Col Daniel Morrell
Email : Daniel.Morrell488@mod.gov.uk

Recruitment team

Email : DBSCivPers-ResourcingTeam1@mod.gov.uk

Further information

Please see Further Information document attached.

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