Education & Training Leader

The primary function of this role is to lead and execute Education & Training (E&T) standards across the site. This includes owning and maintaining training materials, managing the skills qualification process, and ensuring training documentation systems remain accurate and compliant. The role is accountable for E&T performance by maintaining the site skills matrix, analyzing and reporting monthly training results, and developing and coaching site E&T functional leaders to drive capability and organizational growth.

Location: McCalla, AL  

Work Arrangements: Monday–Friday with flexibility to support operations during occasional evenings, nights, or weekends, based on operational and business needs. 

In this role you will:  

• Own E&T scorecard and monthly Results

• Owns and maintains E&T skills matrix

• Assess needs to achieve zero loss due to training outages

• Point of contact with corporate for all company E&T initiatives

• Identify E&T standardization, consistency, and implement best practices

• Act as leadership team’s liaison to the teams E&T outages & wins

• Work with operations leaders to identify loss due to lack of training

• Coach and develop E&T Functional Leaders

• Facilitate E&T skill building and meetings on regular cadence

• Facilitate all step up card revisions, getting approval from Operations, Technical Team, Equipment Owners

• Own, record, and manage Step-up card and qualification process

• Own and facilitate all computer qualification testing and training

• Owns master copies of all operator manuals, working closely with EO’s to keep material up to date

• Maintains the Document control system for site

• Maintain personnel training records and reports

• Manage training files in Workday Learning Module

• Support the Development/Execution of training materials for the site

• Administer Mechanical Aptitude Test

• Support and model Operational Excellence work system behaviors

• Preserve Smucker culture

• Workday Learning Partner

• Utilize team members to successfully drive high-performance work culture with a focus on understanding, prioritizing, eliminating losses, and building and executing effective short- and long-term plans 

• Effectively communicate expectations, provides timely feedback, and manages performance of team

• Develop team members to successfully perform current and future roles 

What we are looking for:  

Minimum Requirements: 

• A bachelor’s degree is required or 5 years of experience building and leading education and training systems in a manufacturing environment.

• Minimum of 2 years of manufacturing operational experience or food manufacturing preferred   

• Minimum of 2 years of experience leading, supervising, or managing others preferred   

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:  

• Ability to work under limited supervision while managing multiple priorities and projects

• Strong Organizational skills

• Experience facilitating meetings and presentation skills

• Demonstrates strong computer skills Microsoft word, Excel, Power Point, etc.

• Ability to lead team to execute plans and achieve results 

• Can lead, coach, and develop others

• Strong leadership skills

• Project management skills

• Problem solving skills

• Strong inter-personal skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Willingness to work a flexible schedule that most effectively supports the organization  

• Ability to work off-shifts or weekends as needed