Manufacturing Training Lead: Operator Certification & Lean

EDGE; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Pulse Nova in Abu Dhabi, UAE seeks a Training Lead to design, implement, and continuously improve the manufacturing training and competency framework for a regulated defense manufacturing environment.

The role oversees role-based training, operator qualification, skills management, and standardized work while aligning with quality, safety, and operational requirements to drive workforce capability and governance.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years in manufacturing training / industrial learning roles.
• Experience deploying skills matrices, certification frameworks and standardized work training at shopfloor level.
• Solid understanding of Lean/CI principles and daily management routines (standard work, 5S, problem solving).
• Ability to create operator-friendly training materials and assessments, and to run train-the-trainer / coaching programs.
• Experience working with Quality, Engineering and HSE to maintain training compliance, documentation and audit readiness.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain the training system to support safe, repeatable and highquality production execution
• Define role-based training paths and manage the skills matrix, ensuring onboarding, certification/ re-certification are executed on time
• Develop and maintain training standards and content (standard work, visual aids, work instructions, assessments) with strong document control
• Execute operator qualification and skills testing, tracking training records and ensuring full traceability for audits and production readiness
• Establish training governance with Production TL (cadence, metrics, audits) and coach leaders on on-the-job training best practices
• Monitor training KPIs (time-to-competence, certification coverage, training compliance) and link outcomes to shopfloor performance (FPY, defects, scrap)
• Ensure training is updated and deployed after engineering changes or process updates (ECNs), and aligned with CI/Lean improvements

Skills

Training design

Skills matrix

Coaching

Lean/CI

Documentation

Job description

Pulse Nova in Abu Dhabi, UAE seeks a Training Lead to design, implement, and continuously improve the manufacturing training and competency framework for a regulated defense manufacturing environment.

The role oversees role-based training, operator qualification, skills management, and standardized work while aligning with quality, safety, and operational requirements to drive workforce capability and governance.