Production Training & Capability Lead

EDGE; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Pulse Nova is seeking a Training Lead to design, implement, and continuously improve the manufacturing training and competency framework. You will ensure a skilled, compliant workforce and production readiness in a regulated defense manufacturing environment.

You will oversee role-based training, operator certification, skills management and standardized work while collaborating with Production, Engineering, Quality and HSE to drive governance and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years in manufacturing training/industrial learning roles.
• Experience deploying skills matrices, certification frameworks, and shopfloor training.
• Solid understanding of Lean/CI and daily management routines (5S, problem solving).
• Ability to create operator-friendly training materials and assessments.
• Experience working with Quality, Engineering and HSE to maintain training compliance and audits.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain the training system to support safe, repeatable and high‑quality 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

Lean / CI

Quality & HSE coordination

On-the-job coaching

Documentation

Job description

Pulse Nova is seeking a Training Lead to design, implement, and continuously improve the manufacturing training and competency framework. You will ensure a skilled, compliant workforce and production readiness in a regulated defense manufacturing environment.

You will oversee role-based training, operator certification, skills management and standardized work while collaborating with Production, Engineering, Quality and HSE to drive governance and continuous improvement.