Technical Trainer

McCain Foods; Whittlesey; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer based in Whittlesey is seeking a Trainer. This role is crucial for ensuring compliance with training mandates, with responsibilities including onboarding, refresher training, and development of training materials. Candidates should possess a strong background in training design and production processes, along with qualifications such as an adult education teaching credential. The successful applicant will thrive in a collaborative environment, supporting not just their site but also traveling occasionally to other facilities.

Qualifications

• Self-motivated individual with a passion for training.
• Experience in facilitation and training design is essential.
• Familiarity with health and safety best practices necessary.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with plant management teams for training accountability.
• Deliver onboarding and compliance training to high standards.
• Develop and implement Safety Transformation training at the plant.
• Evaluate training to ensure continuous improvement.

Skills

Facilitation and training design

Experience of required Production Processes

Training and evaluating outcomes

Prioritising workloads for self

Knowledge of Manufacturing best practice

Knowledge of Health and Safety / Food Safety best practice

Education

Adult education teaching qualification

Highfield certified trainer

ISO certified trainer

Job description

There’s nothing beige about McCain… Except our potatoes — and we’re extremely passionate about them. When you join McCain, you’ll be joining the biggest player in the frozen potato game, bringing people together around the nation for over 60 years by sharing simple, delicious planet friendly food. We’ve partnered with thousands of the country’s supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, hospitals, and schools to change the way people see the humble spud. It’s all about elevation and creating something better. So, come and make your career at McCain Foods.

About The Role

We are looking for a Trainer to join our team at Whittlesey. You will work as part of a wider regional team, but will be responsible for all mandatory training, inductions and refresher training at our Whittlesey site. You will also support the development of writing standard work and the use of self‑paced learning. Occasional travel will be required to support other plants and expenses are covered by McCain.

Responsibilities And Accountabilities

• Collaboration with plant management teams to ensure that their training accountabilities are met.
• Delivery of plant on‑boarding, annual refresher training and other compliance training to the agreed standard and secure other key stakeholders SME’s where required.
• Work with key stakeholders to ensure that all training material is consistent across the region and delivered to an equally high standard.
• Take the lead in the development and implementation and facilitation of all Safety Transformation training at your plant.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to design new courses, material and methods and align current material.
• Evaluate all training carried out to ensure continuous improvement and to ensure delivery against training and learning objectives.
• To support audits by providing information around the training management systems and provide relevant training documentation.
• Support Manufacturing leaders in the development of writing standard work methods and standard operating procedures by increasing their capability.
• Verify SWM’s and SOP’s to the required business standard and manage the plant standard work matrix and version control process.
• Train team leaders, area operations leaders, technical specialist training and facilitation skills so they can effectively deliver training.
• Assist in projects for the training and production departments as requested and deliver findings or recommendations within the agreed time scale.
• Proactively assist managers to identify training needs and skill gaps within their respective teams.
• Manage self‑paced learning and support employees with navigating the system and completing online courses.
• Become a technical expert in all topics covered by the training you deliver.
• Work with other sites where needed to ‘flow to the work’.
• Undertake training and development required to maintain competence in training ability aligned with changing business needs.

About You

We are looking for a self‑motivated individual with a passion for training. Ideally you will have:

• Facilitation and training design.
• Experience of required Production Processes.
• Training and evaluating outcomes.
• Prioritising workloads for self.
• Knowledge of Manufacturing best practice.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety / Food Safety best practice.

To support the key skills above we are looking for someone with the below qualifications:

• Adult education teaching qualification.
• Highfield certified trainer.
• ISO certified trainer.

WHERE YOU’LL WORK?

You’ll be based at our Whittlesey plant in Peterborough. If you’ve spotted our three wind turbines, then you’ll know where we are! With about 350 employees on site, we’re one of our largest plants across the GB business. Our Whittlesey plant is where we make our famous French Fries as well as our chilled products, such as our Shake Shake Fries.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family‑owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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