Education & Training Leader

The J.M. Smucker Co.; McCalla (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The J.M. Smucker Co. in McCalla, AL is seeking an Education and Training Leader to drive E&T standards across the site, maintain training materials, and ensure compliant documentation.

You will own the training scorecard, develop functional leaders, and collaborate with Operations to minimize training outages while preserving Smucker culture. This role requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, and flexibility to support operations during evenings or weekends as needed.

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• Own E&T scorecard and monthly results
• Owns and maintains E&T skills matrix
• Assess needs to achieve zero loss due to training
• 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
• 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
• 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 drive high-performance work culture
• Effectively communicate expectations and manage performance

Skills

Education & Training systems

Manufacturing experience

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Workday Learning

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Your Opportunity as the Education and 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

Minimum Requirements

What we are looking for:

• 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

The Right Place for You

We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.

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We're an equal opportunity employer.

All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.