Lead, Learning and Development - Fossil & Corporate

Talen Energy Supply; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Talen Energy Supply's Learning & Development team partners with Plant Operations to build workforce capability, strengthen safety culture, and support safe, reliable power generation. As a working team lead, you will guide learning professionals while personally assessing, designing, delivering, and evaluating technical, safety, and regulatory training across operating locations.

You will supervise a staff, lead strategic partnerships, and oversee instructional design and program development,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Learning & Development, Instructional Design, Education, HR, or related field; or equivalent experience.
• Eight or more years of progressive learning and development experience with instructional design and supervision.
• Experience conducting needs assessments and developing instructor-led, digital, and blended learning programs.
• Experience consulting with business leaders and using LMS and instructional design technologies.
• Strong project leadership, communication, stakeholder engagement, analytical, and cross-functional coordination skills.
• Ability to travel periodically to operating facilities and work in plant environments.
• Nuclear plant background and security clearance requirements, where applicable.

Responsibilities

• Supervise, coach, develop, and evaluate learning and development staff; set expectations and provide performance feedback.
• Prioritize team workloads, monitor quality and capacity, and provide instructional design guidance.
• Partner with operations and leaders to assess capability gaps and training priorities; align learning plans with readiness and compliance.
• Design, develop, deliver, and improve technical, operational, safety, and regulatory training using varied modalities.
• Create assessments, job aids, and train-the-trainer programs; apply AI-enabled learning where appropriate.
• Lead governance and evaluation of training programs; coordinate with vendors and platforms across locations.

Skills

Instructional design

Project leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Learning & Development or related field

Tools

Learning management systems

Job description

he Learning & Development team partners with Plant Operations to build workforce capability, strengthen safety culture, and support safe, reliable power generation. As a working team lead with direct reports, you will guide learning professionals while personally assessing, designing, delivering, and evaluating technical, safety, and regulatory learning solutions across operating locations.

How You'll Power the Future

People Leadership and Team Development

• Supervise, coach, develop, and evaluate assigned learning and development staff; set expectations and provide performance feedback.
• Prioritize team workloads, monitor quality and capacity, and provide instructional design guidance and review.
• Build team capability, accountability, and consistent learning standards; identify staffing and vendor needs.

Strategic Learning Partnership and Needs Assessment

• Partner with Plant Operations and Corporate leaders to assess current and emerging capability gaps, performance challenges, and training priorities.
• Align learning plans with operational readiness, workforce planning, knowledge transfer, and changing technology, equipment, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

Instructional Design and Training Development

• Design, develop, deliver, and improve technical, operational, safety, compliance, and employee development training.
• Apply adult learning principles across instructor-led, digital, blended, and on-the-job learning; translate complex content with subject matter experts.
• Create assessments, videos, job aids, facilitator guides, and train-the-trainer programs, using AI and automation where appropriate.

Safety Culture and Safety Training

• Partner with plant leaders and Environmental, Health & Safety to reinforce a proactive safety culture.
• Develop and maintain learning on hazard recognition, risk awareness, safe work practices, and accountability, incorporating lessons from incidents, near misses, observations, and procedure changes.
• Support employee and contractor safety onboarding and refreshers; collaborate with course owners to keep content current.

NERC and Regulatory Training Support

• Partner with NERC Compliance, Plant Operations, and technical experts across applicable business units to develop and maintain regulatory learning content.
• Translate approved requirements into instruction aligned with applicable standards, company policies, and operating procedures.

Training Solutions, Governance, and Effectiveness

• Evaluate internal development versus external providers, vendors, and learning technologies based on business need, quality, cost, and outcomes.
• Coordinate external training and evaluate vendor performance and resource effectiveness.
• Establish training intake, prioritization, design, delivery, evaluation, maintenance, and content review processes.
• Lead concurrent initiatives across locations; partner with course owners, learning systems administrators, and Corporate Learning & Development on platform-ready content and consistent standards.
• Measure quality, participation, proficiency, and effectiveness; communicate priorities, results, and improvements to stakeholders.

What You Have

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Learning & Development, Instructional Design, Education, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent education and experience.
• Eight or more years of progressive learning and development experience, must have instructional design expertise or technical training and supervising, coaching, or leading training professionals.
• Experience conducting needs assessments and developing instructor-led, digital, and blended learning programs.
• Experience consulting with business leaders and using learning management systems and instructional design technologies.
• Strong project leadership, communication, stakeholder engagement, analytical, and cross-functional coordination skills.
• Ability to travel periodically to operating facilities and work in plant environments while following safety requirements.
• Ability to meet nuclear plant background and security clearance requirements, where applicable.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in power generation, utilities, energy, manufacturing, or other industrial environments.
• Experience developing technical, operational, safety, or regulatory training.
• Familiarity with NERC Reliability Standards, Critical Infrastructure Protection training, and other regulatory obligations.
• Knowledge of OSHA requirements, industrial safety practices, safety management systems, and EHS partnerships.
• Experience with competency-based training, knowledge transfer, outsourced learning solutions, video production, and AI-enabled learning tools.
• Professional certification in learning and development, instructional design, project man