Operations Learning & Capability Lead

Schweid & Sons; College Park (GA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

PTO & holidays

Health benefits

401(k) + employer match

On-site role in College Park, GA

Job summary

Schweid & Sons in College Park, GA, is seeking an Operations Training & Development Manager to lead the site learning system, close skill gaps, and drive just-in-time training across manufacturing operations.

You will own the qualification process, partner with operations, quality, safety, and maintenance to embed learning into daily work, and measure training effectiveness to reduce losses and boost site capability.

Qualifications

• Experience leading learning, training, capability building, or continuous improvement systems in manufacturing, supply chain, or operations.
• Ability to conduct skill gap analysis, build curricula, manage training plans, and evaluate learning effectiveness.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, stakeholder management, communication, and change leadership skills.
• Ability to work across functions and influence leaders, subject matter experts, trainers, and front-line teams without relying solely on formal authority.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the site learning strategy aligned to business priorities and loss-elimination goals.
• Lead skill needs assessment and prioritization processes to identify current and future capability gaps by role, team, department, and value stream.
• Translate prioritized gaps into an annual and dynamic training plan, including curriculum, audience, trainer requirements, delivery methods, calendar, resources, facilities, and success measures.
• Design and govern performance-based learning solutions such as One Point Lessons, job aids, on-the-job training, workshops, self-study, digital learning, and roll-down training.
• Build and maintain trainer and subject matter expert systems, including trainer selection, qualification, coaching, recognition, and train-the-trainer capability.
• Ensure each training program includes clear learning objectives, task or knowledge requirements, hands‑on practice, supporting materials, and a verification or qualification step.
• Own the qualification process and skill tracking system to verify that employees can demonstrate the required capability at the needed proficiency level.
• Partner with operations, quality, safety, maintenance, warehouse, engineering, and other process owners to integrate learning into daily work and eliminate skill-related losses.
• Maintain training materials, records, learning systems, and facilities so that training is available when and where needed.
• Measure learning effectiveness using in-process and outcome measures, including training completion, qualification at target level, training system health, and reduction of losses due to lack of skill.
• Develops and maintains site skills matrix to ensure depth of knowledge throughout the organization.

Skills

Training leadership

Capability building

Continuous improvement

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Change leadership

Job description

Schweid & Sons in College Park, GA, is seeking an Operations Training & Development Manager to lead the site learning system, close skill gaps, and drive just-in-time training across manufacturing operations.

You will own the qualification process, partner with operations, quality, safety, and maintenance to embed learning into daily work, and measure training effectiveness to reduce losses and boost site capability.