Training Manager

Georgia Pacific; Janesville (WI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific's Foodservice Solutions division seeks a Training Manager for our Janesville, WI facility. This role supports workforce development, maintains curricula, tracks employee skill progression, and partners with plant leadership to ensure readiness before role progression.

The role involves sustaining training programs, onboarding new hires, and driving continuous improvement across the plant's training processes. Based in Janesville, regional production focus is in Wisconsin.

Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing, industrial, training, operations, or leadership role.
• Experience supporting or leading employee training, onboarding, skill development, or process standardization.
• Experience working with supervisors, department leaders, or cross-functional teams to execute plant priorities.
• Ability to organize training records, track progression, and follow up on open items.

Responsibilities

• Execute the plant-level training process in alignment with the broader training strategy and organizational direction.
• Facilitate and maintain training curriculum, skill matrices, task sign-offs, and certification records for plant roles.
• Partner with department managers to understand role expectations, training priorities, and skill gaps within their areas.
• Support new hire onboarding.
• Help ensure employees are progressing appropriately before being released into roles independently.
• Maintain visibility to employee training status, readiness concerns, and retraining needs.
• Work with supervisors and leads to reinforce standards after employees are released to the floor.
• Identify barriers in the training process and escalate gaps, concerns, or resource needs to plant leadership.
• Support a culture of continuous improvement, employee development, and workforce investment.

Skills

Manufacturing experience

Training leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Training records management

Tools

SAP

Learning Management Systems

Job description

Overview

Georgia-Pacific's Foodservice Solutions division is seeking a Training Manager to support workforce development and training execution at our manufacturing facility in Janesville, Wisconsin. This position will help facilitate the plant-level training process, maintain training curriculum, track employee skill progression, and partner with plant leadership, department managers, supervisors, and trainers to ensure employees are developing appropriately before being released into roles independently. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting a more structured and consistent training process for the facility. This includes supporting new hire training, role-specific training, on-the-job training, standard practices training, and continued development for employees across the plant. This individual will be based out of the Janesville, Wisconsin facility.

What You Will Do

• Execute the plant-level training process in alignment with the broader training strategy and organizational direction.
• Facilitate and maintain training curriculum, skill matrices, task sign-offs, and certification records for plant roles.
• Partner with department managers to understand role expectations, training priorities, and skill gaps within their areas.
• Support new hire onboarding.
• Help ensure employees are progressing appropriately before being released into roles independently.
• Maintain visibility to employee training status, readiness concerns, and retraining needs.
• Work with supervisors and leads to reinforce standards after employees are released to the floor.
• Identify barriers in the training process and escalate gaps, concerns, or resource needs to plant leadership.
• Support a culture of continuous improvement, employee development, and workforce investment.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in a manufacturing, industrial, training, operations, or leadership role
• Experience supporting or leading employee training, onboarding, skill development, or process standardization
• Experience working with supervisors, department leaders, or cross-functional teams to execute plant priorities
• Ability to organize training records, track progression, and follow up on open items

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience developing or maintaining training curriculum, skill matrices, certification processes, or standard work
• Experience in thermoforming, sheet extrusion, packaging, or plastics manufacturing
• Experience coaching trainers or supporting on-the-job training processes
• Experience using systems such as SAP, learning management systems, or other platforms used for training, documentation, or employee records

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Who We Are

As a Koch company and leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 300,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

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Our Benefits

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Equal Opportunities

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