Job Title: Manufacturing Training Specialist
Industry: Manufacturing
Location: Fairport, NY
Shift: First shift, Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Client Overview
Provisional, since no approved overview was available: Our client is a global materials science leader with more than 170 years of history in specialty glass, ceramics, and optical technologies. This role sits within the training function at one of its advanced manufacturing plants. It owns how production employees are onboarded, trained, and qualified on the floor.
Top 3 Skills
- Structured on-the-job training delivery and auditing, such as Training Within Industry (TWI) Job Instruction
- Learning management system administration, including assignments, curricula, records, and reporting
- eLearning content development and instructional design
What You ll Do
- Serve as the plant s TWI trainer and auditor, delivering Job Instruction training and checking that it s applied consistently
- Administer the plant s digital work instruction and knowledge platform, including content structure, user access, and deployment
- Run LMS activity for the plant, including assignments, curricula, training records, reports, and user support
- Coordinate and lead new employee onboarding
- Design, build, update, and deploy eLearning content
- Lead or support plant training projects and cross-department improvement efforts
- Evaluate and roll out training technologies that make delivery and administration easier
- Coach and support process training and qualification leads across departments
What We Need From You
- Bachelor s degree in education, instructional design, engineering, or a related field
- Experience developing, delivering, or administering training in a manufacturing, technical, or operational setting, including classroom and hands-on facilitation
- Experience administering a learning system, keeping accurate training records, and using training data to find gaps
- Ability to build training content and eLearnings across multiple media
- US citizen or national, per ITAR requirements (no sponsorship available), and able to wear safety glasses and steel-toed shoes on the plant floor
Preferred / Bonus
- TWI Job Instruction certification
- Experience with Dozuki or TrueBlue Learning
- Administrator experience on a SCORM-compliant LMS
- Experience with eLearning authoring tools
- Experience conducting training audits against a standardized method
- Experience with Power Platform, training automation, reporting, or system integrations
- Knowledge of manufacturing operations, process standardization, qualification systems, and continuous improvement