Lead Training Specialist

Job Summary

Responsible for coordinating, delivering, and maintaining the training processes for team members. Ensures training standards are met, materials remain current, and team members are effectively prepared to perform their roles. Serves as a mentor and resources, supporting junior team members, collaborating with training labs, and promoting workforce development through coaching, feedback, performance tracking, and documentation. Provides support to leadership team.

Key Responsibilities

1. Provides directions and guidance in scheduling, planning, training, and certification process, including providing information, training, feedback, documentation, and reporting.
2. Supports team and business needs providing orientation, safety courses, and similar style training including on-the-job training (OJT), and practical's.
3. Works with junior team members and training lab to support training needs providing assistance, guidance, documentation, and coaching during and after the training experience.
4. Provides all required formal training to team members, including instructing courses in a classroom environment and using training resources, digital media, and E-learning.
5. Reviews and updates reporting, records, progression tracking, and documentation of associates.
6. Works with the team to keep trainings reviewed and updated.
7. Facilitates hands-on learning, evaluates trainee progress, and recommends certification upon completion.

8. Helps team members grow and develop.

Minimum Qualifications (Educations & Experience)

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent
• 5+ years of relevant experience or the knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed in the role
  • will consider a combination of experience and 2 years post high school education in related field
• Extensive safety training in OSHA compliance: Outreach Trainer Instructor for OSHA 10-30 Hour Courses; or willingness to attend and complete compliance

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Butterball Core Competencies

Caring about people, valuing contributions, and empowering to succeed is the Butterball Way. We recognize the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to Butterball and seek to create an environment where everyone can thrive. Everyone has a seat at the table and is expected to embody our core competencies:

• Safety First: We put safety first. The health, safety, and well-being of our people, products, and turkeys is everyone's responsibility and everyone's jobs.
• Integrity: We trust each other to do the right thing. We act with integrity and gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, respect, and authenticity.
• Stewardship: We take care of what matters. We are accountable to our commitments and take responsibility for the well-being of our teams, our quality, our customers, our business, our brand, and our communities. We are always answerable for our actions and those we lead.
• Enthusiastic Attitudes: We create a climate where everyone feels they belong and can be engaged, every day. Where our people are enthusiastic and motivated to do their best and work together to make great things happen.
• Continuous Improvement: We are committed to continuous improvement. We challenge ourselves and our company to constantly learn, develop, grow, improve, and innovate.

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience Working in a team-based environment
• Strong judgement with the ability to guide work and delegate tasks appropriately
• Proven ability to coach, train and support peers
• Ability to facilitate learning and transfer information in a digestible and organized manner
• Great communication skills and public speaking with the ability to effectively communicate with all levels
• Fluent computer skills, experience or knowledge with relevant software(s), and with the proven ability to accurately track records, create training, and edit related media
• Strong organization, time-management, problem-solving, prioritization, and multi-tasking skills
• Ability to work a flexible schedule

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• MEL status within the IMTWS to required standards
• Bilingual - English, Spanish, Creole
• Technical abilities and knowledge within industrial systems and maintenance

• Software knowledge including Microsoft Office - Access, Excel, Word, Publisher, PowerPoint, Outlook, SAP / CMMS, Adobe software extending to Acrobat, Outstart Trainer or Tranvantis Lectora

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, walk, sit, talk, hear, reach, bend, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate equipment, computer, telephone, keyboard, and occasionally climb and lift up to or about 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, color vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions & Travel Requirements

• Work will be performed in a variety of conditions including a climate-controlled office environment(s) and in a manufacturing plant environment with varying conditions, such as cold areas, wet areas, warm areas, chemicals, and other site conditions. This position requires the individual to wear and work in personal protective equipment while in the manufacturing environment.
• The noise level of the office environment is usually moderate; the noise level in the manufacturing environment may exceed 85 DBA and require hearing protection.
• Occasional travel may be required

Disclaimer

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of what is required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not imply or establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer. Butterball, LLC is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to the fair and impartial treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without regard to gender, age, race, religion, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, military/veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, marital status, parental status, pregnancy, or any other status protected by law. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.