Manufacturing Technical Trainer

ASML•Wilton, CT

4d•Onsite

About The Position

ASML’s Wilton Factory Learning & Knowledge Management team is seeking a Manufacturing Technical Trainer to help employees build the technical knowledge, practical skills, and confidence needed to succeed in a complex manufacturing environment. The trainer delivers advanced technical learning through instructor-led, virtual, hands-on, and on-the-job experiences, and works with subject matter experts, business stakeholders, learning professionals, and other trainers to support knowledge transfer and improve learning experiences. The role serves as a trainer, facilitator, coach, and technical learning specialist. It involves delivering complex technical content to senior, specialized, and business-critical learner groups; adapting instruction to learner and business needs; qualifying less-experienced trainers and, where applicable, trainees; and preparing co-facilitators and subject matter experts through train-the-trainer sessions, practice sessions, dry runs, and readiness reviews. The trainer also contributes technical and instructional expertise to learning-solution development, supports knowledge management, and evaluates and improves training. This position is located on-site in Wilton, Connecticut, and requires onsite attendance for in-person work-related events, trainings, and meetings. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship and legally authorized to access controlled technology before beginning work. The role may involve potential exposure to strong magnetic fields, high voltage, and currents.

Requirements

Bachelor-level thinking demonstrated through education or relevant work experience.
Solid experience delivering technical, manufacturing, operational, engineering, or workplace learning.
Deep knowledge or demonstrated expertise in a relevant technical or manufacturing subject area.
Experience delivering complex technical training with theoretical and practical components.
Experience coaching learners or less-experienced trainers.
Experience evaluating learner performance and providing structured, constructive feedback.
Ability to understand, prepare, adapt, and independently deliver complex training materials.
Broad knowledge of business processes.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to collaborate effectively with learners, subject matter experts, business stakeholders, trainers, and learning professionals.
Must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.
Must be legally authorized to access controlled technology before beginning work.
Ability to work on-site in Wilton, Connecticut and attend in-person work-related events, trainings, and meetings.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in education, instructional design, engineering, manufacturing, a technical discipline, or a related field.
Experience delivering advanced technical training in a semiconductor, precision manufacturing, engineering, operations, or high-technology environment.
Experience delivering complex hands-on or equipment-related technical training.
Experience training senior, specialized, or business-critical learner populations.
Experience qualifying or certifying trainers and trainees.
Experience leading train-the-trainer sessions, dry runs, facilitator-readiness reviews, or trainer onboarding.
Experience developing or significantly improving instructor guides, learner materials, presentations, technical exercises, demonstrations, job aids, assessments, or qualification criteria.
Experience addressing learner resistance, performance barriers, or challenging group dynamics.
Experience facilitating in-person, virtual, practical, and on-the-job learning.
Familiarity with learning management systems, virtual classroom platforms, and common learning-content tools.

Responsibilities

Deliver complex technical training and knowledge transfer through instructor-led, virtual instructor-led, hands-on, and on-the-job learning, in collaboration with subject matter experts and business stakeholders.
Maintain comprehensive knowledge of the assigned technical subject area and deliver its complete scope, including to senior, specialized, and business-critical learner groups.
Facilitate engaging, inclusive, productive, safe, and learner-focused sessions using varied methods and adult-learning principles.
Prepare and facilitate exercises, demonstrations, practical applications, and supplemental learning materials; create or adapt job aids, reference materials, instructor resources, and performance-support tools.
Help learners transfer learning to the workplace by identifying barriers and practical ways to address them; serve as a technical learning resource during and, where applicable, after training.
Assess and qualify less-experienced trainers and participate in trainee qualification or certification where applicable; observe performance, provide actionable feedback, and determine whether required knowledge and skills have been demonstrated.
Coach less-experienced trainers in technical content, facilitation, learner engagement, classroom management, and practical-skills instruction.
Onboard and prepare trainers, co-facilitators, and subject matter experts through train-the-trainer sessions, dry runs, practice sessions, and delivery-readiness reviews.
Evaluate trainer readiness, identify preparation gaps, and support trainers and subject matter experts with complex learner questions and classroom situations.
Apply coaching and professional judgment to address learning resistance, team dynamics, learner challenges, and performance barriers.
Contribute technical and instructional expertise to the development and improvement of learning solutions; collaborate with learning designers, developers, trainers, subject matter experts, and business stakeholders.
Research and analyze training or performance needs, recommend updates, design and deliver projects or structured assignments, and update complex training materials as technical content, processes, tools, equipment, or business needs evolve.
Collect and analyze feedback and observations from classroom, virtual, practical, and on-the-job learning; recommend and monitor improvements to content, activities, exercises, delivery, assessments, processes, and tools.
Stay current with developments in the relevant technical area, manufacturing environment, instructional practices, coaching methods, and learning-delivery approaches.
Support the development, transfer, retention, and reuse of knowledge and integrate knowledge-management practices into learning delivery and improvement.
Build productive relationships with learners, qualified trainers, subject matter experts, business stakeholders, and Learning & Knowledge Management colleagues; consult stakeholders and manage expectations throughout training activities.