Organizational Development and Learning Manager

AWC, Inc.•,

15h

About The Position

At AWC, Inc., we believe our competitive advantage is our people. As a 100% employee-owned company, we invest in developing talent, building leadership capability, and creating clear career paths that help our employee-owners grow and succeed. We're looking for an Organizational Development & Learning Manager who is more than a trainer; we need a builder. This role is for someone who has successfully designed, implemented, and scaled learning programs in a technical environment. Someone who has built leadership development programs, technical training pathways, onboarding frameworks, and learning systems that measurably improved performance, retention, and employee growth. If you've spent your career inheriting training programs, this may not be the role for you. If you've built them from the ground up and can demonstrate results, we'd love to talk.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Organizational Development, Education, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
8+ years of progressive Learning & Development experience.
Demonstrated success designing and implementing learning, career development, or talent management programs from concept through adoption, including stakeholder alignment, leadership support, change management, and measurable business results, in technical, industrial, manufacturing, engineering, automation, or similarly complex environments.
Experience creating technical training programs, certification pathways, or workforce development initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to improve measurable outcomes such as employee retention, internal promotion rates, key role bench strength, onboarding effectiveness, technical proficiency, or employee engagement.
Experience leading leadership development and manager training programs.
Strong project management and change management capabilities.

Nice To Haves

Experience in industrial distribution, manufacturing, automotive, engineering services, automation, energy, or technical field services.
LMS administration and learning technology experience.
Experience supporting rapid growth organizations.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute a company-wide learning and development roadmap aligned with business objectives and in support of our customers' journey.
Create scalable programs that support employee growth from onboarding through leadership succession.
Establish learning metrics and KPIs that demonstrate business impact.
Build structured technical learning paths for sales, engineering, operations, manufacturing, service, and support roles.
Partner with subject matter experts to capture and institutionalize technical knowledge.
Create certification programs, skills matrices, and proficiency frameworks.
Design and facilitate leadership development programs for frontline leaders, managers, and future leaders.
Equip managers with coaching, performance management, and employee development tools.
Redesign onboarding programs that accelerate employee effectiveness and engagement.
Establish role-based onboarding pathways and learning milestones.
Reduce time-to-productivity through structured learning experiences.
Lead administration and optimization of learning technologies, including LMS platforms.
Curate, develop, and maintain learning content using internal and external resources.
Leverage AI and digital learning tools to improve accessibility and engagement.
Define success metrics and regularly report outcomes to leadership.
Track program effectiveness, learner engagement, skill attainment, promotion rates, retention, and business impact.
Continuously improve programs using feedback and data.