About The Position

The ideal candidate works onsite in Beaverton within Nike’s Air Manufacturing Innovation environment, leading an eight-person technical training team. They report to the Sr. Global Manager of Technical Training & Development and partner with Operations leaders to build workforce capability and close skill gaps. The ideal candidate has experience leading technical training in a 24x7 lean manufacturing environment, with a strong record of building practical learning systems that improve capability, quality, and performance. They are a respected people leader who provides clear direction, coaches effectively, and partners well with Operations to close workforce skill gaps. They bring curiosity, a growth mindset, and a bias for simplifying work—using Lean thinking, industry best practices, and AI-enabled tools to make training efficient and effective.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, experience, and training
  • Minimum 3 years of related experience
  • Respected people leader who gives clear direction, communicates well, and supports a 24x7 training team.
  • Experience planning training schedules, shift coverage, and qualification plans for production ramps and launches.
  • Strong compliance focus across safety, equipment certifications, training requirements, and standard work.
  • Lean manufacturing experience and a strong network for best-practice learning and problem-solving.
  • Curiosity for innovation, including using AI to simplify work and improve how training content is developed and deployed.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical training activation for Air MI by developing trainers, aligning coverage to production demand, and ensuring consistent delivery of Nike/AMS standard work.
  • Use Lean thinking and AI-enabled tools to simplify content, improve deployment, and strengthen OJT quality.
  • Lead and coach a technical training team with clear direction, feedback, and support across a 24x7 environment.
  • Align trainer coverage, schedules, and qualification plans to support ramps, launches, and changing business needs.
  • Ensure consistent delivery of Nike/AMS standard work through classroom and OJT audits, evaluations, and coaching.
  • Drive compliance with safety expectations, equipment certifications, and training completion requirements.
  • Partner with Operations leaders to identify skill gaps and build practical learning solutions that improve performance.
  • Improve curricula and training practices using Lean thinking, AI-enabled simplification, and industry best practices.
  • Track outcomes such as engagement, attendance, attrition, training completion, OEE, safety, efficiency, PPLH, and labor variance to improve training impact.
  • Identify and scale lean best practices across Air MI.

Benefits

  • Screen readers
  • Sign language interpreters
  • Accessible and single location for in-person interviews
  • Closed captioning
  • Other reasonable modifications as needed
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