McWane Ductile Ohio - Trainer

McWane, Inc.•Coshocton, OH

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Trainer supports development of a safe, capable, and engaged workforce by designing, developing, delivering, coordinating, and evaluating learning across the employee lifecycle. The role facilitates new-hire orientation and onboarding, required safety and compliance training, job- and skill-based development, corporate initiatives, and leadership development. Under the direction of the Workforce Development Manager and in partnership with functional workgroups and subject matter experts, the Trainer translates organizational needs, technical requirements, and workforce-development initiatives into practical, engaging learning experiences that meet varied employee learning needs and support effective application within the facility. This is a full-time position of at least 40 hours per week and is performed on-site. The role requires following Company safety, environmental, housekeeping, and plant policies and procedures. Specific certifications may be required based on assigned training responsibilities; applicable facilitator, safety, or technical credentials must be obtained and maintained within established Company timelines.

Requirements

At least two years of experience in employee training, instructional design, onboarding, or workforce development is preferred.
Strong facilitation, presentation, written communication, organization, and interpersonal skills, including the ability to engage employees with varied experience and learning needs.
Working knowledge of instructional design, adult-learning principles, learning objectives, assessment methods, and blended-learning approaches.
Ability to assess learning needs and translate technical, operational, safety, or policy-based information into clear, practical learning experiences.
Ability to build effective working relationships with employees, departmental trainers, subject matter experts, supervisors, and cross-functional partners.
Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and learning technologies, ability to learn Company systems, and ability to handle sensitive employee and training information appropriately.
Must be able to perform the essential duties satisfactorily, with reasonable accommodations where applicable.
Must obtain and maintain required facilitator, safety, or technical credentials within established Company timelines when applicable.

Nice To Haves

Associate or bachelor’s degree in education, instructional design, training and development, human resources, organizational development, or a related field; an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.
Experience with learning management systems, adult-learning principles, and developing instructor-led, digital, or blended learning.
Manufacturing, industrial, safety, compliance, or job-specific training experience.

Responsibilities

Support new-hire learning from orientation through early job integration, including explaining the McWane Way, safety expectations, resources, plant operations, employees’ roles, and how their work contributes to the organization.
Apply instructional-design and adult-learning principles to design, develop, revise, and improve instructor-led, digital, blended, and hands-on learning experiences.
Partner with functional leaders and subject matter experts to identify learning needs, define objectives, organize technical content, and translate policies, procedures, standards, and job knowledge into practical training materials.
Develop and maintain facilitator guides, participant materials, presentations, job aids, knowledge checks, assessments, digital learning modules, videos, and practical qualification tools.
Deliver, coordinate, and track assigned compliance, leadership, and workforce-development training on required schedules, adapting delivery to varied experience levels and learning needs.
Train, develop, and support designated departmental trainers in delivering job-specific training and qualification using approved safety and operating requirements, JSTs, JSAs, work instructions, and learning materials; reinforce demonstration, guided practice, knowledge checks, and verification of understanding.
Support use of the Company learning management system, including course setup, assignments, enrollments, completion tracking, reporting, content maintenance, and basic learner support in coordination with the LMS administrator.
Monitor training, certification, and qualification status for completion, expiration, retraining, cross-training, and job-movement needs; support training-matrix maintenance and provide appropriate documentation for updates to Company systems.
Evaluate learning effectiveness using feedback, knowledge checks, observed application, qualification results, completion data, and input from supervisors and subject matter experts; recommend improvements.
Build productive relationships across the plant, follow up with employees and leaders to reinforce learning, and inform the direct manager and appropriate functional leaders of significant training issues or improvement opportunities.
Follow Company safety, environmental, housekeeping, and plant policies and procedures.
Obtain and maintain required facilitator, safety, or technical credentials within established Company timelines when applicable.