Training Manager

Eaton Corporation • Nacogdoches, TX

9d • $97,000 - $143,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Eaton’s ES AMER ESS division is currently seeking a Training Manager. This role is located at our Nacoggdoches, TX site. Relocation assistance will be provided. The expected annual salary range for this role is $97000 - $143000 a year. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations. What you’ll do:
The Training Manager is responsible for owning and improving the training system for hourly manufacturing employees at the Nacogdoches facility. The primary focus of this role is ensuring operators are trained correctly, consistently, and to verify competency resulting in improved product quality, safety, and productivity.
This role is highly hands‑on and visible on the shop floor. The Training Manager partners closely with Operations and Quality to identify training gaps, strengthen on‑the‑job training, improve trainer effectiveness, and enforce training standards. While the long‑term vision includes broader professional and leadership development, success in this role begins with stabilizing and elevating hourly production training.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution
• Two (2) years of demonstrated experience building training that improves measurable outcomes (quality, safety, productivity, time-to-competency, etc.)
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.
• Relocation assistance will be provided to candidates that reside outside a 50-mile radius of Nacogdoches, TX.

Nice To Haves

• Background in electrical components, utilities, or similar regulated/quality-critical manufacturing.
• Experience creating/owning training assessments and skill verification.
• Working knowledge of LMS/QMS documentation expectations and maintaining skill matrices.
• Instructional design capability (job instruction, task breakdowns, facilitator guides) and comfort using modern tools (video, eLearning).

Responsibilities

• Own end‑to-end hourly production training, including onboarding, OJT, cross‑training, certification, and refresher training.
• Establish clear training expectations for each core production role, including defined training paths, timelines, and competency requirements.
• Ensure training is consistent across shifts, value streams, and trainers
• Implement and enforce competency verification (demonstration, assessments, observation) not just training completion.
• Maintain full authority to delay or stop certification when competency standards are not met.
• Use quality, scrap, rework, audit, and defect data to identify training gaps and drive corrective actions.
• Partner with Quality and Operations to ensure training reflects current work instructions and critical quality requirements.
• Establish and maintain a train‑the‑trainer process, including trainer selection, expectations, coaching, and feedback.
• Regularly observe trainers and training delivery to ensure consistency and effectiveness.
• Hold trainers and coordinators accountable for quality of training not just scheduling and documentation.
• Ensure training documentation and records are accurate, complete, and audit‑ready (including LMS / Q‑Pulse and skill matrices).
• Develop and track meaningful training metrics (time‑to‑competency, certification accuracy, retraining needs, audit findings).
• Escalate systemic issues and provide clear recommendations to leadership.
• Evaluate and pilot modern training methods (simulation, video, eLearning) where they directly improve speed, consistency, and quality.
• Provide day‑to‑day leadership, coaching, and direction to hourly training coordinators.
• Assess current training resources and recommend future structure, roles, and capabilities as the plant grows.
• Act as the site expert on what the training function needs to support business demands.
• Build relationships with external schools/community partners to strengthen the hiring/training pipeline.

Benefits

• Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager