Training Supervisor

Eaton Corporation•El Paso, TX

6d•$97,000 - $143,000•Onsite

About The Position

Eaton’s ES AMER ARS PDCAD division is currently seeking a Training Supervisor. This position is ONSITE Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm at our El Paso, TX (Trade Center Ave) Eaton facility. The Training Supervisor is responsible for owning and improving the training system for hourly manufacturing employees. The primary focus of this role is ensuring operators are trained correctly, consistently, and to verified competency resulting in improved product quality, safety, and productivity. This role is highly hands on and visible on the shop floor. The Training Supervisor 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.
Minimum of 5 years leading manufacturing training/OJT, production readiness, or closely related operations/quality leadership training.
Demonstrated experience building training that improves measurable outcomes (quality, safety, productivity, time-to-competency, etc.)

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.
Ensure training documentation and records are accurate, complete, and audit ready (including LMS 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.