Education & Training Leader

Your Opportunity as the Education and Training Leader

The primary function of this role is to lead and execute Education & Training (E&T) standards across the site. This includes owning and maintaining training materials, managing the skills qualification process, and ensuring training documentation systems remain accurate and compliant. The role is accountable for E&T performance by maintaining the site skills matrix, analyzing and reporting monthly training results, and developing and coaching site E&T functional leaders to drive capability and organizational growth.

Location: McCalla, AL

Work Arrangements: Monday–Friday with flexibility to support operations during occasional evenings, nights, or weekends, based on operational and business needs.

In this role you will:

Own E&T scorecard and monthly Results

Owns and maintains E&T skills matrix

Assess needs to achieve zero loss due to training outages

Point of contact with corporate for all company E&T initiatives

Identify E&T standardization, consistency, and implement best practices

Act as leadership team’s liaison to the teams E&T outages & wins

Work with operations leaders to identify loss due to lack of training

Coach and develop E&T Functional Leaders

Facilitate E&T skill building and meetings on regular cadence

Facilitate all step up card revisions, getting approval from Operations, Technical Team, Equipment Owners

Own, record, and manage Step-up card and qualification process

Own and facilitate all computer qualification testing and training

Owns master copies of all operator manuals, working closely with EO’s to keep material up to date

Maintains the Document control system for site

Maintain personnel training records and reports

Manage training files in Workday Learning Module

Support the Development/Execution of training materials for the site

Administer Mechanical Aptitude Test

Support and model Operational Excellence work system behaviors

Preserve Smucker culture

Workday Learning Partner

Utilize team members to successfully drive high-performance work culture with a focus on understanding, prioritizing, eliminating losses, and building and executing effective short- and long-term plans

Effectively communicate expectations, provides timely feedback, and manages performance of team

Develop team members to successfully perform current and future roles

What we are looking for:

Minimum Requirements:

A bachelor’s degree is required or 5 years of experience building and leading education and training systems in a manufacturing environment.

Minimum of 2 years of manufacturing operational experience or food manufacturing preferred

Minimum of 2 years of experience leading, supervising, or managing others preferred

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:

Ability to work under limited supervision while managing multiple priorities and projects

Strong Organizational skills

Experience facilitating meetings and presentation skills

Demonstrates strong computer skills Microsoft word, Excel, Power Point, etc.

Ability to lead team to execute plans and achieve results

Can lead, coach, and develop others

Strong leadership skills

Project management skills

Problem solving skills

Strong inter-personal skills

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Willingness to work a flexible schedule that most effectively supports the organization

Ability to work off-shifts or weekends as needed

The Right Place for You

We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs , and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.

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We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.