Training Manager

Ownership of Hourly Production Training (Primary Focus)

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

Competency Verification and Quality Alignment

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.

Trainer Effectiveness and Accountability

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.

Training System and Governance

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.

Team Leadership and Function Growth

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.

What Success Looks Like:

• Hourly employees reach full competency faster, with fewer quality issues tied to training gaps.
• Training is consistent, documented, audit ready, and enforced across all shifts and value streams.
• Trainers are capable, coached, and accountable for the effectiveness of the training they deliver.
• Training metrics are visible, trusted, and used by leadership to make decisions-not maintained only for compliance.
• The training function demonstrates a digital mindset, using technology as a practical tool (not technology for technology's sake).
• Processes that were previously manual, tribal, or inconsistent are migrating toward standardized, repeatable, and scalable.
• The training organization is viewed as a business enabler for quality and readiness, not a scheduling or administrative function.

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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).

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Client-provided location(s): Long Branch, TX

Job ID: Eaton-61780Nacogdoches

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-04-08T18:56:59