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Eaton's ES AMER ARS PDCAD division is currently seeking a Training Supervisor. Relocation assistance will be provided for any candidate residing outside a 50-mile radius of Greenwood, SC!

The expected annual salary range for this role is $97000 - $143000 a year. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program.

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 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.
In this function you will:
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, OPEX, 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

Training System and Governance
• 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.

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.

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum 4 years experience leading manufacturing training/OJT, production readiness, or closely related operations/quality leadership in a plant environment
• 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.

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).

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.

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About Eaton

Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to improving the quality of life and protecting the environment for people everywhere.

Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Engineering

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