The Manufacturing Skills Manager is responsible for efficient and effective training of manufacturing skills for the assigned business unit. In this role you will work closely with operations, the quality leads, auditing, root cause analysis and corrective actions and the skills trainers in the assigned business unit to deliver ongoing learning needs analysis, design, development, assessment, implementation, and evaluation of training to ensure alignment with business strategy across the organization.

• Provide direct supervision of the manufacturing skills and performance training team for the assigned business unit
• Have substantial knowledge in ISO 9001: 2015 QMS and ability to conduct first-party, second-party, and third-party audits
• Have effective and efficient maintenance of quality management system (QMS) according to the needs and requirements of the organization and ability to match our QMS to support all the training requirements
• Monitor and analyze performance metrics following the ADDIE model of instructional design to improve performance
• Design, develop, implement, and evaluate training programs to ensure performance improvement
• Coordinate and schedule training programs in conjunction with the trainers and operations
• Support training within industries structures on the job training (TWI SOJT) programs
• Ensure federal and state grant programs are implemented in compliance with grant contracts
• Perform continuous improvement projects in skill and knowledge requirements for employees
• Perform lean engineering practices and show employees ways to adopt the methodology
• Coordinate with engineering, operations, and manufacturing to improve job skills knowledge
• Review external training requests and provide consultation on content and cost to benefit
• Monitor training metrics and feedback loops to evaluate and measure and share the effectiveness of the program, fully understand the results of the training program, and identify areas for improvements
• Perform root cause and corrective and preventive action analysis as needed

Minimum Requirements

• 4-year bachelor's degree
• 5 years' experience in manufacturing environment
• 3 years' experience in a training role

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced ability with Microsoft suite