Lead Front Line Leadership Training Facilitator B2B

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Lead Front-Line Leadership Training Facilitator to deliver practical, performance-based leadership development for foremen, front-line supervisors, and emerging field leaders across construction sites, project types, and operational roles.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver practical, applied leadership training for foremen, front-line supervisors, and emerging field leaders across construction sites, project types, and self-perform operations.
• Facilitate leadership development focused on communication, safety leadership, Human Performance, planning, crew coordination, quality, productivity, cost awareness, customer focus, coaching, accountability, and decision making.
• Lead realistic jobsite scenarios, leadership role plays, crew huddle simulations, planning challenges, difficult-conversation labs, case analysis, and peer coaching activities.
• Translate organizational leadership expectations, field processes, and operational priorities into clear, practical learning experiences that participants can immediately apply on the job.
• Model effective facilitation and leadership behaviors before requiring participants to practice and demonstrate those behaviors.
• Evaluate participant performance using standardized observation rubrics and observable leadership competencies.
• Provide direct, specific, and constructive performance feedback that helps participants strengthen leadership judgment, communication, planning, and coaching skills.
• Create a psychologically safe but performance-focused learning environment in which experienced field leaders can practice, receive feedback, reflect, and improve.
• Coach participants through realistic situations involving schedule pressure, changing conditions, crew performance, safety risk, quality concerns, customer expectations, and competing operational priorities.
• Reinforce Human Performance principles, Stop Work leadership, questioning attitude, active listening, peer engagement, clear expectations, and appropriate escalation.
• Collaborate with construction, safety, quality, operations, workforce development, and organizational leaders to maintain alignment with current field expectations and business priorities.
• Support facilitator calibration, train-the-trainer activities, and continuous improvement of scenarios, activities, observation tools, and leadership development materials.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 7–10 years of progressive experience in leadership development, construction operations, field supervision, workforce training, organizational development, or a closely related environment.
• Demonstrated experience training, facilitating, coaching, or developing front-line leaders, supervisors, foremen, or experienced skilled-trades professionals.
• Strong understanding of the transition from individual craft or technical contributor to front-line leader and the challenges associated with leading former peers and experienced crews.
• Demonstrated expertise in adult learning and applied facilitation methods, including scenario-based learning, role play, simulation, case analysis, peer coaching, guided reflection, and performance feedback.
• Ability to facilitate practical leadership development related to communication, accountability, active listening, trust, leadership presence, difficult conversations, conflict, recognition, and employee resistance.
• Working knowledge of front-line planning and operational leadership, including crew coordination, workforce capability, material and equipment readiness, changing conditions, productivity expectations, and escalation.
• Ability to facilitate safety leadership and Human Performance discussions in a way that reinforces leadership behavior, risk recognition, Stop Work responsibility, and proactive field engagement.
• Demonstrated ability to connect front-line leadership decisions to quality, rework, productivity, cost, schedule, customer expectations, and business outcomes.
• Experience evaluating observable participant performance and providing structured, competency-based developmental feedback.
• Strong executive presence, communication, and group facilitation skills with the ability to establish credibility with experienced field and construction audiences.
• Ability to adapt facilitation across different construction environments, project types, craft disciplines, and participant experience levels while maintaining a consistent leadership competency standard.
• Ability and willingness to travel to project sites and training locations as required.

Preferred Credentials And Experience

• Prior experience as a construction superintendent, general foreman, foreman, field operations leader, workforce development leader, leadership development professional, or senior technical trainer.
• Direct experience in commercial construction, industrial construction, infrastructure, self-perform operations, advanced manufacturing, mission-critical construction, or similarly complex project environments.
• Formal education or professional development in adult learning, organizational leadership, construction management, workforce development, human resources, education, or a related discipline.
• Train-the-trainer certification or significant experience qualifying and coaching other facilitators.
• Experience with Human Performance, operational excellence, Lean construction, continuous improvement, or high-reliability leadership practices.
• Experience facilitating supervisor academies, emerging-leader programs, field leadership development, or frontline manager training.
• Familiarity with safety leadership, daily planning, crew huddles, field audits, incident and near-miss communication, quality awareness, and productivity practices.
• Experience using structured observation rubrics, competency frameworks, behavioral assessments, or performance-based evaluation tools.
• Coaching, conflict resolution, Crucial Conversations, DiSC, Situational Leadership, or comparable leadership facilitation credentials or experience.
• NCCER instructor certification, apprenticeship instructor experience, craft training experience, or equivalent technical workforce education background.
• Experience supporting enterprise-wide or multi-site leadership development programs.