Maintenance Training Manager
Job Summary
The Maintenance Training Manager plays a critical role in building technical capability on the shop floor by developing practical, high-quality technical training materials and delivering hands-on maintenance training and coaching. This role ensures that maintenance knowledge (including machine specific knowledge), skills, and standards are effectively transferred and sustained through structured training aligned with the Education & Training (T&E) Pillar methodology across mechanical, electrical and control assets.
Essential Functions
Develop, update, and maintain maintenance training materials using instructional design and adult learning principles to engage maintenance technicians and maximize knowledge retention.
Coach and support technicians to build mechanical, electrical and controls capabilities per job requirements across all shifts.
Create and organize a digital library of training materials including technical manuals, reference guides, Job Breakdown Sheets (JBS), Troubleshooting guides, One-Point Lessons (OPLs), Simulators, Presentations and instructional videos.
Plan and deliver hands-on maintenance training on equipment, training modules, and in production areas, ensuring safety and standard work adherence.
Create and deliver onboarding training content for maintenance employees.
Develop and coach a team of maintenance assessors to train, recruit and evaluate new employees as part of the train-the-trainer program.
Develop and maintain maintenance skill matrices, competency checklists, assessments, and job breakdowns to validate technician proficiency through hands-on evaluations and standardized criteria.
Identify maintenance skill gaps related to operational losses and support competency gap reduction initiatives through targeted training solutions.
Apply Instructional Design industry knowledge, new learning tools, and trends to internal practices.
Manage current training databases such as Poka, Alchemy and SharePoint. Support maintenance department in capturing videos for breakdown analysis and troubleshooting.
Assist with campaigns from industrial performance, serving as the content creator for LPW teams.
Participate in the Training & Education Pillar and Planned Maintenance Pillar to ensure operational, supervisory and managerial training activities throughout the plant contribute to driving out losses.
Collaborate with leadership team to analyze the learning needs of the target audience and the organization's goals to determine what knowledge and skills need to be developed.
Evaluate the effectiveness of learning materials and programs, gathering feedback and making revisions to improve learning outcomes.
Minimum Education And Experience Required
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field or 5+ years’ experience in industrial maintenance within a manufacturing environment.
5+ years’ hand-on experience in maintenance department.
2+ years’ experience in training, developing instructional materials and in a manufacturing environment.
Proven experience delivering technical training to adult learners.
Ability to translate complex maintenance concepts into clear, trainable standards.
Ability to work directly on the shop floor in a training and coaching capacity.
Ability to work independently and execute training projects in changing environments and work processes.
Experience using structured training tools such as Job Breakdown Sheet, competency checklists, and skill matrix preferred.
Familiarity with graphic design programs.
Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams).
Soft Skills
Adaptability
Problem solving
Time management
Persuasion
Conflict resolution
Organization
Attention to detail
Decision making
Other Job Requirements
Required to regularly sit at a workstation.
Required to regularly stand or walk.
Occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
This position must be able to concentrate for extended periods of time paying close attention to detail.
Potential for very warm or very cold working environment/depending on area of assignment.
Interfacing with various manufacturing equipment and office computer equipment.
Flexibility around work hours to interact with key employees on all shifts (24-hour facility).
Pay
$117K to $153K / year