Shape skills. Elevate performance. Build a safer, smarter plant.
As a Plant Operations Learning & Development Specialist at BAC, you turn experience into capability. You report into Human Resources for training program direction and work shoulder-to-shoulder with Team Leaders, Shift Leaders, supervisors, and plant leadership to translate shop-floor know‑how into consistent, high-quality performance. You’re the subject matter expert and coach who embodies BAC’s values—Earning Trust, Embracing Responsibility, Showing Courage, and Driving Innovation—while helping every learner “do the right thing in the right way.”
A day in the role
You start your morning welcoming new hires, setting expectations, and introducing safety, quality, and standard work. Midday, you’re on the floor—demonstrating techniques, using the Why–What–How model to anchor understanding, and coaching side‑by‑side until confidence and consistency take hold. In the afternoon, you update skills matrices, validate certifications, refine SOP visuals, and align with HR, Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Safety so that training mirrors current equipment, processes, and requirements. Before you wrap, you prep the Shop Floor Training Center for the next session and present a quick technical highlight at a Toolbox meeting.
What you’ll own
- Onboarding & cross‑training: Lead orientation, refresher, and technical upskilling for plant employees.
- Curriculum & tools: Build and maintain visual work instructions, SOPs, presentations, job aids, and hands‑on activities.
- Capability validation: Assess proficiency, spot gaps, confirm completed training, and document certifications and skill growth.
- Skills matrices & plans: Keep departmental matrices current and co‑create individual and team training plans with HR and leadership.
- Hands‑on coaching: Work alongside learners to develop proficiency, confidence, consistency, and independence.
- Training records & metrics: Maintain accurate records and provide updates on training status, skill development, certifications, and other training KPIs.
- Cross‑functional alignment: Partner with HR, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Safety, and plant leaders to ensure training reflects the latest equipment, processes, quality requirements, and standard work.
- Training Center stewardship: Prepare materials and workstations, facilitate activities, and return the area to ready status.
- Learning environment: Foster engagement through active listening, clear communication, encouragement, positive reinforcement, constructive feedback, and diligent follow‑up.
- Adult learning delivery: Teach with proven methods, including the Why–What–How approach, to drive retention and application.
- Trainer growth: Participate in trainer meetings, train‑the‑trainer, and facilitator development led by HR.
- Safety, quality & productivity: Model and reinforce best practices in every session.
- Employee communications: Present technical, developmental, safety, or informational topics in Toolbox and other plant meetings.
- Performance context: Help employees understand how their skills impact department and plant objectives.
- Knowledge capture: Document processes, standard work, technical insights, and best practices for consistency and retention.
- Continuous improvement: Enhance training content, delivery methods, processes, and tools; share lessons learned across departments.
How you’ll partner
Guided by HR’s training standards, documentation expectations, facilitator development, and program processes, you collaborate with operations and department leaders for technical and operational priorities. You may contribute your SME perspective to cross‑functional, plant, or regional initiatives. This is a non‑supervisory role—your influence comes from coaching, credibility, and a relentless focus on employee development, knowledge transfer, and consistent application of BAC safety, quality, productivity, and performance standards.
What you bring
- 2–5 years in manufacturing, production, maintenance, or industrial settings; prior mentoring, coaching, training, or team leading strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated subject‑matter expertise in your department, process, or technical discipline.
- Ability to read/interpret blueprints, schematics, standard work instructions, SOPs, and equipment documentation.
- Proven facilitation in classroom and shop‑floor environments.
- Clear written, verbal, and presentation skills; tailor complex technical content to the learner’s level.
- Coaching strengths: patient listening, probing questions, timely and constructive feedback.
- Organized training execution: plan, deliver, document, and follow up methodically.
- Performance assessment: observe work, evaluate proficiency, identify gaps, and prescribe targeted coaching or training.
- Learner‑centric approach with flexibility in methods, pacing, and delivery.
- Commitment to safety, quality, and adherence to plant standards and procedures.
- Working knowledge of BAC products, models, parts, equipment, processes, and practices.
- Technology fluency: Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint; electronic recordkeeping and Learning Management Systems (LMS).
- Continuous improvement mindset and a passion for knowledge sharing.
- Ongoing professional learning in technical subjects, adult‑learning, and facilitation.
- Adaptability to shifting production priorities, processes, schedules, and learner needs.
- Technical communication that breaks complex steps into clear, teachable actions.
- Accurate, timely, organized, and confidential training documentation.
Work environment & schedule
- Lift and handle materials up to 30 pounds.
- Stand for approximately 80% of the workday.
- Walk, reach, bend, stoop, and sit as duties require.
- Use fine hand manipulation and hand–eye coordination to operate equipment, controls, tools, and training materials.
- Work in a manufacturing environment with temperature fluctuations, including exposure to ambient outdoor temperatures as applicable.
- Support training across any of the plant’s three shifts based on training and operational needs.
- Approximately 40 hours per week; weekends or overtime as business and training needs require.
Accessibility
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Core proficiencies
- Manufacturing Experience
- Manufacturing Trainer
- Technical Training Experience