Training Operations Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead the Training Operations Team: Directly manage Training Leads and Training Specialists across multiple factory locations, developing your team's capability, setting a high bar for performance, and building a…
• Build and Maintain the Training Curriculum and Schedule: Lead the team in developing and owning a comprehensive training schedule covering all stations, new hire ramp, and recertification cycles.
• Own Training Operations: Take full ownership of Machining training program delivery and technician certification across all active factory locations, maintaining a consistently high standard of quality and consistency.
• Drive Production Readiness: Partner closely with factory Operations teams to ensure the workforce is trained, certified, and production-ready in alignment with ramp schedules and headcount growth.
• Translate Strategy to Execution: Take the standards, documentation, and systems built by Workforce Development and ensure they are understood, applied correctly, and continuously improved by your team on the floor.
• Maintain the Feedback Loop: Proactively surface gaps in training content, documentation accuracy, and evaluation standards back to Workforce Systems before they become production problems.
• Plan Ahead: Partner with the Director to forecast Training Specialist headcount needs based on factory growth, ensuring the training team is never behind production demand.
• Support Audit Readiness: Ensure training records, certification data, and program execution meet AS9100 standards and are consistently ready for internal and external audits.

Job requirements

• People leadership: proven experience managing teams across multiple locations in a fast-paced, hands-on environment. You develop people, hold a high bar, and create accountability without micromanaging.
• Operational execution: you understand what great execution looks like at the floor level. You can take a strategy and break it down into clear processes, schedules, and ownership that a team can actually run.
• Coordination and program management: you can manage multiple workstreams across sites simultaneously, keep stakeholders aligned, and close open loops without dropping them.
• Communication: you communicate clearly up, down, and across the org. You can represent training needs to factory leadership and translate operational realities back to Workforce Development.
• Ownership mentality: you take problems all the way to resolution. You do not wait to be told what to do and you do not leave things half finished.
• Adaptability: Hadrian is growing fast. The tools, capabilities, and expectations will evolve. You are energized by that, not unsettled by it.