What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Trainer - Night Shift position at Zoltek-Toray Group?
Job Description
Title: Associate Trainer – Production Operators
Reports to: Quality Control Manager
Location: St. Peters, MO
Date Posted: 1/17/25
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assist in the design, development, and delivery of instructional material for Operator Instructional Sheets (OIS) operator training, new or modified technical training courses.
- Participates in Operator New Hire Orientation and explains the manufacturing process as well training requirements.
- Introduces all new Operators to the areas they will be working and their mentors and explains all safety protocol and PPE requirements.
- Performs competency testing (evaluations) for career moves in pay grade.
- Demonstrates and utilizes effective needs analysis, project management, course development, and evaluation skills.
- Can independently develop entry and advanced level courses.
- Able to utilize multimedia technology and authoring tools
- Collaborates with production management, manufacturing engineering, process engineers.
- Assists in development of training content - handouts, outlines, agendas and syllabi.
- Tailors training content based on trainee's specific needs.
- Contributes to team planning for both training and development schedules.
- Delivers Training Programs / Modules based on training plan requirements.
- Incorporates motivating, creative, and interactive training techniques to enhance the training experience, in an effort to maximize learning and retention.
- Ensures new training methodologies incorporated into training approach.
- Additional duties assigned as necessary.
Qualifications:
- Technical degree in related field desired
- Manufacturing production floor training experience in a related area to the position with strong performance results preferred
- Prior experience developing and maintaining training programs
- Knowledge and understanding of continuous flow manufacturing processes
- Strong computer skills
- Excellent Presentation skills
- Outgoing personality
- Great communication, collaboration, and flexibility to work with internal groups and external customers
- Self-starting, motivated, hardworking, and needs to be very flexible
Zoltek is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.