Senior Director, Technical Training

About The Role

The Technical Training Senior Director will lead the design, planning and implementation of an organization-wide strategic technical training program. A significant component of this role will be to build a comprehensive structured on-the-job training program that can be effectively and repeatably deployed to departmental leaders and trainers. This position interfaces with senior leaders and cross-functional business process owners and secures resources necessary to create and execute an effective training strategy.

They act as a team lead and mentor for training colleagues to help orient, develop and grow talent. They may serve as the sponsor for special/innovative/complex projects and act as an enterprise leader.

They lead a team of training professionals primarily responsible for executing a standardized approach to training across the fleet of operations enabling new hires to learn the business from end to end. Create and execute the strategy for technical training for employees in Waste to Energy, Transfer Stations, Environmental Solutions and Profiled Waste. Prepare the curriculum for new entry-level employees, starting with Safety, that enables them to understand how their role interacts with other roles and contributes to the sustainable impact that Covanta has on the environment.

Additionally, this role creates the training approach that enables the current workforce to attain the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to advance their career. This role is a key enabler to transform training and knowledge management for all operations employees.

• Provide organizational support for curricula development that is role and activity based. Develop site training capabilities using a train-the-trainer approach.
• Monitor learning maturity and ensure continuous improvement for training systems and programs. Responsible for working with enterprise resources to align approach and systems as well as to enable just-in-time or real time instructional training using innovative technologies.
• Lead a team of colleagues with responsibility for training and knowledge management.
• Serve as the business process owner for all technical training including technician level qualification related training for operations and maintenance technicians.
• Maintain training infrastructure that allows for safe and standardized role-based training that is compliant with applicable regulations (e.g., ASME, QRO State operator certification requirements, and any local licensing requirements).
• Develop innovative, immersive, simulative training methodologies enabling accelerated knowledge transfer and transferable skill building.
• Ensure learning objectives are tied to business outcomes with clear measurement criteria and methodologies.
• Work cross-functionally with enterprise level and site training leads that have responsibility for training and ensure consistent application of training methodology, process, systems and tools.
• Develop material and training for plant employees.
• Perform data analysis and gather information for new training; prepare and maintain training materials and coordinate the development of new training materials and training aids.
• Coordinate training content with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
• Analyze current operating problems and future operating requirements to identify training needs and develop training programs.
• Actively interface with responsible groups in support of regulatory training, reporting, and inspections as needed.
• Work with the QA team to translate policies and procedures into appropriate training materials.
• Ensure strong connections between subject matter experts and training leads to enable consistent and compliant technical training delivery.
• Demonstrate expertise in multiple knowledge areas, maintain a wide breadth of knowledge, and stay up to date on current industry trends.
• Create standard work for the following training:
  Safety, Environmental, technical and procedural training on equipment, business conditions, regulatory and updated processes/procedures.
• Manage the GPiLEARN+ Training Program to include the associated Learning Management System (LMS) for the…