Operations Training & Development Manager

About Schweid & Sons

Schweid & Sons is a family-owned and operated premium ground beef company with a proud heritage spanning four generations. We supply top-quality beef to Retail, Food service, and National Account customers across the U.S. and are committed to quality, customer service, and innovation in protein manufacturing.

The Operations Training & Development Manager leads the site learning system that builds organizational capability, eliminates losses caused by lack of skill or ineffective training systems, and creates a culture where every employee is both a learner and a teacher. This role owns the standard work processes, tools, governance, and coaching needed to deliver just-in-time, performance-based learning across manufacturing operations.

• Develop and manage the site learning strategy aligned to business priorities and loss-elimination goals.
• Lead skill needs assessment and prioritization processes to identify current and future capability gaps by role, team, department, and value stream.
• Translate prioritized gaps into an annual and dynamic training plan, including curriculum, audience, trainer requirements, delivery methods, calendar, resources, facilities, and success measures.
• Design and govern performance-based learning solutions such as One Point Lessons, job aids, on-the-job training, workshops, self-study, digital learning, and roll-down training.
• Build and maintain trainer and subject matter expert systems, including trainer selection, qualification, coaching, recognition, and train-the-trainer capability.
• Ensure each training program includes clear learning objectives, task or knowledge requirements, hands‑on practice, supporting materials, and a verification or qualification step.
• Own the qualification process and skill tracking system to verify that employees can demonstrate the required capability at the needed proficiency level.
• Partner with operations, quality, safety, maintenance, warehouse, engineering, and other process owners to integrate learning into daily work and eliminate skill‑related losses.
• Maintain training materials, records, learning systems, and facilities so that training is available when and where needed.
• Measure learning effectiveness using in-process and outcome measures, including training completion, qualification at target level, training system health, and reduction of losses due to lack of skill.
• Develops and maintains site skills matrix to ensure depth of knowledge throughout the organization.

• Experience leading learning, training, capability building, or continuous improvement systems in a manufacturing, supply chain, or operations environment.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct skill gap analysis, build curricula, manage training plans, and evaluate learning effectiveness.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, stakeholder management, communication, and change leadership skills.
• Ability to work across functions and influence leaders, subject matter experts, trainers, and front‑line teams without relying solely on formal authority.

• Experience with Integrated Work Systems, Total Productive Maintenance, Lean Manufacturing, or other zero‑loss continuous improvement systems.
• Experience designing train‑the‑trainer programs, skill matrices, proficiency models, and role‑based curricula.
• Familiarity with manufacturing performance measures such as safety, quality, production, cost, delivery, and morale.

• Reduction in losses linked to lack of skill, knowledge, or ineffective training systems.
• Percent of employees qualified at target proficiency levels for critical skills and roles.
• Completion and effectiveness of prioritized training plans tied to business needs.
• Improvement in training system health, standard work process maturity, and learning material availability.

• Final compensation will be discussed during the interview process.
• Bonus Program:
  This position is bonus incentive eligible.
• Time Off: PTO, Safe & Sick Time, and Paid Holidays.
• Health Benefits:
  
  Medical, vision, dental, HRA and voluntary disability benefits.
• Financial Benefits:
  
  401(k) + employer match and life…