Trainer - 1st Shift

The Plant Trainer is a supplemental role responsible for supporting the development of plant employees through effective onboarding, technical training, coaching, and skills development. The Plant Trainer reports to Human Resources for training-related responsibilities and partners closely with plant and department leadership to facilitate the effective transfer of shop-floor knowledge and skills. As a recognized Subject Matter Expert (SME), the Plant Trainer serves as a coach, facilitator, and positive influence in the development of employees and teams.

The Trainer demonstrates BAC’s values of Earning Trust, Embracing Responsibility, Showing Courage, and Driving Innovation while promoting safe, consistent, high-quality, and effective work practices. The Plant Trainer delivers planned training and identifies informal opportunities to share knowledge, skills, and best practices with coworkers. The Trainer also demonstrates a commitment to continuous learning by strengthening their own technical and instructional capabilities and sharing new knowledge throughout the organization.

The purpose of every position at BAC, regardless of department or level, can be summarized as doing the right thing in the right way.

• Onboarding & Training: Conduct new hire orientation and training and provide ongoing technical, refresher, and cross-training for plant employees.
• Training Development: Develop and maintain effective training materials, including visual work instructions, standard operating procedures (SOPs), presentations, job aids, and hands-on learning activities.
• Skills Assessment: Assess employee proficiency, identify skill gaps, validate completed training, and accurately document certifications and skill development.
• Skills Matrices & Training Plans: Maintain departmental skills matrices and partner with Human Resources and department leadership to develop and update individual and departmental training plans.
• Hands-On
  
  Coaching:
  
  Work side-by-side with learners to build proficiency, confidence, consistency, and independence in performing assigned work.
• Training Records & Metrics: Maintain accurate training records and provide timely updates on training status, skill development, certifications, and other assigned training metrics.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Human Resources, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Safety, and plant leadership to ensure training reflects current equipment, processes, quality requirements, and standard work.
• Training Center Support: Support employee and contractor training in the Shop Floor Training Center, including preparing materials and workstations, facilitating training activities, and returning the area to ready status after use.
• Learning Environment: Create an engaging and supportive learning environment through active listening, clear communication, encouragement, positive reinforcement, constructive feedback, and consistent follow-up.
• Training Delivery: Deliver technical content using effective adult-learning practices, including the Why, What, How model, to reinforce understanding and practical application.
• Trainer Development: Participate in trainer meetings, train-the-trainer programs, and facilitator development activities coordinated by Human Resources.
• Safety, Quality & Productivity: Model and reinforce safe, high-quality, and productive work practices throughout all training activities.
• Employee Communication: Participate in Toolbox and other plant meetings by presenting technical, developmental, safety, or informational topics as assigned.
• Performance Awareness: Understand relevant departmental metrics and help employees understand how their skills and performance contribute to department and plant objectives.
• Knowledge Capture: Document processes, standard work, technical knowledge, and best practices to support knowledge retention, consistency, and employee development.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve training content, delivery methods, processes, and tools, and share lessons learned and best practices across departments.

The Plant Trainer reports to Human Resources for responsibilities associated with the Trainer role and works in close partnership with Team Leaders, Shift Leaders, supervisors, and other plant leadership. The Trainer provides hands-on instruction, coaching, and mentoring to employees and other assigned learners. Human Resources provides overall direction for the plant training program,…