Training & Engagement Manager

Job Family: Electrical Products

Req : 523481

Transform the Everyday With Us

At Siemens, we are building a new manufacturing facility in Pendergrass, Georgia, and creating the workforce, culture, and capabilities needed to support long-term growth. The facility will manufacture busplugs and busway systems for our Smart Infrastructure business.

We are seeking a Training and Engagement Manager to build and lead the site’s Training & Qualification function from the ground up. You will create the strategy, curriculum, processes, systems, and trainer organization needed to support a rapidly growing hourly manufacturing workforce.

This on-site role reports to the Plant Manager and partners with site leadership, Operations, EHS, P&O, and technical experts. You will develop onboarding and technical training that supports workforce readiness while helping shape employee engagement, communications, and culture initiatives across the site.

• Building and leading the site’s Training & Qualification function in alignment with business objectives and plant readiness.
• Designing scalable new-hire orientation, onboarding, and technical training for hourly employees.
• Developing practical curriculum and delivery standards operations.
• Partnering with EHS to integrate appropriate safety content into onboarding while EHS retains responsibility for specialized safety training.
• Evaluating and adapting relevant practices from established Siemens operations to meet Pendergrass business and workforce needs.
• Defining the trainer staffing model and hiring, developing, and leading trainers as business demand grows.
• Measuring training effectiveness and improving employee readiness, consistency, quality, safety, and performance.
• Supporting employee-engagement programs, surveys, communications, feedback activities, and employee-led culture initiatives.
• Prioritizing high-impact initiatives, simplifying complex information, and leading work from concept through implementation.

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 5 to 10 years of leadership experience in a high-growth manufacturing or education environment.
• Experience as either a manufacturing training leader responsible for workforce training or an education leader with teaching and curriculum development experience.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer-sponsored work authorization.

• Master’s degree in education, instructional design, organizational development, business, engineering, operations, or a related field.
• Experience with the following:
• Building a training function, curriculum, or team from the ground up.
• Using software systems to create, organize, deliver, or manage training content and processes.
• Working in a greenfield, startup, expansion, or transformation environment.
• Designing onboarding and technical training for hourly manufacturing employees.
• Hiring, developing, and leading trainers, educators, or instructional professionals.
• Supporting employee engagement programs, surveys, communications, or culture initiatives.
• Managing projects with defined scope, schedules, and deliverables.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across multiple functions or organizational levels.
• Knowledge of adult learning, instructional design, training evaluation, and continuous improvement.

• You enjoy building from a blank canvas and turning strategy into practical solutions.
• You can find the signal through the noise and translate complex information into clear, teachable content and actionable recommendations.
• You are agile, technically curious, and comfortable creating structure amid ambiguity and change.
• You build collaborative relationships and influence across Operations, EHS, P&O, technical teams, and site leadership.
• You are equally comfortable setting direction and working through critical details.
• You seek out new challenges, welcome constructive debate, and adapt as priorities and assumptions evolve.

• Build a site-wide training function, curriculum, and trainer team from the beginning.
• Shape the learning culture and employee experience of a new manufacturing facility.
• Influence workforce readiness, safety, quality, engagement, and long-term plant capability.

$102,459 $%

Organization: Smart Infrastructure

Job Type: Full-time

Category: Customer Services