Business Title Technical Learning & Workforce Development Lead

Responsibilities

People Tec is currently seeking a Technical Learning & Workforce Development Lead to support our Huntsville, AL location.

The Lead owns the technical‑training function across the enterprise: identifying current and emerging technical capability gaps, standing up the specialized training and certifications our programs and pursuits require, and serving as a technical learning liaison who connects engineering subject matter experts (SMEs) with company leadership. The role prepares the workforce for program execution, proposal pursuits, customer requirements, and future growth areas, with an emphasis on anticipating capability needs before they become program or proposal constraints.

This is a hybrid role. The most effective candidate combines genuine technical grounding with strong instructional design and facilitation skills, along with the communication ability to build trust and credibility with both technical and non‑technical audiences. Success depends on engaging engineers and SMEs as a credible partner, translating complex technical content into practical and scalable learning for the broader workforce, and producing clear, accurate material for leadership.

The Lead complements People Tec’s established professional‑development programming by providing dedicated focus on and ownership of technical workforce capability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as a technical learning liaison
  • Build trusted relationships with Technical Fellows, engineers, program leaders, capture and proposal teams, and corporate leadership to understand current capabilities, emerging needs, and workforce readiness gaps that could affect customer delivery, proposal readiness, or strategic growth.
  • Translate technical content into clear, accurate, and executive‑ready material for leadership briefings, board meetings, offsites, customer discussions, congressional and stakeholder engagements, and internal communications.
• Align learning to business priorities and get ahead of need
  • Monitor upcoming opportunities, recompetes, customer priorities, and technical trends to recommend proactive training investments before gaps become program or proposal constraints; support workforce readiness planning for new pursuits and strategic growth areas.
  • Conduct needs assessments and translate business goals, capture activity, and technical and performance gaps into prioritized roadmaps, measurable success metrics, and curriculum architectures, including role‑based pathways, technical academies, and certification tracks.
• Source and stand up technical training and certifications
  • Research, evaluate, and coordinate external training providers, vendor‑led courses, and certification programs in areas such as MBSE, Cameo, systems engineering, AI/ML, cybersecurity, software development, cloud, modeling and simulation, data analytics, and other emerging company priorities.
  • Identify certifications required for specific program awards, secure the appropriate instruction, and ensure the right employees are trained and certified on schedule.
• Own and maintain the technical‑training corporate function
  • Provide dedicated ownership of the technical‑training portfolio, ensuring it is actively maintained, current, and aligned to evolving technologies, customer requirements, and program needs.
  • Partner with Technical Fellows, engineers, and external providers to convert complex technical knowledge into job‑ready learning solutions, labs, job aids, certification pathways, and scalable academies.
• Design and deliver learning end‑to‑end
  • Manage planning, design, development, delivery, evaluation, and continuous improvement of learning experiences using a structured methodology, spanning instructor‑led training, virtual instructor‑led delivery, e‑learning, microlearning, hands‑on labs, and performance support.
  • Create, modify, and continuously improve curricula for technical and non‑technical populations, supporting employees from onboarding through advanced technical specialization.
• Coordinate change management enablement
  • For high‑impact systems, tool, process, and operating‑model rollouts, build adoption plans that include stakeholder mapping, role‑based learning…