Plant Training & Onboarding Lead

Shape Your Future with Amhil North America
By joining  Amhil , you’ll be part of a hands‑on team committed to safety, quality, innovation, and continuous improvement. We provide the tools, training, and support needed to help you strengthen your technical skills, make a real impact on our operations, and build a stable, rewarding career. If you’re ready to take the next step and grow with a team that values expertise and accountability—you’ll join Team Amhil.

About the role
The  Plant Training & Onboarding Lead  is responsible for coordinating, standardizing and continuously improving onboarding, technical training, qualification and development programs for all hourly employees across Amhil’s & Stone manufacturing operations.

The role ensures new hires receive structured, role‑specific onboarding and practical on-the-job training that prepares them to safely and effectively perform the work for which they were hired. The Lead partners with Operations, Human Resources, Safety, Quality, Maintenance and departmental leaders to improve employee readiness, close skills gaps and strengthen early‑tenure retention.

What will you do?

Develop, coordinate and maintain standardized onboarding programs for all hourly plant roles, including Production, Process Technicians, Maintenance, Quality, Warehouse, Shipping/Receiving and Material Handling.

Create role‑specific 30-, 60- and 90-day onboarding plans with defined learning activities, job exposure, competency milestones and accountabilities.

Ensure new hires are assigned to and trained on the work they were hired to perform, with appropriate exposure to actual job duties throughout the onboarding period.

Coordinate onboarding schedules among HR, supervisors, trainers and support departments and confirm required resources are available before the employee starts.

Conduct or coordinate new hire check‑ins and review onboarding survey feedback to identify and correct gaps affecting readiness, engagement and retention.

Escalate onboarding breakdowns, delayed job exposure or missed qualification milestones to the appropriate operational leader.

Technical Training & Qualification

Develop and maintain role‑based training plans, qualification standards, checklists and certification requirements for hourly positions.

Coordinate technical, safety, quality, GMP/food safety, SOP and work‑instruction training using current approved materials.

Verify competency through observation, demonstration, knowledge checks and documented sign‑off before employees perform critical tasks independently.

Coordinate retraining and recertification when processes, equipment, standards or employee performance requirements change.

Build and improve progression pathways for operators, process technicians and other hourly roles.

Support the design and execution of standardized On‑the‑Job Training programs across plants and shifts.

Partner with department leaders to select qualified trainers and mentors based on technical competence, communication skills, reliability and safety performance.

Provide train‑the‑trainer coaching, tools and guidance to improve consistency, demonstration, feedback and adult‑learning practices.

Skills Management & Cross‑Training

Own and maintain plant skills matrices for all hourly roles and ensure qualification status is current and visible.

Identify critical skills gaps, single‑point dependencies and coverage risks by plant, department, role and shift.

Partner with supervisors and managers to prioritize cross‑training, refresher training and coverage for critical roles.

Supervisor & Cross‑Functional Partnership

Provide supervisors with onboarding tools, progress reviews, coaching guides and training status information.

Support supervisor capability in job instruction,…