Logistics Training Supervisor-Shepherdsville, KY

It's more than a job

As part of the Contract Logistics team at Kuehne+Nagel, you will play a key role in designing, managing, and optimizing solutions that keep goods moving efficiently. Whether you’re leading a team, engineering processes, or driving projects, your work ensures that our customers’ products are stored, handled, and delivered with precision. From everyday essentials to seasonal items, what we do in Contract Logistics impacts businesses and communities around the world.

At Kuehne+Nagel, your contribution goes far beyond the warehouse—it helps shape the flow of global trade.

The Training Supervisor is responsible for developing, implementing, and facilitating all necessary training for the Kuehne+Nagel workforce supporting logistics operations for customers.

• Supervision of all training activities
• Provide ongoing training for the KN and temporary workforce (hourly and salary exempt)
• Planning and conduct of all Orientation Trainings, Code of Conduct, Basic Skills Trainings, Safety Trainings, Forklift Trainings and Process Trainings for warehouse employees
• Work closely with onsite leadership, local HR, the Staffing Agencies and local QSHE
• Conduct audits at the end of the training process
• Supervision of the hand‑over – take‑over (HOTO) from training to Operations (supervisor)
• Responsible for setting up and filling the training matrix for the site
• Supervision of cross training in the facility
• Reporting of training status and training needs to direct manager
• Documentation of the training activities in coordination with local QSHE department
• Set up of local training areas
• Technical guidance and supervision of the local training team (process trainers, forklift trainers)
• Continuous development of the local training system and training conception in close cooperation with the QSHE Manager
• Set up a sustainable training structure for the site
• May assist with creating SOP and regular SOP audits

• Bachelor Degree or equivalent work experience
• Train the Trainer Certification preferred
• 1 year prior training experience in a distribution or warehouse environment
• Excellent presentation skills and communication competences
• Appropriate interpersonal, social and methodical skills are required

Kuehne+Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. Base wage is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles.

Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data.

Logistics shapes everyday life – from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world. As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference.

Whether we help deliver life‑saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

Kuehne+Nagel is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) and to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful retaliation. Kuehne+Nagel strictly prohibits all discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, color, age, national origin, ethnicity, religious creed or belief, physical or mental disability, marital or familial status, legally protected medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical condition), gender (including gender identity and gender expression), sexual orientation, citizenship status, protected activity (such as opposition to or reporting of prohibited discrimination or harassment).

Kuehne+Nagel will also make reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants and employees, including accommodations for pregnancy and childbirth, and for the sincerely held religious beliefs of applicants and employees depending upon individual circumstances unless such accommodation would create an undue hardship on Kuehne+Nagel.