Who We Want:
We are looking for a dynamic Training Facilitator who is passionate about helping others learn, grow, and succeed. As a Training Facilitator you will manage and deliver training experiences for employees at all levels of the organization, to provide new hires and incumbent team members with the knowledge, skills, and learning experiences necessary to meet the expectations for their various roles and responsibilities. 

What You’ll Do:

• Conducts New Hire Orientation for employees to prepare them to work safely, accurately, and to perform at rate while producing quality products for our customers.
• Deliver training in-person, virtually, or asynchronously with our computer-based training system.
• Teach learners the documented procedures for using technical equipment like gauges, HMI’s, aerial cranes, powered industrial lift trucks, and other equipment to ensure safe operation, compliance to our quality management system, and in support of all applicable, federal, state and local requirements.
• Evaluate, certify, and document employee’s ability to perform work required by our competency frameworks, Common Core and Manufacturing Training Checklists.
• Proctor knowledge checks, skilled trades testing, and other validation tasks to verify level of knowledge and comprehension for employees with integrity.
• Responsible for data entry of training activity and outcomes to maintain accurate and defensible training records.
• Provide accurate KPI’s & employee data to support Weekly Review of Training Needs and Skills Gaps with Top Leadership to address skill gaps.

When and Where:

This will be a 1st Shift / 7:00 AM- 4:00 PM M-F position located at our Plant in Holland, MI.

Occasionally, this may require you to arrive early, stay late, or work on weekends, outside of our regular hours, to ensure we successfully meet customer needs, deadlines, or urgent requests. 

What You Need to Have:

• High School diploma/GED required; higher education experience preferred
• Two years manufacturing experience required; leadership experience preferred
• Demonstrable public speaking, corporate training, or instructional facilitation experience required.
• Is thorough, accurate, and reliable when performing and completing job tasks; demonstrates honesty and integrity in all aspects of work
• Professional speech and attitude while communicating with different genders, cultures, religions, beliefs, and ethnicities.
• Use of Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, etc.) required.
• Takes positive action to objectively resolve conflict by listening, staying focused on issue to find resolution, and monitoring progress. Maintains positive relationships by constructively resolving conflicts
• Works with a sense of urgency to meet the needs of customers and demonstrates excellent customer service towards learners and colleagues.
• Strong time management skills to be able to balance preparation, instruction, grading, data entry and contingencies as they arise
• Knowledge of Challenge safety policies and their impact on team member wellness.
• Demonstrates professionalism through dress and appearance, written and verbal communication and language, and preparedness.
• Uses feedback from others to continuously improve performance and work relationships.

Who We Want:
We are looking for a dynamic Training Facilitator who is passionate about helping others learn, grow, and succeed. As a Training Facilitator you will manage and deliver training experiences for employees at all levels of the organization, to provide new hires and incumbent team members with the knowledge, skills, and learning experiences necessary to meet the expectations for their various roles and responsibilities. 

What You’ll Do:

• Conducts New Hire Orientation for employees to prepare them to work safely, accurately, and to perform at rate while producing quality products for our customers.
• Deliver training in-person, virtually, or asynchronously with our computer-based training system.
• Teach learners the documented procedures for using technical equipment like gauges, HMI’s, aerial cranes, powered industrial lift trucks, and other equipment to ensure safe operation, compliance to our quality management system, and in support of all applicable, federal, state and local requirements.
• Evaluate, certify, and document employee’s ability to perform work required by our competency frameworks, Common Core and Manufacturing Training Checklists.
• Proctor knowledge checks, skilled trades testing, and other validation tasks to verify level of knowledge and comprehension for employees with integrity.
• Responsible for data entry of training activity and outcomes to maintain accurate and defensible training records.
• Provide accurate KPI’s & employee data to support Weekly Review of Training Needs and Skills Gaps with Top Leadership to address skill gaps.

When and Where:

This will be a 1st Shift / 7:00 AM- 4:00 PM M-F position located at our Plant in Irvine, TX.

Occasionally, this may require you to arrive early, stay late, or work on weekends, outside of our regular hours, to ensure we successfully meet customer needs, deadlines, or urgent requests. 

What You Need to Have:

• High School diploma/GED required; higher education experience preferred
• Two years manufacturing experience required; leadership experience preferred
• Demonstrable public speaking, corporate training, or instructional facilitation experience required.
• Is thorough, accurate, and reliable when performing and completing job tasks; demonstrates honesty and integrity in all aspects of work
• Professional speech and attitude while communicating with different genders, cultures, religions, beliefs, and ethnicities.
• Use of Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, etc.) required.
• Takes positive action to objectively resolve conflict by listening, staying focused on issue to find resolution, and monitoring progress. Maintains positive relationships by constructively resolving conflicts
• Works with a sense of urgency to meet the needs of customers and demonstrates excellent customer service towards learners and colleagues.
• Strong time management skills to be able to balance preparation, instruction, grading, data entry and contingencies as they arise
• Knowledge of Challenge safety policies and their impact on team member wellness.
• Demonstrates professionalism through dress and appearance, written and verbal communication and language, and preparedness.
• Uses feedback from others to continuously improve performance and work relationships.

Who We Want:

Reporting to the Vice President of Human Resources, the Director of Learning and Development will create innovative, enduring workforce development solutions to meet the organizations’ talent-related business challenges and help our team members advance their skillsets, knowledge, and capabilities. Human-centered design thinker that creates environments that drive personal and business success utilizing expert-level data analytics, performance management initiatives, create engagement, as well as talent development strategies.

What You'll Do:

• Demonstrated experience navigating a fast paced, dynamic working environment
• Demonstrated project management experience with multiple stakeholders prioritizing and delegating projects/tasks
• Demonstrated team leadership, partnership, influencing and communication experience
• Conduct assessments and analyses to define performance, skill and knowledge gaps and recommend training and development to drive individual and company-wide capability and performance improvement
• Responsible for training logistics and data integrity within the Learning Management System (LMS). Conducts annual needs assessment by administering surveys, focus groups, one-on-one interviews. Reviews outcomes to develop leadership and learning curriculum for the coming year. Establishes operational and performance tools and metrics to measure and support learning and development initiatives and programs, drives priorities and measures outcomes and efficacy
• Knowledge of statistical analysis (e.g., descriptive statistics and knowledge of statistical significance), quantitative research, and experience gathering and interpreting data
• Provides oversight to the Learning and Development team by supervising, guiding, and directing employees to optimize output and team collaboration. Ensures that all team members are equipped with the right skills, tools, and talents necessary for executing their objectives. Using the established people processes (performance, development, succession, and career) to ensure that their team’s level of performance and capabilities meet current and future standards. Influences and effectively communicates to key stakeholders on the progress of programs, program budgets and design in a timely manner
• Identifies organization-wide and business-specific learning and development needs through needs assessment; develops and implements strategic initiatives and solutions by creating, leading, and growing a world-class learning and development program.
• Ensures all learning and development programs and processes incorporate company policies and values while supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Lead the incorporation of the most effective learning and development modalities and strategies including gamification, simulations, and AI learning, when and where possible.
• Develops and drives communication, awareness and support of learning and development initiatives and expectations throughout the organization. Assumes prime responsibility for leading organizational improvement efforts to onboarding systems to increase “speed to productivity” for new hires across the organization.
• Responsible for budgeting and overall financial management of learning and development programs

When and Where:

This will be a day shift (M-F 8am – 5pm)  position located at our Corporate Office in Walker, MI.  This position requires travel to other locations and may require non-traditional working hours to achieve results.

Occasionally, this may require you to arrive early, stay late, or work on weekends, outside of our regular hours, to ensure we successfully meet customer needs, deadlines, or urgent requests.

What You Need to Have:

• BA or BS Degree in Organizational Development, Industrial Psychology, Education, Business Administration or Related field Required.
• 5+ years’ experience managing a training and development team at the corporate level
• 5+ years’ experience designing and delivering leadership and management programs, to include increasing levels of responsibility in the learning and development space required. 7+ years’ experience preferred
• 5+ years’ experience in managing HR systems in partnership with HRIS to enable key Talent  and Learning processes (e.g., LMS, performance and development systems, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of adult learning methodology practices, instructional design, and measuring effective learning and development programs
• Up-to-date knowledge and proficiency in the types and uses of technology in modern corporate learning and development
• Written, verbal, and presentation; ability to engage, inspire and influence people
• Actively engages in talent management practices (selection, promotion, development, and engagement) to cultivate a workforce that is well aligned with current and emerging talent needs
• Builds and sustains partnerships across organizational boundaries and functions as well as outside the organization to achieve common goals and outcomes
• Project management skills including planning, logistics, and program management and scheduling. Ability to manage multiple complex assignments, with proven ability to assess competing priorities in a high energy, fast paced environment. Strong organizational skills. PMP certification preferred, but not required
• Strategic planning and interfacing throughout the product lifecycle especially for complex or critical products. Impact of regulatory changes on internal processes or products. Clear, comprehensive understanding of the link between HR and business strategy
• Leads through analysis of situations with appropriate attention to detail and the big picture including consideration of impact at multiple levels of the system
• Up to 20% overnight travel required

Who We Want:

The Senior Technical Trainer – Robotics & PLC Automation is responsible for delivering and scaling hands-on technical training programs that build plant capability in: 

• Fanuc, ABB, and Kawasaki robotic systems 

• PLC programming and industrial controls 

• Automated manufacturing equipment troubleshooting 

• Electrical, safety, and robotics cell operation 

This role is a key driver of technical workforce development across all plants, ensuring operators, technicians, and maintenance teams have the skills to safely program, support, and improve automated production systems. This position serves as the organization’s lead technical trainer for robotics and controls, building standardized training pathways, supporting new automation launches, and reducing downtime through capability building.

What You'll Do:

• Deliver instructor-led and hands-on training for industrial robotics platforms for Fanuc, ABB and Kawasaki systems 

• Teach robot fundamentals such as teach pendant navigation, program creation and editing, tool and frame setup, motion instruction and cycle optimization, cell start-up and recovery procedures 

• Train teams in robotic safety standards, interlocks, and safe work practices inside automated cells 

• Develop and deliver training in PLC-controlled manufacturing environments, including PLC fundamentals and architecture, ladder logic interpretation, input/output troubleshooting, sensor and actuator diagnostics, and fault recovery and downtime response 

• Partner with engineering and maintenance to align training with plant controls standards  

• Build structured technical learning pathways for maintenance technicians, controls technicians, and manufacturing engineers 

• Create certification-style training programs that validate hands-on competency, not just completion 

• Develop practical learning tools such as programming exercises, troubleshooting simulations, equipment start-up checklists, job aids and quick-reference guides 

• Support new equipment launches by training teams before production ramp-up 

• Use training outcomes to drive measurable plant impact, including reduced automation downtime, faster troubleshooting response, improved safety in robotic environments, and Increased internal technical capability 

• Evaluate skills using practical assessments, demonstrations, and performance-based validation 

• Maintain training documentation and competency records through the LMS 

• Partner with plant leadership to identify automation skill gaps and deploy targeted development plans 

When and Where:

This will be a 1st Shift / 8AM-5PM M-F position located at our Plant in Walker, MI. 
Occasionally, this may require you to arrive early, stay late, or work on weekends, outside of our regular hours, to ensure we successfully meet customer needs, deadlines, or urgent requests.

What You Need to Have:

• Minimum 8 years of manufacturing experience, with significant exposure to automation and controls environments 

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on technical training experience in robotics, PLCs, or industrial automation 

• Demonstrated ability to train and support Fanuc robotic programming and operation, ABB robotic systems and automation cells, and Kawasaki robotics programming and troubleshooting 

• Experience with PLC programming and troubleshooting in a production environment 

• Knowledge of ladder logic fundamentals, control system diagnostics, Industrial electrical systems, and automation fault response 

• Ability to teach PLC concepts clearly to technicians and plant teams 

• Proven ability to teach complex technical concepts to diverse plant audiences 

• Strong facilitation, coaching, and instructional delivery skills 

• Comfortable training directly on the floor, in labs, and in classroom environments 

• Fanuc HandlingTool or iRProgrammer certification 

• ABB RobotStudio training experience 

• Kawasaki Robotics programming credentials 

• Rockwell Automation / Allen-Bradley PLC coursework 
• OSHA/RIA robotic safety training 
• Has high standards of performance for self.  Takes responsibility for actions, results, and mistakes.  Is thorough, accurate, and reliable when performing and completing job tasks; demonstrates honesty and integrity in all aspects of work. 

• Takes positive action to objectively resolve conflict by listening, staying focused on issue to find resolution, and monitoring progress.  Maintains positive relationships by constructively resolving conflicts. 

• Uses feedback from others to continuously improve performance and work relationships. 

• Has necessary experience, skills, and knowledge to perform all aspects of job; rotates through all job responsibilities.  Maintains knowledge and skills to perform job effectively. 

• Has ability to focus on benefits of change and see it as positive; approaches change or newness in constructive/objective manner; views change as learning opportunity. 

• Looks for good in others; works collaboratively with others; shares information and knowledge. 

• Is at work when scheduled and ensures coverage when absent; takes timely breaks/lunches; uses time wisely. 

• Strong communication skills 

• Strong time management skills 

• Comfortable presenting in front of audiences and Executive Team