Description
**Job Family:** Electrical Products
**Req ID:** 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.
**The Opportunity**
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.
**You Will Make an Impact By**
+ 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.
**Basic Qualifications**
+ 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.
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ 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.
**What Will Help You Succeed**
+ 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.
**Why Join Us**
+ 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 $175,644 10%
**Organization:** Smart Infrastructure
**Job Type:** Full-time
**Category:** Customer Services
