Technical Training Manager

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is looking to hire a Technical Training Manager to support Georgia-Pacific manufacturing facilities in the Pacific Northwest. This individual is responsible for supporting the learning and development needs across several facilities. The Training Manager develops training programs or learning plans to achieve business goals. This individual will need to identify and analyze metrics to measure the performance and success of learning solutions. The Training Manager will also provide professional development coaching and support to facility learning and development providers.

This is a remote position that requires travel 50-60% of the time. Primary travel will be to 3 key sites: Camas, WA; Wauna, OR and Halsey, OR. The ideal candidate will either be located in the Pacific Northwest or be willing to relocate to the area.

Our Team

The Learning and Development team supports manufacturing facilities in Consumer Products, Containerboard, and Cellulose across the United States. We help employees learn and retain the skills and knowledge necessary to fulfill their roles, responsibilities, and expectations. We promote our Principle-Based Management culture to help each other and the business reach its full potential.

What You Will Do

• Regularly communicate with manufacturing leaders, site trainers and other Georgia Pacific team members across multiple locations to ensure alignment between business priorities and the strategic learning plan and roadmap.
• Responsible for ongoing learning needs analysis resulting in the design and development of role-specific and site-specific learning strategies for a Georgia Pacific manufacturing business unit in tandem with local leadership and site learning and development team members.
• Provide professional development support for site-learning and development team members including guiding them how to look for and close gaps in training content and materials that need updating; applying adult learning methods and models to strengthen the upskilling and reskilling of employees; and identifying future training needs and a plan to create a curriculum to support that training.
• Partner with cross-functional teams and facilities to design and develop role-specific training and learning content across CPG, Containerboard, and Cellulose.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify outdated or obsolete training and learning content.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in manufacturing or an industrial environment supporting organizational development.
• Experience communicating with a variety of stakeholders across the organization to include senior leaders.
• Experience in designing and executing successful learning programs aligned to strategic business priorities and goals using a variety of learning modalities.
• Ability to effectively organize and manage multiple learning projects simultaneously.
• Experience coaching and supporting the professional development of learning professionals including the ability to design, develop and facilitate high-impact professional development for both new and existing adult learning practitioners.
• Ability and willingness to travel 50-60% of the time as dictated by business needs.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience managing and supporting training professionals and those who provide learning solutions as part of their job.
• Extensive knowledge about adult learning methodologies and how to apply them to create high-impact learning experiences, particularly in the area of accelerated learning and microlearning.
• Experience developing annual training plans and materials, at scale, for a company.
• Experience using SmartSheet or other project management tools to support project management throughout a project lifecycle.
• Experience managing learning and content management platforms.

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day -to make everyday products even better.

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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.