Director, Technical Training & Qualifications
Who We Are:
Atlas Energy Solutions Inc. (NYSE: AESI) is a leading solutions provider to the energy industry. Atlas’ portfolio of offerings includes oilfield logistics, distributed power systems, and the largest proppant supply network in the Permian Basin. With a focus on leveraging technology, automation, and remote operations to enhance efficiencies, Atlas is centered around a core mission of improving human beings’ access to hydrocarbons that power our lives and, by doing so, maximizing value creation for our shareholders.
The Role:
The Director, Technical Training & Qualifications is responsible for building and leading Atlas Energy Solutions’ Technical Training & Qualifications Center of Excellence (COE) across Power, Sand, and Logistics.
Reporting to the VP, Head of Human Resources, this leader will establish the enterprise framework, standards, processes, tools, and governance required to consistently develop and qualify Atlas’s technical workforce.
The Director will partner closely with Operations, Operational Excellence, Safety, Engineering, Talent & Culture, and technical subject matter experts to create a repeatable approach for translating critical work and standard operating procedures into effective technical training and demonstrated qualifications.
This role is a core component of Atlas’s workforce resilience strategy. By creating greater visibility into technical capabilities, building deeper benches of qualified employees, reducing reliance on tribal knowledge, and creating repeatable pathways to develop critical skills, the Technical Training & Qualifications COE will help ensure Atlas has the qualified workforce needed to safely and reliably operate today while preparing for future growth.
Responsibilities:
Build the Technical Training & Qualifications COE
- Design, stand up, and lead an enterprise COE supporting Power, Sand, and Logistics.
- Establish consistent standards, methodologies, tools, and processes for technical training and qualifications.
- Build scalable programs that support business growth, new facilities, changing technologies, and evolving workforce needs.
Establish Technical Qualification Frameworks
- Develop role-based skills matrices and qualification pathways for critical technical roles.
- Establish standards for competency assessment, qualification, certification, refresher training, and requalification.
- Create visibility into who is trained, who is qualified, and where critical capability gaps exist.
Build Technical Training Programs
- Partner with technical subject matter experts to develop practical, role-based training.
- Translate SOPs and standard work into effective training and qualification requirements.
- Build technical onboarding pathways that accelerate employees from hire to qualified performance.
- Determine when programs should be developed internally, with vendors, or through external partners.
Strengthen Workforce Capability
- Identify critical technical capabilities and workforce gaps across the organization.
- Build cross-training and multi-skilling strategies that increase qualified bench strength.
- Partner with Workforce Planning and Talent Management to anticipate future technical capability needs.
- Create repeatable ways to capture and transfer critical technical knowledge.
Lead Programs, Technology & Measurement
- Lead business-aligned Program Managers supporting Power, Sand, and Logistics.
- Manage the enterprise roadmap for technical training and qualification programs.
- Partner on LMS, learning technology, simulation, digital learning, AI, and other scalable training solutions.
- Establish meaningful measures including time to qualification, qualification coverage, skills gaps, cross-training, training effectiveness, and workforce readiness.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- 8+ years of progressive experience in technical training, technical qualifications, workforce development, operations, operational excellence, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience building, scaling, or transforming a technical training or qualification function.
- Experience establishing competency-based technical training, skills matrices, qualification pathways, certification programs, or similar systems.
- Experience in energy, power generation, industrial operations, manufacturing, logistics, mining, field operations, or another technically complex operating environment strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of adult learning, instructional design, and competency-based learning methodologies.
- Experience with Learning Management Systems and learning technologies.
- Strong program management and process-development capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and work across Operations, Operational Excellence, Safety, Engineering, HR, Talent & Culture, and technical subject matter experts.
- Ability to translate complex technical work into scalable and measurable training and qualification programs.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to connect training and qualification outcomes to workforce and operational performance.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
Work Location & Travel Requirements
- Location: Austin
- Work Environment: (Office, Field, Shop, Outdoors, etc.)
- Travel: 20%
What You Will Love About Us
- Best People and Team. Great Place to Work , Hire Vets, Top Place to Work For – Austin American Statesman
- Your Well-Being is a Priority. 100% covered Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Invest in Your Future. 401K with company match, immediate vesting
- Relax and Recharge. Paid time off (non-rotational roles), 15+ company paid holidays
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement:
Atlas Energy Solutions is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
This commitment applies to all aspects of employment, including recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, and termination.
Reasonable Accommodation
Atlas Energy Solutions provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and those with pregnancy-related conditions in accordance with applicable law.
Job Disclaimer
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be modified at any time based on business needs.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of progressive experience in technical training, technical qualifications, workforce development, operations, operational excellence, or a related discipline.
- Experience building, scaling, or transforming a technical training or qualification function.
- Experience establishing competency-based technical training, skills matrices, qualification pathways, certification programs, or similar systems.
- Experience in energy, power generation, industrial operations, manufacturing, logistics, mining, field operations, or another technically complex operating environment.
- Strong understanding of adult learning, instructional design, and competency-based learning methodologies.
- Experience with Learning Management Systems and learning technologies.
- Strong program management and process-development capabilities.
- Ability to influence and work across Operations, Operational Excellence, Safety, Engineering, HR, Talent & Culture, and technical subject matter experts.
- Ability to translate complex technical work into scalable and measurable training and qualification programs.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to connect training and qualification outcomes to workforce and operational performance.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
What We Do
Founded organically by Permian operators, Atlas Sand provides the Oil & Gas industry access to the largest, highest quality frac sand reserves in West Texas. This local sand advantage will reduce well costs and remove the risk of delayed or lost delivery associated with long distance transportation. Atlas has expansive reserves on both ends of the West Texas sand play with the large open Kermit Dune position to the north and the giant open Monahans Dune position to the south. This gives Atlas the unique ability to be the closest local sand provider to more wellheads than any of its counterparts. Atlas Sand is excited to further competitively differentiate the already dominant Permian advantage by pairing our local high quality sand with the very best reservoirs and operators in the business. Atlas Sand designed its state-of-the-art frac sand plants with redundancy and flexibility to greatly reduce down time allowing Atlas to reliably and consistently produce more tons per year with less stress on our equipment and our employees.
