Your Opportunity as the Education and Training Leader
The primary function of this role is to lead and execute Education & Training (E&T) standards across the site. This includes owning and maintaining training materials, managing the skills qualification process, and ensuring training documentation systems remain accurate and compliant. The role is accountable for E&T performance by maintaining the site skills matrix, analyzing and reporting monthly training results, and developing and coaching site E&T functional leaders to drive capability and organizational growth.
Location: McCalla, AL
Work Arrangements: Monday–Friday with flexibility to support operations during occasional evenings, nights, or weekends, based on operational and business needs.
In this role you will:
- Own E&T scorecard and monthly Results
- Owns and maintains E&T skills matrix
- Assess needs to achieve zero loss due to training outages
- Point of contact with corporate for all company E&T initiatives
- Identify E&T standardization, consistency, and implement best practices
- Act as leadership team’s liaison to the teams E&T outages & wins
- Work with operations leaders to identify loss due to lack of training
- Coach and develop E&T Functional Leaders
- Facilitate E&T skill building and meetings on regular cadence
- Facilitate all step up card revisions, getting approval from Operations, Technical Team, Equipment Owners
- Own, record, and manage Step-up card and qualification process
- Own and facilitate all computer qualification testing and training
- Owns master copies of all operator manuals, working closely with EO’s to keep material up to date
- Maintains the Document control system for site
- Maintain personnel training records and reports
- Manage training files in Workday Learning Module
- Support the Development/Execution of training materials for the site
- Administer Mechanical Aptitude Test
- Support and model Operational Excellence work system behaviors
- Preserve Smucker culture
- Workday Learning Partner
- Utilize team members to successfully drive high-performance work culture with a focus on understanding, prioritizing, eliminating losses, and building and executing effective short- and long-term plans
- Effectively communicate expectations, provides timely feedback, and manages performance of team
- Develop team members to successfully perform current and future roles
What we are looking for:
Minimum Requirements:
- A bachelor’s degree is required or 5 years of experience building and leading education and training systems in a manufacturing environment.
- Minimum of 2 years of manufacturing operational experience or food manufacturing preferred
- Minimum of 2 years of experience leading, supervising, or managing others preferred
Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:
- Ability to work under limited supervision while managing multiple priorities and projects
- Strong Organizational skills
- Experience facilitating meetings and presentation skills
- Demonstrates strong computer skills Microsoft word, Excel, Power Point, etc.
- Ability to lead team to execute plans and achieve results
- Can lead, coach, and develop others
- Strong leadership skills
- Project management skills
- Problem solving skills
- Strong inter-personal skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Willingness to work a flexible schedule that most effectively supports the organization
- Ability to work off-shifts or weekends as needed
The Right Place for You
We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.
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We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent)
- 5 years experience building and leading education and training systems in a manufacturing environment (alternative to degree)
- Minimum 2 years manufacturing operational experience or food manufacturing
- Minimum 2 years experience leading, supervising, or managing others
- Experience managing training files in Workday Learning Module / Workday Learning Partner
- Experience maintaining document control systems and training documentation
- Strong computer skills (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Ability to coach, develop, and lead teams; strong communication and project management skills
The J.M. Smucker Co. Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are described as strong, with a company 401(k) match, immediate vesting in some materials, and access to an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. These elements contribute to a favorable view of total compensation value.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for all parents and on-site childcare at key locations signal a family-forward approach. Additional supports such as adoption assistance and pet-related leave reinforce this emphasis.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, seasonal compressed schedules, and flexibility options are highlighted across materials. The ability to start with substantial PTO and buy additional time enhances perceived time-off breadth.
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What We Do
Each generation of consumers leaves their mark on culture by establishing new expectations for food and the companies that make it. At The J.M. Smucker Co., it is our privilege to be at the heart of this dynamic with a portfolio that appeals to each generation of people and pets with products found in 90 percent of U.S. homes and countless restaurants. This includes a mix of iconic brands consumers have always loved such as Folgers®, Jif® and Milk-Bone® and new favorites like Café Bustelo®, Smucker’s® Uncrustables® and Rachael Ray® Nutrish®. By continuing to immerse ourselves in consumer and pet parent preferences for food, how it’s purchased and how the companies that make it should operate, we will maintain the important role we play in their lives. This will allow us to continue growing our business and the positive impact we have on all of those who count on us.
