Lead Commercial Training Specialist
Are you an experienced technical trainer who enjoys leading complex projects, developing others, and shaping global learning programs? As the Lead Commercial Training Specialist at Hypertherm Associates, you will provide technical and instructional leadership in the commercial training team. You will design and deliver high-impact learning solutions, lead cross-functional projects, coach trainers, ensure training-facility readiness, and help advance a consistent, safe, and exceptional learning experience for Customers, Partners, and Associates.
As a Lead Commercial Training Specialist, you will:
- Lead projects, set instructional direction, and engage subject matter experts.
- Elevate content quality: Use approved AI tools, share best practices, and provide final technical review.
- Deliver advanced technical training: Facilitate all relevant courses, including custom training and hands-on instruction in CAD/CAM software programming, safety, operation, optimization, and maintenance, .
- Ensure delivery excellence: Resolve complex technical questions, maintain consistent standards, and coach trainers.
- Improve training: Identify gaps and lead improvements to processes, content, facilitation, and technical accuracy.
- Lead projects and stakeholders: Manage plans, stakeholders, communications, deadlines, accountability, and risks while removing technical barriers.
- Own facility readiness: Maintain equipment availability, calibration, safety, organization, and issue escalation; support new equipment planning.
- Provide onsite leadership: Advise the team, lead trainer onboarding and development, and reinforce standards without direct supervision.
- Shape programs and strategy: Assess needs, influence program design, support annual planning, strengthen stakeholder relationships, and lead global initiatives.
Who you are and the experience you will bring:
- Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of training-related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience independently managing complex, cross-functional projects and stakeholders
- Direct or indirect leadership experience, including coaching, mentoring, or developing others
- Training content development, facilitation, and presentation skills, with a strong understanding of adult-learning principles
- Advanced organizational and project-management skills, with a high level of initiative and independence
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and the ability to use Copilot and other approved AI tools to improve efficiency and quality
- Expert-level knowledge of applicable plasma or waterjet technologies and products, including software, safety, operation, and maintenance.
- Familiarity with Hypertherm operating systems, processes, go-to-market strategies, and business models
Location: OMAX in Kent, WA
Travel: Minimal – as necessary
Additional benefits in joining Hypertherm Associates:
- Collaborative, 100% employee-owned culture
- Profit-Sharing and Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP)
- Five days/year paid Community Service Time
- Strong commitment to Environmental Stewardship
- Stable, growing organization with a no-layoff philosophy
Sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time.
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At Hypertherm Associates, we are committed to building an inclusive diverse, flexible, and collaborative environment. If our mission resonates with you, but you don’t meet all posted requirements, we encourage you to still apply. We will evaluate your application materials and may suggest alternative roles that better leverage your strengths and talents. For positions with multiple levels, we will evaluate your prior experience to determine the level within our organization you are best aligned based upon the job applying.
CURRENT ASSOCIATES OR TEMPORARY ASSOCIATES: Please apply via your internal Workday career account.$90,901.00-$151,503.00 AnnualThis is the base pay range that an applicant can expect to make upon hire. Pay within this range will vary based upon relevant experience, skills, and education among other factors.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 4+ years of training-related experience
- Experience independently managing complex, cross-functional projects and stakeholders
- Direct or indirect leadership experience, including coaching, mentoring, or developing others
- Training content development, facilitation, and presentation skills
- Strong understanding of adult-learning principles
- Advanced organizational and project-management skills
- High level of initiative and independence
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to use Copilot and other approved AI tools
- Expert-level knowledge of applicable plasma or waterjet technologies and products, including software, safety, operation, and maintenance
- Familiarity with Hypertherm operating systems, processes, go-to-market strategies, and business models
What We Do
Hypertherm Associates is a U.S. based manufacturer of industrial cutting products and software. Its products, including Hypertherm plasma and OMAX waterjet systems, are used by companies around the world to build ships, airplanes, and railcars; construct steel buildings, fabricate heavy equipment, erect wind turbines, and more. In addition to cutting systems, the company creates CNCs and software trusted for performance and reliability that result in increased productivity and profitability for hundreds of thousands of businesses. Founded in 1968, Hypertherm Associates is a 100 percent Associate-owned company, employing approximately 2,000 Associates, with operations and partner representation worldwide. Learn more at www.HyperthermAssociates.com. Fifty years ago, in a small two car garage, Hypertherm began its journey with simple, powerful ideas about business and an invention that shaped the future of industrial cutting. The same ideals that fueled our inception all those years ago are still what drive us today: a passion for challenging what is achievable with the products we create, the culture we foster, and the experience we deliver to our customers. As we look to the horizon and the next 50 years, we are proud that our people, partners, and innovations will shape the future with solutions that make anything possible for industries around the world. Key elements of the Hypertherm formula include: • Dedicated Associates focused on customer-centered product design and support • Local sales and service • Broad application experience and proven results • Sustainable and ethical business practices benefit our customers and communities
