Looking to build your career with a company that values innovation, stability, and people? Join our dedicated team as a Manager, Technical Training in Bridgeton, MO!
Since 1946, Hunter Engineering has been aligning cutting-edge technology with a strong commitment to quality. As a family-owned, American-made company, Hunter is the global leader in automotive service equipment, with our products used in over 130 countries by top vehicle manufacturers, tire companies, and service centers.
We’re proud to be recognized as a Best Places to Work finalist by the St. Louis Business Journal for five consecutive years (2022 – 2026) – a testament to our commitment to our people. Here, employees are supported, challenged, and take pride in their work. We offer exceptional benefits, a healthy work-life balance, and meaningful opportunities for professional growth.
If you’re ready to join a team that’s shaping the future of automotive service, read on.
As a Manager, Technical Training, you will be responsible for designing, delivering, and continuously improving learning programs that enable Business Consultants, Technical and Training Representatives, Field Trainers, Domestic Distributors, International Partners, and Home Office Staff to successfully sell, install, support, and train on Hunter Engineering Company equipment solutions. This role ensures training content aligns with business objectives, product strategy, and field performance needs while maintaining strong cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, Production, Quality Analysis, and Product Management.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, deliver, and continuously improve global learning programs that enable Sales, Service, Distributors, International Partners, and National Accounts to perform as consultative business advisors and technical experts.
- Design and deliver engaging technical training for internal and partner Service Representatives, including installation, diagnostics, maintenance, repair, calibration, and customer instruction, with consistent standards across regions.
- Create scalable training content, curricula, and onboarding programs, including training for new Hunter Technical & Training Representatives and ongoing service refresher courses.
- Support new product launches by developing aligned curricula, evaluating service documentation, and ensuring readiness for field and customer-facing teams.
- Manage and optimize the Learning Management System (LMS), including course structure, certifications, tracking, reporting, and continuous content updates.
- Analyze post-training feedback, LMS data, and field performance insights to drive continuous improvements in content quality, delivery effectiveness, and training satisfaction scores, while supporting customized customer visits and global training initiatives.
- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Production, Quality Analysis, and Product Management to keep the training organization informed of design changes, manufacturing processes, quality insights, and product roadmaps.
- Assist in planning and administering global sales and service meetings, including training content, agendas, and supporting materials.
- Develop and deliver targeted training for Business Consultants focused on needs-based consultative selling, enabling them to uncover customer challenges, align solutions to operational goals, and articulate value through insight-driven conversations.
- Develop and deliver tailored agendas while hosting red-carpet guests through Hunter headquarters, providing informative product demonstrations and showcasing Hunter culture, values, and commitment to customer success.
- Additional duties as assigned
What You’ll Bring:
- Associate’s degree in automotive technology, automotive maintenance, or similar area preferred; high school diploma required
- 3+ years of experience in training, adult learning, or blended learning
- Strong background in technical learning and development within manufacturing, automotive, or industrial environments.
- Skilled in delivering scalable, customer-focused training solutions for channel partners and global audiences, translating complex technical content into practical learning experiences, and applying adult learning and blended learning principles.
- Experience working cross-functionally, supporting distributor networks, building certification programs, and using data and learner feedback to drive continuous improvement is essential, along with strong communication and stakeholder influence skills across diverse contexts.
- Computer skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Desktop Publishing, and Database preferred
- Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes.
- ASE certification desired.
What We Offer:
- Industry-Leading Healthcare Coverage
- Profit-Sharing Plan with Safe Harbor Contribution
- Generous Paid Time Off & Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Free Onsite Fitness & Recreation Center
Join us in our mission to ‘Align People and Innovation to Drive Excellence!’
- Make Lives Better Together
- Take Pride in the Extraordinary
- Define the Standard
Skills Required
- High school diploma
- Associate's degree in automotive technology, automotive maintenance, or similar area
- 3+ years of experience in training, adult learning, or blended learning
- Background in technical learning and development within manufacturing, automotive, or industrial environments
- Experience designing and delivering scalable training for channel partners and global audiences
- Experience working cross-functionally and supporting distributor networks and certification programs
- Experience using data and learner feedback to drive continuous improvement
- Computer skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Desktop Publishing, and Database
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- ASE certification
Hunter Engineering Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hunter Engineering Company and has not been reviewed or approved by Hunter Engineering Company.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many salaried and plant roles, with consistent descriptions of good pay and fair compensation. Earning potential can be notably strong in consultative field roles when performance and territory align.
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Retirement Support — A Safe Harbor 401(k) with an automatic company contribution is paired with a separate profit‑sharing plan. Plan specifics include immediate vesting for Safe Harbor funds and a defined vesting timeline for profit sharing.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation that scales with tenure, personal days, and a broad paid holiday schedule are described. Parental and adoption leave complement the package, with paid volunteer time also noted.
Hunter Engineering Company Insights
What We Do
Hunter Engineering Company is a global leader in automotive service equipment, offering state-of-the-art wheel alignment systems, wheel balancers, tire changers, vehicle inspection equipment, brake lathes and more. Since 1946, when Automotive Hall of Fame inductee Lee Hunter founded Hunter Engineering, the company has built a reputation for innovation and visionary leadership in the application of the newest technologies to automotive undercar service. Hunter's award-winning research and development team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers are responsible for hundreds of patented and exclusive features that make Hunter products the most productive undercar service equipment available. Hunter has a total of over 350 awarded patents while releasing an average of 7-10 new patents each year. Hunter fields the largest dedicated sales and service force in the undercar service industry with approximately 390+ sales representatives and 410+ independent service representatives throughout the United States.
