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About the Role
The Training Specialist is responsible for training all plant new hires and retraining existing plant employees on job aspects, LiDestri expectations, and safety policies. This role fully supports and drives quality operations on the production floor and communicates effectively with production team members, management, and customer support departments.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate on-the-job and classroom training to diverse adult learners using various instructional techniques and adult learning principles.
- Create a positive and engaging learning experience that upholds high performance and safety standards, reinforcing LiDestri's core values.
- Assess learner performance using 30/60/90-day proficiency checklists and provide constructive feedback and re-training.
- Monitor, evaluate, and record training activities and program effectiveness.
- Recommend solutions to address employee performance gaps.
- Collaborate with the Instructional Design team on content development and review.
- Support new procedural updates, ensuring timely training implementation and delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree preferred, or 3+ years of experience facilitating training to diverse adult learners.
- Ability to deliver training using clear verbal and written communication skills.
- Exceptional ability to develop relationships across the organization, improve processes, and communicate effectively with employees, colleagues, and plant leadership.
- Excellent organization and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to make decisions, work with minimal supervision, and interact professionally with all organizational levels.
- Ability to work in a manufacturing environment with exposure to long periods of standing/moving, moving mechanical parts/conveyors, loud noise, varying temperatures, and wet/dry conditions.
- Ability to lift/carry less than 50 pounds.
- Ability to perform frequent reaching, pulling, climbing stairs, stooping, kneeling, and bending.
Skills
- Training facilitation
- Adult learning principles
- Performance assessment
- Feedback delivery
- Instructional techniques
- Content development
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Relationship building
- Process improvement
- Problem-solving
- Decision making
- Self-motivation
Location
- Rochester, NY
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years experience in facilitating training
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree preferred
Benefits
- Great career-pathing
- Professional development, including unlimited online training courses
- Health insurance with premium contributions
- Dental
- Vision
- HSA
- 100% company paid life insurance
- 100% company paid long-term disability
- 401k with employer match
- Paid time off (vacation, sick pay, wellness time off)
- 10 holidays
- Company bonuses
About the Company
- LiDestri Food and Drink has grown from its roots as a pasta sauce and salsa manufacturer to become an R&D engine, formulating and producing innovative food products for national and retailer brand partners.
- A family-run company based in Rochester, NY, LiDestri employs over 1,000 people across three U.S. locations.
- They have decades-long partnerships with respected consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies and highly inventive retailer brands.