Specialist, Bakery- Trainer

Aspire Bakeries is a North American baking company with a leadership position in specialty frozen baked goods. Formed from leading bakery companies, its innovative food portfolio includes breads, artisan breads, buns, cookies, donuts, muffins and pastries from beloved brands like La Brea Bakery®, Otis Spunkmeyer®, and Oakrun Farm Bakery®. With 13 bakeries in North America, we are committed to driving innovation, predicting upcoming consumer trends and flavors, and exceeding our customers’ expectations. Aspire Bakeries champions the values of Integrity, Ownership, Customer Focus, Creativity and Care to help us deliver on People Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Collaboration.

The Training Specialist role is the hands-on leader of training experiences with associates across the bakery. This role is critical to the successful skill development needs of our people, in areas including People & Food Safety and Job Skills such as operating equipment, ensuring product quality, and working together as a team of people committed to bakery success. A day in the life of the Training Specialist includes a variety of activities including – coordinating training schedules, updating training trackers and technology tools, and of course – training people!  In the bakery, training is an active part of how people learn new skills, grow their capabilities, and become ready to move into other jobs in their careers. 

Responsibilities: 

• Identify training needs by evaluating strengths and weaknesses
• Assist in developing training programs and prepare training plans as needed
• Support the development of the production classroom handouts, instructional materials, aids and manuals
• Support structured learning experiences and monitor their quality results
• Acclimate new hires to the business by conducting structured orientation sessions
• Deliver training courses
• Assess training effectiveness to ensure incorporation of taught skills and techniques into employees’ work behavior
• Periodically evaluate ongoing programs to ensure that the reflect any changes
• Stay current on training trends and tools in employee development
• Knowledge of learning management systems

Qualifications: 

• Associate’s degree and 4 years’ manufacturing or operations experience OR GED and 7 years’ experience
• Bilingual, English/Spanish preferred
• Experience in coordinating the training experiences for more than 100 employees preferred
• Strong skills needed in Microsoft Office 365 to develop reports, presentations and training materials as needed
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Key Capabilites

• Collaborates with stakeholders and builds buy-in
• Engaging and effective trainer
• Ability to self-manage work progress, identify challenges, and propose solutions to completion
• Sound decision making and resourceful

Physical Requirements - Candidate should be able to:

• Lift up to 50 lbs.
• Work standing or walking for long periods of time.
• Work bending and squatting.
• Work making fast and repetitive hand motions.
• Work in cold refrigerated and frozen conditions.

The Work Environment:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts and is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions, wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, and extreme cold.
• The noise level in the work environment is often moderate to loud.

Aspire Bakeries is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.