Job description
Business Unit Overview:
The company’s portfolio ranges from iconic brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, Grape-Nuts® and PEBBLES™ cereals, as well as Peter Pan® peanut butter to the top-selling Malt-O-Meal® brand of value ready-to-eat cereals and more. Our business is growing and that’s where you come in. Our company is a hearty mix of ambitious people who want to make great things happen. Location Description:
Responsibilities and Accountabilities :
Because this role is regional and has multi-plant responsibility, travel is expected and estimated to be 30 to 50 percent.
Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings Inc., is focused on providing delicious food choices for every taste and budget. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all.
Brand:
It’s an exciting time in pet food! Post Holdings, Inc. recently announced an agreement to buy several pet food brands from The J.M. Smucker Co. The transaction is anticipated to close early in the second calendar quarter of 2023. Upon closing of the acquisition, Post expects to create a new pet food platform within Post Consumer Brands. This role is part of the team of 1,000 employees who will soon join the Post family to focus on and grow these iconic pet brands.
The company’s portfolio ranges from iconic brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, Grape-Nuts® and PEBBLES™ cereals, as well as Peter Pan® peanut butter to the top-selling Malt-O-Meal® brand of value ready-to-eat cereals and more. Our business is growing and that’s where you come in. Our company is a hearty mix of ambitious people who want to make great things happen.
The Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania facility is 1,120,845 square feet and home to about 470 hard working team members who are proud to produce iconic pet food brands like Kibbles 'n Bits® and 9Lives®. This location has a cannery that produces wet dog food and there is also a Distribution Center on-site. Bloomsburg is home to Bloomsburg University, a municipal airport, a landmark Town Park with many acres of recreational activities, and has one of the largest and longest running fairs in the country. With so much to do and see, Bloomsburg is a great place to live, work and play!
Responsibilities:
Overview:
Under the direction of the Regional Continuous Improvement Manager, the Master Trainer delivers performance improvement through championing standard job processes and best practices across assigned plants. The position serves as a Master Trainer for training programs, oversees train-the-trainer programs and serve as the subject matter expert ensuring plant and food safety, quality, and continuous improvement. The Master Trainer must be able to establish credibility and deliver high-energy programs through curriculum design/customization and project management that are required to satisfy the needs of a wide range of cultures and working professionals. Training areas include, document creation, compliance, process improvement and technical, as well as professional development education and special initiatives designed to improve the performance of individual staff. This role will partner with many departments to determine current and future skills and needs, liaising with peers in ensuring the successful delivery of innovative learning solutions; always ensuring our business expectations are exceeded through measurable return on investment.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities :
- Oversees site training program at assigned plants to ensure that training gaps are identified and plans in place to address annual goals and long-term strategy. Verifies proper methods are being used to effectively meet business/site needs.
- Works alongside leaders and peers to share best practices and drive program consistency across manufacturing sites.
- Provide work direction, leadership and a shared vision to a team or direct reports.
- Trains job instruction trainers; develops operations employees to meet and/or exceed performance expectations and conduct company standards for personal safety, productivity, quality, food safety, sanitation, environmental, and regulatory compliance.
- Assesses needs of the organization assisting in identifying plant performance gaps and develop training strategies to close those gaps.
- Populates the learning management system and could assist in developing operator task lists and job break down sheets.
- Adapts to changing business needs to maintain quality training.
- Develops, tracks and assess progress on training plan and schedule.
- Helps establish an “environment of success”, based on mutual respect, promotion of company culture, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
- Maintain harmonious relationships between shifts by effective communications and shift transfer meetings; available to occasionally work other than regular shifts such as holidays and weekends.
- Works with third party subject matter expert to add or supplement training delivery and content.
- Uses a variety of media to deliver training materials and content.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in business-related discipline or equivalent experience required.
Experience:
- Excellent facilitator/trainer using adult learning principles, design, create and develop learning solutions to meet learning objectives.
- 7+years’ experience in food safety, sanitation, and/or food industry environment required.
- 7+ years’ experience in direct people management associated to a training function, inclusive of instructional design and planning teams.
- Proficient at using Learning Management Systems; experience with remote and e-Learning a plus.
- Expertise in the development, delivery and evaluation of training initiatives to support ongoing improvements in: knowledge, skills, processes and engagement.
- Highly detailed, organized, efficient, and deadline driven on all project and administrative tasks.
- Superior project management skills to steward a team through a project.
- Proficient with PowerPoint and Microsoft Office (Excel, Word).
- Must be able to read, write, and communicate in the English language.
Because this role is regional and has multi-plant responsibility, travel is expected and estimated to be 30 to 50 percent.
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