Hiring: Production Trainer Company: Johnson Outdoors Location: Mankato, MN Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:45:44 Target Skills & Keywords : Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint About the job Experience: •Typically requires a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a training capacity in a manufacturing environment. Required Skills: •Evaluates training needs, current practices, gaps, and creating and delivering a training development plan. •Recruits and schedules external vendors to deliver training programs to meet specific training needs when warranted. •Alerts leadership of any potential performance or behavioral issues with new employees. •Partners with the manufacturing/production team to understand and define processes to ensure efficiency and product quality. •Creates production process sheet (direction on how to complete a production process) formats for production staff, maintains, and updates as needed. Provides training and feedback to job-specific trainers on training methods used to teach employees how to perform their job accurately and efficiently. •Works with manufacturing engineering to create specific equipment training and ensures training is completed. •Utilizes quality and EARS data to determine effectiveness of training and updates as needed. •Performs specific build area training on various production cells on the production floor. Qualifications: •Associates degree in business administration, education or equivalent. •Demonstrated ability to lead a team and work under tight deadlines while maintaining positive employee relations. •Demonstrated capacity to be proactive and possess strong research skills, resolve issues and drive training initiatives independently or within a team environment. •Demonstrated capacity to analyze processes and data to determine training needs and develop materials. •Demonstrated capacity to provide innovative training techniques which mirror current industry trends and standards •Demonstrated excellent verbal presentation and communication skills to provide effective guidance and training to new team members. •High knowledge level of safety, 5S housekeeping systems and quality guidelines which should be followed in a production/manufacturing environment •Demonstrated capacity to make independent and effective decisions. •Demonstrated capacity to successfully learn new skills and processes. •Excellent organizational and prioritization skills. Compensation: •With generous paid time off and holiday benefits, health insurance and wellness plans Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!