Manufacturing Skills Development Lead

Cargills size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe responsible and sustainable way.

We are a family company providing food ingredients agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials from eggs to edible oils salt to skincare feed to alternative fuel. Our 160000 colleagues operating in 70 countries make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.

Job Purpose and Impact

As part of the Global Learning & Development team this role will lead the strategy and execution for developing technical capability across our manufacturing workforce. The focus is on empowering employees at all levels to strengthen their expertise ensuring a safe efficient and high-performing operational environment.

This role will design and implement scalable core and common learning programs that build foundational and advanced technical skills reinforce operational discipline and support continuous improvement across manufacturing sites. Programs will focus on practical application hands-on learning and performance outcomes that directly enhance productivity quality and safety.

The position will partner closely with manufacturing leaders as well as technical experts to ensure adoption is aligned with strategic priorities and regulatory requirements.

As a recognized subject matter expert in learning and development design this job partners closely with key manufacturing stakeholders to gather technical content and expertise translating complex engineering and manufacturing concepts into understandable and engaging learning experiences and materials to achieve measurable learning outcomes. This job applies instructional design principles technologies and multimedia tools to guide the design development and implementation of measurable and scalable experiences that drive performance-focused employee skill development.

Key Accountabilities

• PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT : Guides the design and development of highly complex learning experiences for the organization ensuring the organizations learning and development strategies drive performance impact by supporting the evaluation of organization strengths and weaknesses to identify learning objectives reviewing current learning and development programs identifying and analyzing performance impacts and incorporating improvements.
• PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION : Develops and deploys learning and development design strategies methodologies tools approaches and processes for the organizations professional employees to identify high potential talent facilitate discussions provide top talent view and deliver overall learning and development insights to critical partners.
• PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION : Administers learning and development design programs ensuring alignment with learning objectives use of multimedia content and effectiveness of quality assurance checks to enhance the overall learning experience.
• LEARNING EXPERIENCE DEVELOPMENT : Ensures application of instructional design principles and methodologies to create engaging and interactive learning experiences reviews analysis of learning needs approves appropriate instructional strategies and ensures content is organized in a structured and logical manner.
• STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT : Partners collaboratively with other subject matter authorities and stakeholders to provide thought leadership on content and materials and ensure accuracy and alignment with learning objectives.
• PROGRAM ANALYSIS : Evaluates the effectiveness of learning solutions through assessments feedback and metrics and partners with the related team to continuously resolve opportunities to enhance the learning experience bringing best practices industry trends and user feedback into future design iterations.
• VENDOR MANAGEMENT : Partners with key vendors and stakeholders to stay updated on the latest learning technologies tools and methodologies and identifies opportunities to integrate them into instructional design and delivery including learning management systems authoring tools and other technology platforms to create and deliver content.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

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Compensation Data

The expected salary for this position is $130000 - $160000. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific location certifications education and level of experience. The disclosed range estimate may be adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. This position is eligible for a discretionary incentive award. The incentive award amount is dependent upon company performance and your personal performance.

At Cargill we put people first. As part of your overall rewards we offer a comprehensive benefit program including medical and / or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked. Visit : learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions).

Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability / Vet.

Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Key Skills

Lean Manufacturing,Six Sigma,Continuous Improvement,ISO 9001,Lean Six Sigma,Management Experience,Manufacturing & Controls,5S,Manufacturing Management,Kaizen,Chemistry,Manufacturing

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 130000 - 160000