Operations Trainer

Operations Trainer

Ornua Foods is seeking an experienced Operations Trainer to join our team. As an Operations Trainer, you will play a key role in providing hands-on training and support to ensure operators are competent and skilled in the delivery of standardised working practices to enable improved line performance, quality, consistency and accuracy across production.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitoring the budget for internal and external training and ensure it delivers the required training requirements.
• Assisting CI Lead in business projects and change initiatives to inspire action and drive operational excellence across operations.
• Creating, maintaining, and updating relevant training documents for existing and new machinery and processes to ensure all information is current and accurate
• Working with H&S to support development and delivery of safe systems of work procedures and one-to-one training to minimise individual and business risk in line with regulatory requirements.
• Designing, coordinating and delivering operational training, including one-to-one support to deliver SOP, Food Safety and H&S requirements. Ensure staff have the knowledge and capability to be effective in their roles.
• Coordinating, delivering and monitoring first day induction training, to ensure new starters receive an engaging, informative and aligned orientation to the business, their roles and regulatory requirements.
• Working with managers, controllers and supervisors to identify skills/competence training needs, along with talent and potential, to establish a training/development schedule that will deliver aligned and timely skills development and longer-term development programmes.
• Maintaining, updating and monitoring staff skills and competence records to ensure information is up to date, proactively identifying refresher training and skills gaps.
• Acting as site contact for Operational Apprenticeship providers organisations, ensuring programmes are delivered and supported across the business, to maximise the individual and business benefits.
• Sourcing external training to support to ensure competence, skills and development objectives are achieved in line with prescribed timescales, and within the budget forecast.

Requirements:

• Train the Trainer qualification preferable or experience training a team
• Strong IT skills
• Experience of assessing training needs, designing and delivering training
• Good working knowledge of food production associated processes and capabilities

Ornua Foods is a purpose and values-led organisation, creating value for Irish dairy farming families. We invest in our people and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement. We are looking for people who share our values, are curious, forward-looking, take ownership and work together to build a future for themselves and Ornua Foods.