Dandy

Director, Training & Enablement

Dandy

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Indianapolis • United States

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Build and Own the Training Function
  • Define the vision, strategy, and standards for training across Manufacturing and DDC, delivering a cohesive, high-performance department with a clear mandate
  • Develop and execute a training roadmap on a 6–12 month horizon, balancing near-term skill gaps with long-term workforce development
  • Develop and implement strategies to deliver consistent outcomes scaled across the network
  • Serve as the primary voice of Training in operations-wide initiatives, ensuring workforce readiness is never an afterthought in decisions about new equipment, process rollouts, or headcount growth
  • Drive Hire-to-Production Excellence
  • Own the full employee experience from Day 1 through independent production. Onboarding, orientation, training, certification, and ongoing development
  • Establish clear speed-to-proficiency benchmarks for each role and build training programs that reliably hit them
  • Identify and eliminate the gaps between what training teaches and what the floor actually requires
  • Lead and Develop Your Team
  • Lead a geographically distributed team of Training Managers, Leads, and Specialists across our US, Egypt, South Africa, and Costa Rica facilities
  • Build career pathways for trainers and subject matter experts; make training a function people want to grow within
  • Hold a high bar for training design, delivery, and consistency across sites — and coach your team to meet it
  • Operate Through Data
  • Build KPIs and reporting infrastructure that make training effectiveness visible: speed-to-proficiency, error rates, defect reduction, productivity ramp
  • Use data and feedback loops — from quality teams, floor leads, and direct observation — to continuously improve programs
  • Partner with Operations, Quality, and People teams to ensure training investments translate to measurable business outcomes
  • Influence Cross-Functionally
  • Partner with Manufacturing and DDC leadership to align training with operational needs, new product/equipment rollouts, and continuous improvement goals
  • Build the relationships with Quality and People teams that make training a lever for organizational performance — not a siloed compliance function

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in training, workforce development, or operational enablement, with significant time spent in a manufacturing or industrial environment
  • You've trained direct labor workers, not just corporate employees
  • Demonstrated experience building or significantly rebuilding a training function
  • You know what "before" and "after" looks like and can articulate the path
  • Deep comfort operating on the production floor
  • You can read a workflow, identify where process breaks down, and trace a quality issue back to a training gap
  • Track record of building and managing distributed teams
  • You've led people across multiple sites while holding standards consistent
  • Strong analytical instincts
  • You measure what matters, build the reporting that shows it, and make decisions based on what the data actually says
  • Experience partnering with Operations and Quality leaders as a peer
  • You know how to influence without authority and earn credibility through results
  • Clear, direct communication
  • You can present to a VP one hour and troubleshoot with a floor trainer the next
  • Exposure to rapid headcount scaling
  • You've built onboarding that works when you're hiring fast, not just when you have time to be deliberate.
Benefits
  • healthcare
  • dental
  • mental health support
  • parental planning resources
  • retirement savings options
  • generous paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
training developmentworkforce developmentemployee onboardingtraining program designKPI developmentdata analysisprocess improvementquality assurancetraining effectiveness measurementcertification programs
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationinfluencing without authorityteam managementanalytical thinkingrelationship buildingcoachingproblem-solvingcross-functional collaborationstrategic thinking