Team Coach Technical Training Air Manufacturing Innovation

**WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH** The ideal candidate works onsite in Beaverton within Nike’s Air Manufacturing Innovation environment, leading an eight-person technical training team. They report to the Sr. Global Manager of Technical Training & Development and partner with Operations leaders to build workforce capability and close skill gaps. **WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR** The ideal candidate has experience leading technical training in a 24x7 lean manufacturing environment, with a strong record of building practical learning systems that improve capability, quality, and performance. They are a respected people leader who provides clear direction, coaches effectively, and partners well with Operations to close workforce skill gaps. They bring curiosity, a growth mindset, and a bias for simplifying work—using Lean thinking, industry best practices, and AI-enabled tools to make training efficient and effective. Specific experience, traits, and skills: * Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, experience, and training * Minimum 3 years of related experience * Respected people leader who gives clear direction, communicates well, and supports a 24x7 training team. * Experience planning training schedules, shift coverage, and qualification plans for production ramps and launches. * Strong compliance focus across safety, equipment certifications, training requirements, and standard work. * Lean manufacturing experience and a strong network for best-practice learning and problem-solving. * Curiosity for innovation, including using AI to simplify work and improve how training content is developed and deployed. **WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON** You’ll lead technical training activation for Air MI by developing trainers, aligning coverage to production demand, and ensuring consistent delivery of Nike/AMS standard work. You’ll use Lean thinking and AI-enabled tools to simplify content, improve deployment, and strengthen OJT quality. * Lead and coach a technical training team with clear direction, feedback, and support across a 24x7 environment. * Align trainer coverage, schedules, and qualification plans to support ramps, launches, and changing business needs. * Ensure consistent delivery of Nike/AMS standard work through classroom and OJT audits, evaluations, and coaching. * Drive compliance with safety expectations, equipment certifications, and training completion requirements. * Partner with Operations leaders to identify skill gaps and build practical learning solutions that improve performance. * Improve curricula and training practices using Lean thinking, AI-enabled simplification, and industry best practices. * Track outcomes such as engagement, attendance, attrition, training completion, OEE, safety, efficiency, PPLH, and labor variance to improve training impact. * Identify and scale lean best practices across Air MI. We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the [Candidate Accommodation Request Form](https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/5153e46a93f4460db48eb9e611386685).