Training Program Specialist

General Overview
About Hadrian

At Hadrian, we believe that the future of American manufacturing is built by a unified, forward‑thinking team composed of diverse individuals from all walks of life.

Our guiding philosophy centers around collaboration, ownership, and execution, enabling continuous improvement, increased automation, and expanding the boundaries of what’s possible.

Having successfully demonstrated the impact of our automation engine with the launch of Factory 2, we are poised to significantly expand our aerospace business and venture into new manufacturing processes.

Our proven approach leverages software to enhance visibility, standardize workflows, and create a highly accessible environment for entry‑level workers entering manufacturing for the first time.

The Workforce Development team is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of manufacturing talent within a challenging, equitable, and meritocratic environment.

Our goal is to accelerate the maturity and operational effectiveness of Hadrian’s factories through targeted training programs.

The team is responsible for developing and managing a comprehensive training system, driving software adoption, standardizing operational processes, and maintaining an integrated training and certification ecosystem.

The Training Program Specialist (TPS) drives the development of Greenfield manufacturing sites by leveraging the most influential component of Hadrian’s production system : people.

Tactically, the TPS ensures robust training and procedural frameworks are developed, implemented, and maintained to support factory growth and workforce competency.

Strategically, the TPS builds workforce development plan tailored to each factory’s operational demands and business context.

This role requires up to 100% travel, strategically structured around factory maturity phases:

• Build Phase (High Travel)

  • Extensive travel during new factory ramp‑ups.

  • Rapidly onboard new staff, ensuring safe and efficient operational launch.

  • Quickly achieve baseline operational capacity.

• Operate Phase (Moderate Travel)

  • Reduced travel; focus shifts to empowering local trainers and leads.

  • Coaching and developing local expertise for reliability and predictable factory outcomes.

  • Solidify known capacity targets.

• Optimize Phase (Minimal to No Travel)

  • Stationed at a single factory with minimal travel.

  • Dedicated to continuous, incremental process improvement.

  • Emphasis on maintenance, cost control, and capacity maximization

Your central objective is to proactively move the learning curve of a new factory leftward—rapidly reducing the cost per labor unit and driving performance toward optimal efficiency. Your success directly contributes to lowering operational costs, enhancing competitive positioning, and maximizing factory output and effectiveness.

• 70% Shop Floor:
  Directly involved in hands‑on, on‑the‑job training alongside technician trainers.

  • Hadrian learning system is grounded in on the job training

• 30% Classroom/Theoretical:
  Delivering engineering concepts, structured SOP development, and knowledge capture activities.

• Onboard as a technician and work on the shop floor

• Understand Hadrian production system and software integration points

  • Gain familiarity by becoming certified on at least 2 distinct stations

  • Learn Hadrian customer‑specific workflows

  • Build relationships

• Deliver small scope training improvement

  • Under the guidance of more experienced WFD team, you will independently develop a small addition to training on a scoped workflow

  • This will include gathering information on the shop floor, developing the necessary content and addition to SOP, delivering the training and train‑the‑trainer process

  • Use this to learn how to manage recertification and version control within the LMS app

• Own training for multiple stations / area of the factory that is under stress

• You will be assigned to a department that needs training help, likely due to a production bottleneck or dip…