HR Training Manager

Eaton’s  division is currently seeking a HR Training Manager. This role is based at our Jonesville, SC facility. Relocation assistance will be provided.  The expected annual salary range for this role is $97000 - $143000 a year.   Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.  What you’ll do: 
 The Training Manager is responsible for owning and improving the training system for hourly manufacturing employees at the Jonesville facility. The primary focus of this role is ensuring operators are trained correctly, consistently, and to verified competency resulting in improved product quality, safety, and productivity. This role is highly hands‑on and visible on the shop floor. The Training Manager partners closely with Operations and Quality to identify training gaps, strengthen on‑the‑job training, improve trainer effectiveness, and enforce training standards. While the long‑term vision includes broader professional and leadership development, success in this role begins with stabilizing and elevating hourly production training.   In this role you will:   Ownership of Hourly Production Training (Primary Focus) Own end‑to‑end hourly production training, including onboarding, OJT, cross‑training, certification, and refresher training. Establish clear training expectations for each core production role, including defined training paths, timelines, and competency requirements. Ensure training is consistent across shifts, value streams, and trainers. Competency Verification and Quality Alignment Implement and enforce competency verification (demonstration, assessments, observation) not just training completion. Maintain full authority to delay or stop certification when competency standards are not met. Use quality, scrap, rework, audit, and defect data to identify training gaps and drive corrective actions. Partner with Quality and Operations to ensure training reflects current work instructions and critical quality requirements. Trainer Effectiveness and Accountability Establish and maintain a train‑the‑trainer process, including trainer selection, expectations, coaching, and feedback. Regularly observe trainers and training delivery to ensure consistency and effectiveness. Hold trainers and coordinators accountable for quality of training not just scheduling and documentation. Training System and Governance Ensure training documentation and records are accurate, complete, and audit‑ready (including LMS / Q‑Pulse and skill matrices). Develop and track meaningful training metrics (time‑to‑competency, certification accuracy, retraining needs, audit findings). Escalate systemic issues and provide clear recommendations to leadership. Evaluate and pilot modern training methods (simulation, video, eLearning) where they directly improve speed, consistency, and quality.

Leadership and Function Growth Provide day‑to‑day leadership, coaching, and direction to hourly training coordinators. Assess current training resources and recommend future structure, roles, and capabilities as the plant grows. Act as the site expert on what the training function needs to support business demands. Build relationships with external schools/community partners to strengthen the hiring/training pipeline. Qualifications: 
 Basic Qualifications:   Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution Two (2) years leading manufacturing training/OJT, production readiness, or closely related operations/quality leadership in a plant environment Two (2) years of demonstrated experience building training that improves measurable outcomes (quality, safety, productivity, time-to-competency, etc.). Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT