Paint Trainer - 1st shift - Salina, KS

Great Plains Manufacturing has a new position for a Paint Trainer. Paint Trainer will work in a plant’s Paint Department. The Paint Trainer will provide training to new Painters on basic spray painting and paint line skills for the products built in that plant. They work with current Painters who would benefit from more advanced training to increase their skills to Great Plains production standards for more complex products.

Responsibilities:

• Train and ensure that new hires meet quality and production standards for top coat paint.
• Follow-up on employee quality and productivity standards after they are assigned to their team.
• Provide coaching and feedback during training program to aid with continuous improvement.
• Consistently initiate and implement improvements to the paint training program.
• Perform production painting between paint new hire training classes as needed.

Skills and Qualifications Include:

• Work well with all personalities and have on-the-job experience training and mentoring a variety of coworkers.
• Ability to create a new hire training plan based on their background and experience.
• Proficient in training new hires to paint all products built in a plant, beginning with repetitive painting of parts and advancing to complex top coat painting over time. New Hires will paint to plant standards prior to completion of program.
• Proficient in paint skills for Great Plains and Land Pride products, preferred.
• Demonstrated commitment to safety, and serves as a role model in safety behavior and wearing PPE in the plants.
• 3-5 years of spray painting experience. Able to read and understand standard operating procedures for painting.
• Strong computer skills in Excel, Outlook, and Word.
• Strong written and verbal communication; bi-lingual in English and Spanish preferred.
• Trainer and new hire will work day shift during training and transfer to regular shift after completion of training program.
• Able to work split shift, if needed to support supervisor or lead in facilitating on-the-job training.