Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients.
Want to help us make a difference?
Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients.
Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles.
We are looking for our next Training & Development Lead within our Human Resources team. This role leads the assessment, design, development, coordination, facilitation, implementation, and evaluation of technical training programs, primarily supporting manufacturing operations. Partnering with Human Resources, subject matter experts, and site leadership, the role builds workforce capability, supports employee growth and compliance, and advances operational excellence through effective learning and development initiatives.
This position is located in Keokuk, Iowa.
Compensation:
The current salary range for this role is estimated to be $82,000-$95,000. In addition, this position may also be eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation. The specific compensation offered to a candidate will be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
What You’ll Do:
Lead manufacturing training initiatives through the full training lifecycle, including needs assessment, design, development, delivery, administration, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
Identify training needs using operational reviews, workforce data, employee feedback, skills-gap analyses, stakeholder consultations, Value Stream Mapping, and other improvement tools; partner with site and manufacturing leaders and subject matter experts to set development priorities and qualification requirements.
Develop, revise, and maintain manufacturing training curricula, work instructions, training guides, learning materials, and assessments, ensuring content is accurate, current, job-relevant, and aligned with company policies, safety requirements, quality standards, and regulatory expectations; maintain review, approval, and version control.
Facilitate instructor-led, virtual, classroom-based, and on-the-job training; prepare materials, coordinate sessions, manage enrollment and attendance, assess understanding, adapt delivery to employee learning needs, and support consistency across shifts and departments.
Maintain accurate training records and manufacturing training matrices; support leaders to track qualifications, completion, overdue requirements, and retraining needs, and provide leaders with progress reports, development feedback, and recommended actions.
Administer Workday Learning courses, curricula, assignments, retraining intervals, attendance and completion records, content uploads, progress monitoring, and reports; maintain data accuracy, integrity, and confidentiality and partner with HRIS administrators to resolve issues and improve processes.
Evaluate training effectiveness through participant feedback, knowledge checks, observed performance, qualification results, and relevant KPIs; recommend improvements based on training data and operational results and support internal, customer, and regulatory audits with training documentation.
Partner with Human Resources, site leadership, manufacturing leaders, and subject matter experts to support employee development, workforce capability, leadership development, onboarding, orientation, knowledge transfer, and other organizational development initiatives.
Participate in continuous improvement; follow applicable safety, quality, hygiene, environmental, ethics, and compliance requirements; maintain confidentiality and escalate significant safety, quality, compliance, or training risks through appropriate channels.
What You’ll Need:
Education:
Associates or Bachelors degree preferred. Candidates with equivalent relevant experience supplemented…