The Production Floor Trainer is responsible for supporting the onboarding, training, and development of production team members on the shop floor. This role helps ensure employees understand standard work, safety expectations, quality requirements, and proper production processes. The trainer will work closely with production leadership, coordinators, and team members to build job knowledge, improve consistency, and support a positive learning environment. When not actively training employees, the Production Floor Trainer will be expected to work on the production floor and support daily production needs as assigned.
Your Responsibilities:
· Train new and existing production employees on assigned processes, work instructions, safety procedures, quality standards, and daily expectations.
· Provide hands-on coaching and guidance to help employees build skill, confidence, and consistency in their work.
· Support the completion and maintenance of training records, skills matrices, and competency documentation.
· Reinforce safe work practices, proper use of tools and equipment, and adherence to company policies and procedures.
· Partner with coordinators, supervisors, quality, safety, and engineering teams to identify training needs and close skill gaps.
· Observe production work and provide constructive feedback to employees in a professional and respectful manner.
· Help standardize training methods across assigned areas to improve onboarding effectiveness and reduce variation.
· Support continuous improvement efforts by identifying training barriers, process concerns, and opportunities to improve employee performance.
· Promote teamwork, accountability, and a positive shop floor culture.
· Other duties as assigned
Wabash: Changing How the World Reaches You®
Wabash (NYSE: WNC) combines physical and digital technologies to deliver innovative, end-to-end solutions that optimize supply chains across transportation, logistics and infrastructure markets. Headquartered in Lafayette, Indiana, Wabash designs, manufactures, and services an extensive range of products supporting first-to-final mile operations, including dry and refrigerated trailers and truck bodies, platform trailers, tank trailers, structural composites and more. In addition, through the Wabash Marketplace and Wabash Parts, customers gain access to a nationwide parts and service network, Trailers as a Service (TaaS)℠, and advanced tools designed to streamline operations and drive growth. By enabling businesses to thrive today and prepare for tomorrow, Wabash is Changing How the World Reaches You®.
Wabash recently entered into a joint venture, Wabash Marketplace, with Fernweh Group LLC, an investment firm specializing in the industrial technology sector. This joint venture will accelerate Wabash’s development and growth of an end-to-end digital platform, all while enhancing the overall experience for dealers, customers, and suppliers through the ease, speed, and convenience of a connected partner ecosystem. Initial focus of the Wabash Marketplace will be scaling the Trailers as a Service offering as well as part sales and new services.
To learn more about Wabash and its innovative solutions, visit www.onewabash.com.
