Job Description

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

Job Category

HRThe Senior Technical Trainer is a vital role in the success of Bandag and their independent franchisees. This position will assist franchised Bandag retread manufacturing plants with any issues and training involved in the Bandag retread process. This will include the skills to properly administer, deliver, develop and follow-up on training courses developed by the Technical Training Department in relation to the retread process, equipment maintenance, production inefficiencies, quality issues or process troubleshooting. The Senior Technical Trainer may travel approximately 25%-50% of the time based upon customer demand and will assist with training project development and courses delivered in Muscatine, Iowa and Akron, OH when not in the field. This is a position which is valued by the Bandag dealer organization for the experience, knowledge, and professionalism it brings in helping them to sustain and improve their retread plant operations.

** Our ideal candidate must live in the Akron, Ohio area **

Responsibilities

• Deliver classroom and in-field retread process training courses which benefit both the dealer and manufacturing plant technician
• Understand and deliver retread production courses that increase retread production, maintain quality, and improve technician and Retread Production Manager knowledge as well as note inefficiencies within the manufacturing plant
• Must be able to operate all Bandag retread plant equipment properly and safely
• Provide individual equipment or process training classes to experienced retread technicians, retread plant managers, fleet representatives, or Bridgestone Teammates no matter their experience
• Must be able to perform and teach nail hole and section repairs on commercial truck tires according to process specifications
• Individual must have a detailed working knowledge of the retread plant, all its workstations, and be capable to provide Retread Plant Tours when needed.
• Work to develop virtual training modules on all aspects of the retread process
• Understand and deliver training provided through the Halight Learning Management System
• Assist with training courses delivered in Muscatine, Iowa and Akron, OH. These will include Certified Retread Technician, Advanced Tire Analysis, tire repair, equipment maintenance training, Retread plant Manager training, fleet process training as well as Bandag Technical Service Representative training in both English and Spanish.
• Applicant will be required to be proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point, and TEAMS).

Skills

• Bilingual proficiency in Spanish is a plus.
• Excellent people skills – ability to communicate and interact with students in a positive manner across all functional levels
• Excellent presentation skills

Minimum Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a master’s degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience

At Bridgestone, you are Free to Be

We believe people can only provide superior service and quality to others when they bring their whole self to work. We believe in championing all perspectives, individuals and teams because we understand the importance of seeing the world and our business through many different lenses. We are building a team as diverse as the world we serve. So, show us what you are made of, because who you are is what we need.

What we offer

At Bridgestone, what really matters is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for future generations. Whatever role you fill, when you represent Bridgestone, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality”, for that, we offer you more than just a competitive compensation; we will provide you:

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
• A diverse and inclusive team.

Bridgestone is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to consider for employment all individuals regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Employment Eligibility

If hired, a Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification must be completed at the start of employment. Temporary work authorization or the need for sponsorship may disqualify you from employment.