Consultant-technical trainer job description

Job Title:
Technical Training Consultant

Department:
Human Resources

Country:
United States of America

State/Province:
Arkansas

City:
Lowell

Full/Part Time:
Full time

Job Summary:
Under general supervision, this position is responsible for architecting, developing, and delivering software development modern workplace learning and training experiences for new and existing Software Engineers of the J. B. Hunt Engineering & Technology (E&T) organization. They will work directly with Enterprise Architects, E&T Senior Leadership, Software Developers, and Procurement within E&T to help set the strategic vision for the Developer Center of Excellence for technical learning and development of our Software Engineers. Additionally, this position will need to assist in executing the strategic vision they helped set. This position is highly technical and requires experience as a software engineer.

Job Description:
Key Responsibilities:
• Assess individual and group needs and problems to identify skills gaps that are "training-treatable"
• Design, develop, and deliver modern workplace learning experiences (e.g., provide modern content and training, enable continuous self-learning and self-development, and support learning from the daily work)
• Coordinate with SME's and Architects on content curation and learning paths
• Implement modern content and training practices (e.g., distance learning, e-learning, experiential learning, flipped classroom, blended learning)
• Integrate diverse, real-world situations and experiences into learning resource design
• Exhibit a high energy and enthusiastic presentation style that will engage and energize participants
• Assess effectiveness of learning experiences
• Continuously and proactively updates and improves the effectiveness of the content and delivery of learning resources
• Identifies third-party learning alternatives, coordinates scheduling, and procurement of those services
• Promote and market learning opportunities
• Instruct software engineers on an individual or group basis in order to support their continuous learning
• Continually sharpens their knowledge and skills of the technical environment used in the E&T software development development process in order to keep learning resources and content (internally developed or curated) up-to-date and to better collaborate with E&T Architects and SMEs
• Engages with Senior E&T Leadership on to set help set the Developer Center of Excellence strategic vison and practices in order to and make continuous improvements
• Continually reviews E&T processes and practices for changes in order to keep learning resources and content (internally developed or curated) up-to-date and to better collaborate with E&T Architects and SMEs
• Lead technology learning campaigns
• Mentor other Technical Training Consultants

Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:Bachelors degree with 5 or more years of software development experience and 2 or more years of experience in designing, developing, and delivering training experiences Preferred Qualifications:
Extensive experience in both front end and back end application development.Extensive experience with WordPress.Experience in designing and delivering eLearning.Experience in designing and delivering Virtual Training.Experience with a mature dev ops environment and cloud platforms.
Skills & Abilities:
Must look forward to, and gain energy from, the execution of a learning program.Highly effective at being detailed, organized, efficient, and deadline driven on all project and administrative tasks.Extensive experience using MS Office applications such as PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.Extensive experience using tools to design, develop, and deliver modern content and training practices (e.g. Captivate, Indesign).Expert at active listening and building rapport with internal customers at all levels.Excels at time management with little supervision.Very strong verbal and written skills.Collaborative, flexible, and committed team player.Extensive experience with Instructional Design Concepts and Adragony (e.g. ADDIE, Rapid ISD, Gange's 9) Must be extremely effective at assessing and delivering developmental feedback, as well as receiving it on a regular basis.Foundational knowledge and experience with the tools, technologies, frameworks, processes, and practices used in the E&T software development process. This includes, but is not limited to, application programming interfaces, application security, automated testing, databases, DevOps (e.g. continuous integration and delivery), various front-end and back-end programming languages, distributed version control systems, containers and container orchestration, messaging, monitoring applications, user interface design and development, web service design and development, cloud platform services and concepts, Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban).Extensive experience conducting needs analysis to determine training-treatable requirements and appropriate delivery methods.

Education:
Bachelors: Computer Engineering (Required), Bachelors: Human Development (Required)

Work Experience:
Human Resources, Software Development

Job Opening ID:
00468666 Technical Training Consultant (Open)

“This job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.”

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