Production Floor Coordinator – Intermediate
- Project Details & Logistics
- Location: Gloucester, MA (100% Onsite)
- Role Type: Contract assignment
- Pay Range: $30.00 – $34.29 per hour
- Experience Required: 3–5 years
- Starting Rate: Determined based on relevant manufacturing, technical training, and coaching experience.
Role Summary
As a Technical Trainer / Success Coach, you’ll deliver instructor-led onboarding for assemblers, technicians, and logistics employees, with a primary focus on Workmanship Standards. You’ll lead classroom and hands-on lab instruction, explain technical procedures, and help employees build the skills needed to succeed in manufacturing.
You’ll also coach new hires on the manufacturing floor during their first 12 weeks, observing work, identifying skill gaps, and partnering with supervisors to reinforce safety, quality, standard work, and 6S practices.
Work Schedule
- Day Shift: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM – 4:35 PM
- Work Location: 100% onsite in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Applied Materials has been a global leader in engineering for over 55 years, powering innovations from semiconductors used in AI to advanced display technologies. Their work is shaping the future of technology—and the teams behind it are critical to that success.
Together, Raise and Applied Materials are building teams that can keep up with today's technological needs through the Applied Contract Talent Network, where skilled workers and contract opportunities meet.
By applying for this role, you'll be considered for ongoing opportunities based on your skills and availability.
This means:
- Access to multiple openings over time
- Faster placement into available roles
- Opportunity to grow within the program
Successful candidates will be evaluated based on their manufacturing experience, instructional and coaching skills, technical knowledge, and overall qualifications during the interview process. Compensation will be based on experience and the approved pay range.
Please Note: Successful applicants will be employees of Raise Group Public Benefit Corporation, working at Applied Materials facilities.
Responsibilities
- Deliver approved Workmanship Standards and related onboarding courses through instructor-led sessions, demonstrations, hands-on practice, and knowledge checks.
- Manage classroom and laboratory activities, ensuring training objectives, safety requirements, and learner participation expectations are met.
- Explain technical procedures clearly to employees with varying levels of experience while maintaining approved standards.
- Prepare training rooms, labs, tools, equipment, and systems; maintain instructor qualifications and required certifications.
- Develop and update training materials, job aids, and instructional media in partnership with GMTI and cross-functional subject matter experts.
- Observe production work, review technical documentation, and recommend improvements to training materials and Best Known Methods through approved processes.
- Provide structured on-the-floor coaching and on-the-job learning support to new hires during their first 12 weeks.
- Observe employee performance, provide constructive feedback, identify skill gaps, and reinforce workmanship, safety, quality, and 6S.
- Partner with line leads and supervisors to develop practical coaching and training plans that accelerate time to contribution.
- Maintain accurate learner progress, training records, assessment results, and workmanship observations; communicate trends and issues.
- Support continuous improvement, cross-functional collaboration, and qualified product build or test activities when needed.
Qualifications
- Education: Associate degree or equivalent combination of relevant technical education, training, and manufacturing experience.
Experience:
- 3–5 years of relevant experience in manufacturing, technical training, on-the-job training, production support, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience in an industrial manufacturing environment; cleanroom experience preferred.
- Experience delivering instructor-led technical training and hands-on demonstrations to adult learners.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing workmanship, standard work, safety, and quality practices.
Skills:
- Strong facilitation, verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to explain technical information clearly to learners with different experience levels.
- Ability to objectively observe work, provide constructive coaching, and identify skill gaps.
- Ability to work independently within defined procedures and collaborate with manufacturing leadership.
- Comfort with digital productivity, learning, documentation, and reporting tools.
- Sound judgment, tact, diplomacy, and timely escalation of safety and quality concerns.
- Commitment to standard work, safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
Preferred:
- Experience training employees on Workmanship Standards, assembly, test, logistics, safety, or quality.
- Instructional design, course maintenance, job aids, OJT programs, learner assessments, or train-the-trainer experience.
- Experience with instructional Manufacturing Execution Systems, OJT qualification systems, or comparable training tools.
- Semiconductor equipment manufacturing, vacuum component installation, or complex electromechanical assembly experience.
- Familiarity with Lean, 6S, and continuous-improvement practices.
Physical Requirements & Environment
- Onsite Environment: This position requires 100% onsite presence across classroom, laboratory, and manufacturing floor settings.
- Physical Activity: Work includes leading hands-on demonstrations and observing employees in active manufacturing areas; physical demands depend on assigned activities.
- Safety & PPE: Follow applicable manufacturing, laboratory, and cleanroom safety requirements and wear appropriate protective equipment when required.
- Quality: Reinforce approved workmanship, standard work, safety, quality, and 6S procedures during instruction and coaching.
- Travel: Not specified.
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