Training Specialist - Military Veterans
at Amentum
This position on the METRO Program Management Office (PMO) is responsible for planning, and coordinating the training, professional development, communication, and engagement activities for the program workforce.
Training and Professional Development:
- Identifies individual skills gaps, assesses workforce-training needs, and assists in developing training initiatives to supplement Sponsor-provided training.
- Continually modifies and improves existing courses to ensure training needs are met.
- Collects and reports metrics on training programs and other initiatives.
- Collaborates with Training Team colleagues and PMO management to co-lead monthly brown bag events and the mentoring program.
Communication and Engagement:
- Contributes to communication deliverables that reach across the program, to include the monthly newsletter.
- Ensures the portal provides consistent, accurate, updated, and useful information to all stakeholders.
- Establishes additional communication channels and cadence for specific stakeholders across the program as needed.
- Oversees event planning for town halls, all hands, monthly meet-and-greets, and training/learning events to include drafting speech/presentation content, sending invitations, securing facilities, and other logistics.
- Seeks every opportunity to interact with the workforce and customers to control messaging, assess needs, and to report findings to the Lead Training Manager, the Program Manager (PM), and the Deputy Program Manager (D/PM).
Data and Reporting:
- Helps the Training Team to update the CDRL-003 Training Plan every six months for the customer.
- Develops methods to survey and evaluate effectiveness of training provided.
- Oversees data input (high and low side) to maintain accurate records on the workforce.
- Conducts analysis of data for reporting and implementing any changes or improvements.
Strong programmatic, interpersonal and communication skills required:
- Reports directly to the Lead Training Manager, and indirectly to the PM and D/PM.
- Collaborates with Training Team colleagues and other PMO colleagues (e.g. Lead Staffing Manager, Staffing Coordinators, and Chief/Project Leads).
- Works closely with Project Leads to offer mentoring and/or one-on-one tutorial solutions for any contractor identified as having performance issues.
- Works closely with PMO colleagues and Project Leads to implement a way to educate Sponsor managers on program processes and best practices across the program.
- In tandem with PMO leadership, creates and implements a Talent Retention Plan (to include the collection and analysis of data from stay and exit interviews, 90-day and post-training surveys, etc.).
Required qualifications:
- A minimum of five (5) years Sponsor experience as a staff or contract employee, with direct knowledge of the directorate-specific LCAT roles and responsibilities.
- Advanced knowledge of principles and methods for creating training curriculum, course design and instruction, ideally with experience teaching tradecraft unique to the Sponsor.
- Well-developed oral, written, presentation and group facilitation skills.
- Ability to diagnose training needs and provide the appropriate training methods and programs.
- Strong planning and organizational skills.
Desired qualifications:
- Ability to operate with minimal direction while coordinating with PMO colleagues/leadership.
- A robust network across the customer space, especially with tradecraft-training experts.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Previous training experience.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to mentor and coach others.
Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran's status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.
Labor Law Posters
EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans
Falls Church, VA
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Amentum brings industry-best expertise, processes, and technology to ensure the availability and reliability of our Government and commercial clients’ vital facilities and equipment. We apply our culture of excellence to operate, maintain, and manage your global assets and complex supply chains to meet modern challenges at home and abroad. You get the confidence that comes from a partner with on a century-long heritage of unrelenting dedication to our clients’ missions across the DoD, civilian agencies, and the IC.
We are looking for skilled Veterans interested in continuing your career in aviation, global logistics, IT and Network support, and also unmanned systems.
We currently have positions open nationwide and globally to include: Kuwait, Iraq, and other overseas locations!
Amentum’s skilled workforce lives with outcomes rather than just works on them. Our employees hold the most sought-after certifications in the industry, including Program Management Professional (PMP), IT/Cyber, ITIL, and Professional Scrum Master (PSM). Our teams who maintain and modify vehicles, aircraft, and weapons systems work within disciplined environments certified to AS9001D, ISO 9001:2015, AS9110B, and AS9100C standards.
Whether it’s managing facilities supporting the IC’s classified missions, operating UAVs that protect our soldiers, or maintaining military equipment at remote bases abroad, Amentum has the experience, passion, and commitment to meet your critical needs.
What happens after I apply?
First, you will want to ensure your RecruitMilitary profile is up to date, and you also have the most up to date resume to provide. Once you apply for the role you will be re-directed to complete your employment application on Amentum's career site. Once you complete that application a recruiter will review your skills and qualifications and reach out to you about the role as appropriate.