Distribution Center Training Specialist - Lithia Springs, Georgia, , United States

As a Distribution Center Training Specialist, you would collaborate with Operations leadership and teams to increase the knowledge, skills, and capabilities of employees across all key distribution center roles. This role designs, facilitates, and governs operational and leadersh ...

Job description

As a Distribution Center Training Specialist, you would collaborate with Operations leadership and teams to increase the knowledge, skills, and capabilities of employees across all key distribution center roles. This role designs, facilitates, and governs operational and leadership training programs aligned to company values, goals, and performance expectations. Through formal needs assessments, observation, and data analysis, the role identifies performance gaps, evaluates training effectiveness, and recommends targeted individual and group development activities. In addition to hands-on facilitation, the Operations Training Supervisor is responsible for modernizing, standardizing, and sustaining the Distribution Center's Training & Development system. This includes ownership of training materials, SOPs, and SharePoint libraries, ensuring clear documentation control, consistency, and a single source of truth. The role participates in Continuous Improvement initiatives to support, document, and sustain change and holds authority over training standards, programs, and documentation.

Schedule shift:

Monday through Friday 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Identify and assess the training needs of the warehouse through job analysis, review of safety needs, performance against standards and consultation with managers.
• Collaborate with Operations Leadership to design, develop, and deliver training content, training materials, training modules, and teaching aids, as needed; including coordinating training on facility-wide subjects.
• Manage the updating of existing training media: PPTs, Training Aids, SOPs, Lucid Charts, SharePoint sites, etc.
•  Data gathering and testing on Continuous Improvement Initiatives:  Time Studies, Root Cause Analysis, Job Shadowing, etc.

Required Skill:

• Excellent communication, verbal and written; as well as interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively listen and communicate complex information in a clear and concise manner.
• Outstanding organization, time management and the ability to facilitate productive meetings and training sessions to small and large groups.
• Results oriented, motivated and ability to multi-task to drive simultaneous projects.
• Proficient working with a variety of subject matter such as technical, non-technical, soft skills training, etc. in a variety of contact center applications.
• Flexible: ably navigates within ambiguity; solution oriented.
• Microsoft Office: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Forms, Stream, SharePoint, OneDrive, OneNote.
• Excellent coaching and mentoring skills. Assess employees' skills, talents, performance, productivity and prepare written evaluations with advice for improvement.
• Familiarity with traditional and modern training methods (mentoring, coaching, on-the-job or in classroom training, e-learning, workshops, simulations etc).
• Facilitate powered industrial equipment classroom training
• Develop leadership training programs (non-disciplinary

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, and talk or hear. 
• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. 
• The employee must repeatedly lift, push, and/or pull up to 25 pounds.
• The distribution center is subject to loud noise levels due to mechanical equipment.
• The distribution center is subject to moderate noise levels due to business office equipment (printers and computers).

PLENTY OF BENEFITS TOO

UA BRANDS offers a full range of benefits, allowing you the opportunity to customize a benefits package that addresses both your health and financial needs.

• Flexible scheduling
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Pharmacy Coverage
• Life/AD&D Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program – support for everyday challenges
• Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching - Save for your future
• Short & Long Term Disability – Company Paid
• Accident, Hospital Care and Critical Illness Insurance – Protect your Income
• Holiday Pay
• Paid Time Off – Life Balance
• Volunteer Time Off – Make an Impact
• Employee Discount Program
• Referral Program - Get paid to work with Friends
• Free work "uniform" tops provided
• Regular Social Activities and Events – Mandatory Fun
• See more of the benefits we offer

UA is an Equal Opportunity Employer

As an employee of any UA Brands division, you will be part of an established and dynamic organization. We believe that success starts from within, and we are seeking individuals who thrive in an environment that encourages and supports self-management. To provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at UA Brands will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. UA Brands does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. UA Brands will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in undue hardship. 

We are a Drug-Free Workplace.
Our distribution center is located at 777 Douglas Hill Road, Suite 100, Lithia Springs, GA 30122; we are NOT on the Marta line.