Safety Training Specialist

Motional's Las Vegas office is located less than 10 miles from the Las Vegas strip at 730 E Pilot Road and is home to one of the largest fleets of self-driving vehicles. The city's grid system of roads and being one of America's "smart cities" allows for extensive research and development testing.

Primary Purpose:

The Training Specialist will be a key player in Motional's Operational approach for bringing safe, reliable, and accessible autonomous vehicles to reality. They'll partner with various teams under Autonomous Vehicle Testing, Commercial Operations, and Enterprise Safety. The Training Specialist will be responsible for identifying, creating, improving, and owning the training process and programs within their assigned scope. The training will be a mixture of both in-person classroom as well as online coursework, ranging from new hire training to continuous improvement. They'll be expected to create strong partnerships and become subject matter experts in order to build the best-in-business training for Motional's Operations teams. Their work will help establish compliant, safe, and effective testing practices to ensure a global standardization of training throughout Motional.

Essential Duties:

• Facilitate core curriculum learning programs for a specific business unit using a variety of delivery methods to promote learning transfer
• Provide feedback and recommendations to team managers on training status
• Participate in Curriculum Walk Through and Train-the-Trainer sessions in order to prepare for the new training material - will require shadowing of day-to-day work of employees to help understand roles
• Design and create robust training material, self-identified or assigned
• Assists in the design and development of new learning courses or revisions of current courses on Learning Management Systems (LMS) for training
• Partnering with Motional's Learning and Development organization to ensure standardization in company-wide training practices
• Seeks opportunities to continuously improve training, which may result in higher retention of material
• Administers course evaluations and assigns learner course completions through the LMS
• Builds and sustains working relationships with site leaders (such as supervisors and managers) and colleagues
• Create flexible training that is able to address evolving autonomous challenges through means such as Fault Injection Training and closed-course in-vehicle tests to train dynamically
• Requires flexibility in work schedule
• Domestic travel
• Additional duties as assigned

Qualifications:

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

• Strong safety background and understanding of industry safety standards
• Experience working in the autonomous industry
• Proven record of being able to break down complicated concepts into digestible material
• Strong presentation skills, including building presentation material and public speaking
• Proactive problem solver who can take information and practices and identify gaps and areas of improvement
• Passion for developing training material and a drive to continuously improve content
• Ability to work under strict timelines with competing priorities while still able to deliver excellent results
• At least two (3) years of experience in training/teaching
• Familiarity with continuous improvement methodologies and/or facilitation certification is a plus
• High school diploma or equivalency required with applicable experience; Bachelor's degree preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Strong proficiency in GSuite
• Three (3) years experience of training content creation and/or coaching
• First-hand experience with performance driving, Vehicle Dynamics (limits, lateral and longitudinal stability), and motion controls and motion controller fault injection
• Experience with eLearning authoring tools

Physical Demands

• Able to stand and sit for extended periods of time in an office and/or travel setting.
• Able to operate office equipment such as computers, telephones, printers, etc, for extended periods of time.
• Able to lift between 20-50 lbs of supplies to facilitate learning activities in a classroom setting.
• Able to work in a variety of environments, including but not limited to offices, outdoors, and various climates around the globe.

Working Environment

This role will be working closely with a variety of Operational teams such as Fleet Operations, AV Testing, and Commercial. They'll identify key subject matter experts and regularly schedule meetings to make sure that all content is properly up to date. The Training Specialists will be primarily desk-based, but there will be expectations to go in the autonomous vehicle as well as some travel. They'll have to have a keen eye for process improvement and content creation.

Motional AD LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and we welcome all qualified applicants. All applicants will receive impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or other legally protected status. Motional AD LLC is a Drug-free workplace.