Safety Training Specialist

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.

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re driven by something more.

Our journey is always people first.

We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.

Higher purpose, greater impact.

We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it’s not only good for our business, it’s the right thing to do.  

Scale up, not starting up.

Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet. We’re driven to scale; we’re moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.

Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit  www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

Motional AD Inc. is an EOE. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To comply with Federal Law, we participate in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are queried through this electronic system established by the DHS and the SSA to verify their identity and employment eligibility.