Training Manager

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Georgia-Pacific's Foodservice Solutions division is seeking a Training Manager to support workforce development and training execution at our manufacturing facility in Janesville, Wisconsin. This position will help facilitate the plant-level training process, maintain training curriculum, track employee skill progression, and partner with plant leadership, department managers, supervisors, and trainers to ensure employees are developing appropriately before being released into roles independently.

The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting a more structured and consistent training process for the facility. This includes supporting new hire training, role-specific training, on-the-job training, standard practices training, and continued development for employees across the plant.

This individual will be based out of the Janesville, Wisconsin facility.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific Foodservice Solutions division operates four facilities that produce plastic packaging products under the Anchor Packaging and Panoramic brand names. Three facilities are located in northeast Arkansas (Jonesboro, Paragould, and Marmaduke) and one is in Janesville, WI. These manufacturing locations support the supermarket, foodservice, retail, and food processing industries through the production of high-quality rigid containers, sheet, and related packaging products.

The Janesville, WI facility is focused on building capability across the workforce through structured training, consistent standards, and continued investment in employee development.

What You Will Do

• Execute the plant-level training process in alignment with the broader training strategy and organizational direction.
• Facilitate and maintain training curriculum, skill matrices, task sign-offs, and certification records for plant roles.
• Partner with department managers to understand role expectations, training priorities, and skill gaps within their areas.
• Support new hire onboarding.
• Help ensure employees are progressing appropriately before being released into roles independently.
• Maintain visibility to employee training status, readiness concerns, and retraining needs.
• Work with supervisors and leads to reinforce standards after employees are released to the floor.
• Identify barriers in the training process and escalate gaps, concerns, or resource needs to plant leadership.
• Support a culture of continuous improvement, employee development, and workforce investment.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in a manufacturing, industrial, training, operations, or leadership role
• Experience supporting or leading employee training, onboarding, skill development, or process standardization
• Experience working with supervisors, department leaders, or cross-functional teams to execute plant priorities
• Ability to organize training records, track progression, and follow up on open items

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience developing or maintaining training curriculum, skill matrices, certification processes, or standard work
• Experience in thermoforming, sheet extrusion, packaging, or plastics manufacturing
• Experience coaching trainers or supporting on-the-job training processes
• Experience using systems such as SAP, learning management systems, or other platforms used for training, documentation, or employee records

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

As a Koch company and leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 300,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.


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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.


Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

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