Lead, Learning and Development Fossil & Corporate

he Learning & Development team partners with Plant Operations to build workforce capability strengthen safety culture and support safe reliable power generation. As a working team lead with direct reports you will guide learning professionals while personally assessing designing delivering and evaluating technical safety and regulatory learning solutions across operating locations.

How Youll Power the Future

At Talen Energy your work directly supports safe reliable power this role youll drive meaningful change by:

People Leadership and Team Development

Supervise coach develop and evaluate assigned learning and development staff; set expectations and provide performance feedback.

Prioritize team workloads monitor quality and capacity and provide instructional design guidance and review.

Build team capability accountability and consistent learning standards; identify staffing and vendor needs.

Strategic Learning Partnership and Needs Assessment

Partner with Plant Operations and Corporate leaders to assess current and emerging capability gaps performance challenges and training priorities.

Align learning plans with operational readiness workforce planning knowledge transfer and changing technology equipment procedures and regulatory requirements.

Instructional Design and Training Development

Design develop deliver and improve technical operational safety compliance and employee development training.

Apply adult learning principles across instructor-led digital blended and on-the-job learning; translate complex content with subject matter experts.

Create assessments videos job aids facilitator guides and train-the-trainer programs using AI and automation where appropriate.

Safety Culture and Safety Training

Partner with plant leaders and Environmental Health & Safety to reinforce a proactive safety culture.

Develop and maintain learning on hazard recognition risk awareness safe work practices and accountability incorporating lessons from incidents near misses observations and procedure changes.

Support employee and contractor safety onboarding and refreshers; collaborate with course owners to keep content current.

NERC and Regulatory Training Support

Partner with NERC Compliance Plant Operations and technical experts across applicable business units to develop and maintain regulatory learning content.

Translate approved requirements into instruction aligned with applicable standards company policies and operating procedures.

Training Solutions Governance and Effectiveness

Evaluate internal development versus external providers vendors and learning technologies based on business need quality cost and outcomes.

Coordinate external training and evaluate vendor performance and resource effectiveness.

Establish training intake prioritization design delivery evaluation maintenance and content review processes.

Lead concurrent initiatives across locations; partner with course owners learning systems administrators and Corporate Learning & Development on platform-ready content and consistent standards.

Measure quality participation proficiency and effectiveness; communicate priorities results and improvements to stakeholders.

What You Have

Minimum Requirements

Bachelors degree in Learning & Development Instructional Design Education Human Resources Organizational Development Engineering or related field or equivalent education and experience.

Eight or more years of progressive learning and development experience must have instructional design expertise or technical training and supervising coaching or leading training professionals.

Experience conducting needs assessments and developing instructor-led digital and blended learning programs.

Experience consulting with business leaders and using learning management systems and instructional design technologies.

Strong project leadership communication stakeholder engagement analytical and cross-functional coordination skills.

Ability to travel periodically to operating facilities and work in plant environments while following safety requirements.

Ability to meet nuclear plant background and security clearance requirements where applicable.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in power generation utilities energy manufacturing or other industrial environments.

Experience developing technical operational safety or regulatory training.

Familiarity with NERC Reliability Standards Critical Infrastructure Protection training and other regulatory obligations.

Knowledge of OSHA requirements industrial safety practices safety management systems and EHS partnerships.

Experience with competency-based training knowledge transfer outsourced learning solutions video production and AI-enabled learning tools.

Professional certification in learning and development instructional design project management or related discipline.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

Business acumen and ability to align learning with operational objectives and influence without formal authority.

Instructional design facilitation performance consulting and ability to translate complex technical information.

Analytical organizational project management written verbal presentation and interpersonal skills.

Ability to balance strategic consultation with hands-on execution staff development and workload management.

Key Measures of Success

Training priorities aligned with operational and workforce needs; timely delivery of effective programs.

Improved employee knowledge skills and proficiency; accurate and current safety and regulatory content.

Stakeholder satisfaction cost effectiveness and continuous improvement in learning processes and outcomes.

Additional Requirements

Ability to travel to field/corporate sites as needed. Other duties as assigned consistent with the responsibilities of the position.

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