Learning and Organizational Development Specialist (Advanced Manufacturing)

Location: Torrance, California, United States; primarily onsite in an office and active manufacturing environment. Occasional travel between company locations and schedule flexibility for multiple manufacturing shifts may be required. Candidates must be able to lawfully access information and technology subject to US export controls and be eligible to work in the United States.

Salary: $94,610–$130,090 USD per year.

Company

Divergent develops integrated engineering and manufacturing solutions for automotive, aerospace, and defense customers.

What you will do

• Partner with manufacturing leaders, subject-matter experts, People partners, and employees to diagnose capability needs and recommend learning or performance interventions.
• Design role-based learning architectures, curricula, pathways, qualification plans, assessments, and reinforcement activities.
• Create technical and professional learning materials, including design documents, storyboards, facilitator guides, learner content, assessments, and digital learning experiences.
• Analyze LMS and workforce data covering participation, completion, proficiency, time-to-competency, recertification, and adoption trends.
• Maintain LMS data quality, reporting logic, assignments, curricula, completion rules, equivalencies, and assessment data.
• Lead learning pilots and projects, facilitate workshops and train-the-trainer sessions, and develop reusable standards, templates, playbooks, and operating procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in instructional design, learning sciences, organizational development, human resources, education, business, analytics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least five years of progressive experience in learning and development, organizational development, instructional design, learning experience design, or a related discipline.
• Experience with needs analysis, performance outcomes, curriculum or learning-pathway design, assessment development, and learning-effectiveness evaluation.
• Working knowledge of adult-learning theory, instructional-design models, facilitation, accessibility, and blended learning.
• Experience administering learning programs and working with LMS data, structured datasets, advanced spreadsheet functions, data cleaning, reconciliation, analysis, and visualization.
• Ability to work onsite in an office and manufacturing environment and to lawfully access US export-controlled information and technology.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting advanced manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, engineering, production, quality, supply chain, or another technical operating environment.
• Experience with technical training, structured on-the-job training, qualification or certification programs, competency models, or role-based academies.
• Experience with SCORM, xAPI, learning record stores, LMS integrations, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, or learning-content governance.
• Certification in learning and development, instructional design, facilitation, project management, change management, or analytics.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, dynamic, high-performing, and mission-driven manufacturing environment.
• Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, and a year-end shutdown.
• Paid parental leave and comprehensive HMO and Premium PPO health benefits.
• Company-sponsored life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Equity plan, discretionary results-based incentive opportunities, and reimbursement for learning and development initiatives.