Director, Technical Training & Qualifications

• Design, stand up, and lead an enterprise COE supporting Power, Sand, and Logistics.
• Establish consistent standards, methodologies, tools, and processes for technical training and qualifications.
• Build scalable programs that support business growth, new facilities, changing technologies, and evolving workforce needs.

• Develop role-based skills matrices and qualification pathways for critical technical roles.
• Establish standards for competency assessment, qualification, certification, refresher training, and requalification.
• Create visibility into who is trained, who is qualified, and where critical capability gaps exist.

• 8+ years of progressive experience in technical training, technical qualifications, workforce development, operations, operational excellence, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience building, scaling, or transforming a technical training or qualification function.
• Experience establishing competency-based technical training, skills matrices, qualification pathways, certification programs, or similar systems.
• Experience in energy, power generation, industrial operations, manufacturing, logistics, mining, field operations, or another technically complex operating environment strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of adult learning, instructional design, and competency-based learning methodologies.
• Experience with Learning Management Systems and learning technologies.
• Strong program management and process-development capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and work across Operations, Operational Excellence, Safety, Engineering, HR, Talent & Culture, and technical subject matter experts.
• Ability to translate complex technical work into scalable and measurable training and qualification programs.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to connect training and qualification outcomes to workforce and operational performance.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

• Location: Austin
• Work Environment: (Office, Field, Shop, Outdoors, etc.)
• Travel: 20%

• →Best People and Team. Great Place to Work , Hire Vets, Top Place to Work For – Austin American Statesman
• →Your Well-Being is a Priority. 100% covered Medical, Dental, and Vision
• →Invest in Your Future. 401K with company match, immediate vesting
• →Relax and Recharge. Paid time off (non-rotational roles), 15+ company paid holidays

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement:
Atlas Energy Solutions is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

This commitment applies to all aspects of employment, including recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, and termination.

Reasonable Accommodation
Atlas Energy Solutions provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and those with pregnancy-related conditions in accordance with applicable law.

Job Disclaimer
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be modified at any time based on business needs.

• Partner with technical subject matter experts to develop practical, role-based training.
• Translate SOPs and standard work into effective training and qualification requirements.
• Build technical onboarding pathways that accelerate employees from hire to qualified performance.
• Determine when programs should be developed internally, with vendors, or through external partners.

• Identify critical technical capabilities and workforce gaps across the organization.
• Build cross-training and multi-skilling strategies that increase qualified bench strength.
• Partner with Workforce Planning and Talent Management to anticipate future technical capability needs.
• Create repeatable ways to capture and transfer critical technical knowledge.

• Lead business-aligned Program Managers supporting Power, Sand, and Logistics.
• Manage the enterprise roadmap for technical training and qualification programs.
• Partner on LMS, learning technology, simulation, digital learning, AI, and other scalable training solutions.
• Establish meaningful measures including time to qualification, qualification coverage, skills gaps, cross-training, training effectiveness, and workforce readiness.

• Other duties as assigned