Training Specialist, Welding

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. By combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, ships, and other mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost.

• Experience in multiple welding disciplines, including TIG (GTAW), MIG (GMAW) and mechanized welding

• 3+ years in a training, instructing or teaching role focused on entry-level individual contributors

• At least 1 year welding in a production environment

• Proven ability to train people from entry level to mid level to weld to a written standard

• Openness to learning new processes and methods, and to reteaching as they change

• Comfort working with software to record training, evaluations and qualifications

• Experience maintaining training documentation to an audit-ready standard

• Ability to recognize patterns in how people learn and give objective, actionable recommendations to leadership

• A self-starter who manages their own time and priorities with minimal oversight

• Willingness to travel around 25%, primarily to our Los Angeles facility for training purposes

• Experience welding or training to NAVSEA standards

• Experience with robotic welding; this can be learned and trained in role

• Welding certifications such as AWS Certified Welder, Certified Welding Educator or Certified Welding Inspector

• Experience building welding curriculum or training documentation from the ground up

• Ability to influence without direct authority

• Comfort representing a company in front of a customer

• High emotional intelligence; improves on feedback and coaches others

• Passion for training, career development and Hadrian's mission of reindustrializing the nation's workforce

• Surgical Precision: welds, evaluations, records and documentation have to be exact.

• Own the Outcome: you own the training outcome at your site and meet the intent of the standard.

• Build, Edit, Scale: our welding curriculum is moving from pilot to scale, and you will help refine it.

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