JE Dunn Construction
Instructional Design Manager
🇺🇸 Kansas City, MO
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Instructional Design
🗓️ December 3rd, 2025
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JE Dunn Construction is hiring an Instructional Design Manager. The role leads the development of diverse learning materials by collaborating with business leaders and regional L&D teams, establishes best practices for content, and ensures strategic alignment with organizational goals while managing vendor partnerships and incorporating innovative technologies.
Highlights
- Lead creation of engaging learning materials using various delivery methods including eLearning and instructor-led training.
- Align learning content with company goals and address needs of diverse employee populations.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for the Learning and Development team in instructional design.
- Design assessment frameworks to measure learning outcomes and report results to leadership.
- Manage external instructional design vendors to ensure timely and quality deliverables.
- Integrate latest learning technologies and best practices into corporate playbooks.
- Conduct needs assessments and gap analyses for workforce groups ranging from trade labor to senior leadership.
- Partner with regional HR and L&D to customize training for functional and regional requirements.
- Required skills include proficiency with Articulate Storyline, Rise, Adobe Creative Suite, LMS best practices, and MS Office.
- Education requirement: Bachelor’s in Education, Communications, Business Admin or related field; Master’s preferred. Experience: 8+ years in learning design, preferably in construction.
Instructional Design Manager Full Description
Instructional Design Manager
Location: Kansas City, MO, US, 64106
Best People + Right Culture. These are the driving forces behind JE Dunn’s success.
By hiring inspired people, giving them interesting and challenging work, enabling them with innovative tools, and letting them share in the company’s rewards, we’ve found a sustainable way to grow in our industry for the last 100+ years.
Our diverse teams around the country strive to enrich lives through inspired people and places everyday, and we need inspired people like you to join us in our pursuit of building perfection.
Role Summary
The Instructional Design Manager will lead the creation of learning materials with a hands-on approach incorporating feedback from business leadership and regionally focused L&D team members. This position will also establish best practices and structure for both internally developed and externally sourced content to best meet the needs of diverse populations. All activities will be performed in support of the strategy, vision and values of JE Dunn.
By hiring inspired people, giving them interesting and challenging work, enabling them with innovative tools, and letting them share in the company’s rewards, we’ve found a sustainable way to grow in our industry for the last 100+ years.
Our diverse teams around the country strive to enrich lives through inspired people and places everyday, and we need inspired people like you to join us in our pursuit of building perfection.
Role Summary
The Instructional Design Manager will lead the creation of learning materials with a hands-on approach incorporating feedback from business leadership and regionally focused L&D team members. This position will also establish best practices and structure for both internally developed and externally sourced content to best meet the needs of diverse populations. All activities will be performed in support of the strategy, vision and values of JE Dunn.
- Autonomy & Decision Making: Makes decisions on non-routine matters, provides recommendations to supervisor, and refers all exceptions to supervisor.
- Career Path: Senior Instructional Design Manager
Key Role Responsibilities - Core
- Leads the alignment of learning content with organizational goals, creating engaging materials across a variety of delivery methods (eLearning, instructor-led training, microlearning, audio/visual, etc.)
- Identifies best learning methods for various employee populations, creating focused and highly applicable programs while maintaining efficient utilization of company resources
- Supports the broader Learning and Development team as subject matter expert in learning content creation and design
- Creates an assessment framework to measure learning outcomes across all delivery methods and various employee populations, communicates results to leadership
- Manages outside instructional design vendors, ensuring deliverable timelines are met and materials are in-line with expectations
- Evaluates and integrates latest technologies and best practices into playbooks for use by other functional areas of the business
- Leads large, cross-functional and highly visible projects through the entire project life cycle from initiation to end of life
- Supports needs assessment and gap analysis of diverse employee populations including trade labor, professional staff, management and senior leadership, providing recommendations and resources to address identified needs
- Partners with regional HR and L&D leaders to identify and implement modified or entirely unique learning materials and content for specific functional or regional needs
Key Role Responsibilities - Additional Core
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Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Ability to perform work accurately and completely, and in a timely manner
- Communication skills, verbal and written – Intermediate
- Knowledge of Learning Management System best practices
- Experience with authoring tools (Articulate Storyline, Rise, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.) – Intermediate
- Ability to synthesize feedback from a variety of sources into existing programs
- Ability to conduct effective presentations
- Proficiency in MS Office - Intermediate
- Ability to build relationships and collaborate within a team, internally and externally
- Ability to build relationships with team members that transcend a project
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Education, Communications, Business Administration or a related field (Required)
- Master’s degree in Education, with an emphasis in adult education or curriculum design (Preferred)
- In lieu of the above requirements, equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
Experience
- 8+ years’ experience with designing, implementing or evaluating learning materials, preferably within the construction industry (Preferred)
Working Environment
- Must be able to lift up to 10 pounds
- May require periods of travel
- Must be willing to work non-traditional hours to meet business needs
- Normal office environment
- Frequent activity: Sitting, Viewing Computer Screen
- Occasional activity: Standing, Walking, Bending, Climbing, Reaching above Shoulder, Pushing, Pulling
Benefits Information
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This role is expected to accept applications for at least three business days and may continue to be posted until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.
JE Dunn Construction is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and it is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected category. JE Dunn Construction is a background screening, drug-free workplace.
JE Dunn provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for a job, please submit your request to accommodations@jedunn.com
JE Dunn Construction Company does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or agencies. Any resume submitted to any employee of JE Dunn Construction without a prior written search agreement will be considered unsolicited and the property of JE Dunn Construction Company. Please, no phone calls or emails.
Why People Work Here
At JE Dunn we offer our employees an inspired place to enrich their life and the lives of those around them
Building on our rich history, our employee owners are shaping the future of JE Dunn. In our team-focused environment we do life together and are generously rewarded for our efforts
At JE Dunn we offer our employees an inspired place to enrich their life and the lives of those around them
Building on our rich history, our employee owners are shaping the future of JE Dunn. In our team-focused environment we do life together and are generously rewarded for our efforts
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