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Loram Maintenance of Way, Inc.

Learning and Development Specialist

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Hamel, MN

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Learning & Development

🗓️ August 28th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Loram is hiring a Learning and Development Specialist. The role involves assessing performance gaps and designing learning programs to improve behaviors, competencies, and performance through various methodologies. The specialist manages learning projects, collaborates with internal and external partners, and measures the impact of development initiatives.

Highlights
  • Manage project activities, mitigate risks, and ensure timely completion of learning deliverables.
  • Translate developmental requirements into learning objectives to enhance employee competencies.
  • Create instructional materials such as handouts, videos, and manuals in partnership with instructional designers.
  • Conduct data analysis to recommend relevant content for organizational learning.
  • Integrate internal and external content to meet organizational and regulatory needs.
  • Coordinate with external providers, contractors, and internal partners for content delivery and feedback.
  • Monitor and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of structured learning experiences.
  • Develop and execute communication plans to support development initiatives.
  • Collaborate within the Learning and Development team to improve content and share best practices.
  • Support change management activities including communication, training, and stakeholder engagement.

Learning and Development Specialist Full Description

Learning and Development Specialist

Job Category: Corporate
Location: Hamel, MN, US
Job Title: Learning and Development Specialist
FLSA Status:  Exempt
Department: Human Resources – 7520

Reports to: Manager, Learning and Development

Flex Work Eligible! This position qualifies for the Flexible Work Policy. Employees receive 75 workdays annually to work remote! The initial amount of days is prorated for the first year based on start date. 

GENERAL DESCRIPTION / PURPOSE:
Reporting to the Manager of Learning and Development, the Learning and Development Specialist is responsible for assessing and evaluating identified performance gaps to determine people and/or process issues and define efficient and effective approaches to fill the gaps. This role will also develop continuous learning methodologies for measurable behavioral and performance changes and participate in strategy and development of performance improvement programs, including deliverables and measurements. Additionally, the Learning and Development Specialist will measurably improve behaviors, performance, and competencies utilizing assessments and designing development programs applying multiple methodologies in order to achieve defined results for client groups.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Functional and Technical Skills
  • Manage project activities, mitigate risks, manage scope changes, and ensure the completion of phases and deliverables
  • Translate developmental requirements into learning objectives that will enable employees to continuously progress competencies to improve performance and behaviors in current and future positions
  • Produce handouts, videos, instructional materials, aids, and manuals that deliver an engaging learner experience with instructional designers
  • Apply critical thinking skills to conduct data analysis to recommend content development for all levels of the organization
  • Implement integration of relevant content from internal and external content sources to ensure learning meets the needs of the organization and fulfils the regulatory requirements

Customer Support
  • Cultivate and manage external providers, contractors, and internal partner relationships to establish timelines, facilitate content review and feedback, adopt and implement changes, and impact business
  • Manage the delivery of structured learning experiences and monitor and quantify their quality results including providing feedback to stakeholders regarding trainee performance
  • Create and execute communication plans to support the implementation of new and ongoing development initiatives

Strategic and Functional
  • Collaborate to source, develop, enhance, edit, reformat, and validate content by working as an integral member of the Learning and Development team to share best practices and identify opportunities for improvement
  • Identify development needs by evaluating performance and/or process gaps and build learning programs and prepare learning plans
  • Assess learning effectiveness through short-term and long-term measurements and evaluations
  • Support the Learning and Development team with change management plans including communications, trainings, stakeholder engagement, and impact analysis