Career Area:
Operations
Job Description:
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Job Title: Facility Trainer
Salary: £40,900
Contract: Full time & permanent - multi shift
Location: Stockton-Upon-Tees
The Opportunity
Are you passionate about developing people and building safe, capable and high‑performing manufacturing teams? Join our Stockton facility as a Facility Trainer, where you’ll play a key role in delivering, developing and embedding training that supports safety, lean principles and operational excellence across the site.
Working closely with operations, Health & Safety and leadership teams, you will help ensure employees have the skills, knowledge and behaviours needed to work safely, consistently and effectively.
As a Facility Trainer, you are accountable for, but not limited to:
Develop and deliver effective safety, job instructional and simulated environment training, including inductions for new starters, to ensure employees are prepared for their roles.
Create, review and continuously improve training materials and programmes, including the integration of foundational Lean principles to support consistent and effective learning.
Provide one‑to‑one and team‑based coaching to reinforce learning, promote safety best practice and support capability development, including apprentices and developing employees.
Support leadership teams with improvement and project activities, including contributing to Rapid Improvement workshops and reinforcing Lean ways of working across the facility.
Monitor, analyse and review training data and records to identify skill gaps, training needs and compliance risks, ensuring training processes meet required standards, particularly for new starters.
Work collaboratively across departments, with Health & Safety and external training providers, and communicate confidently with employees at all levels to support training delivery and site initiatives.
NB. The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined.
What You Can Demonstrate:
Training & Coaching: Delivers engaging training and provides hands‑on coaching that enables safe working, effective learning application and capability development.
Attention to Detail: Maintains accurate training records and monitors training activity to ensure alignment with safety, legal and company requirements.
Effective Communication: Communicates clearly and confidently with employees, leaders and support teams to coordinate training, reinforce expectations and drive engagement across the facility.
Continuous Improvement: Applies knowledge of Lean and continuous improvement principles to embed better ways of working and support ongoing site improvements.
What You May Have:
Train‑the‑Trainer Qualification: Supports structured, engaging training delivery and consistent standards across classroom and shop‑floor learning.
IOSH Managing Safely Qualification: Supporting the embedding of safe working practices through training and reinforcing safety‑first behaviours (e.g. IOSH or equivalent).
Manufacturing Environment Awareness: Allowing training to reflect real shop‑floor activities, making learning practical, relevant and immediately applicable.
Continuous Improvement Exposure: Helping apply Lean or CI principles to improve training effectiveness and support better ways of working.
Pending the number of applications, the criteria for the position may be enhanced to facilitate shortlisting.
Just a quick heads-up: We start reviewing applications as soon as they come in, so if you’re interested, don’t wait too long! We may close the advert early if we feel we’ve got a strong pool of potentially suitable applicants.
Don’t miss out, get your application in soon!
What You Will Get
One Company, Limitless Opportunities
Caterpillar is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. We do business on every continent, principally operating through three primary segments – Construction Industries, Resource Industries, and Energy & Transportation – and providing financing and related services through our Financial Products segment.
Careers at Caterpillar are limitless, we have opportunities in Engineering, Human Resources, Manufacturing, Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain and so much more. You can create the career you want. It’s your time and talent, make it count.
Our Sustainability Commitment
Caterpillar has a long-standing commitment to sustainability, one of our five Values in Action. It is part of who we are and what we do. We actively lead sustainable green initiatives to preserve the environment, help reduce poverty with the Caterpillar Foundation and stay involved in the communities we help build.
Benefits: 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, opportunity to buy additional holiday, 3.5% Bonus, contributory pension scheme - Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution up to 10%, contributory share scheme - Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution, Employee Support Networks – join groups that offer support, connection, and a sense of community, optional flexible benefits including access to private health and dental care plans, EV car lease etc
Travel: up to 10% travel
Posting Dates:
July 20, 2026 - August 7, 2026
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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