Instructor-Led Training Specialist: Program Designer/Coordinator

Description

Sargent & Lundy is forming a new team within the Training & Development group. This team will complement our existing Instructional Design and Training Implementation teams, providing dedicated support to internal and external instructor-led training initiatives for our Nuclear Power Group.

In this position, you’ll act as a client-facing learning consultant who partners closely with subject-matter specialists to uncover needs, define performance and learning objectives, design solutions that solve business problems, oversee development, and coordinate implementation. You’ll apply your expertise in how people learn to create strategic, programmatic solutions that enable your audiences to continuously develop their skills and perform confidently on the job. Solutions will primarily involve instructor-led training, but may also blend interactive labs, on-demand resources, coaching guides, and other modalities. Your work will target two primary learner audiences: 1) S&L personnel within NPG engineering and design disciplines and 2) S&L’s external clients within the nuclear industry.  

Typical Activities Include:  
- Learning Needs Analysis

- Leading intake/scoping calls, workshops, focus groups, and other analysis activities to uncover and define training problems, audience profiles, performance objectives, learning objectives, and other key insights that will shape solution design.

- Using analysis frameworks (like tasks/skills analysis, critical mistakes analysis, journey maps, etc.) to structure analysis activities and document insights.

- Summarizing and clearly articulating key insights in client-facing reports and presentations.

- Performing activities that help you develop a deep understanding of NPG and your learner audiences.

- Program Design

- Designing strategic and achievable learning solution proposals (e.g., high-level designs, curriculum maps, course outlines) that define how to address the problems and objectives identified during analysis (i.e., define modalities, duration/scope, sequencing, instructional strategies and archetypes, etc.).

- Mapping connections, scaffolding, and key themes across programs/courses. Designing solutions that fit seamlessly within the larger training framework.

- Designing meaningful activities and practical exercises that align with learning objectives, promote engagement/retention, and simulate realistic tasks.  

- Leveraging available technology and equipment (e.g., MS Teams meeting features, lab equipment) in course designs to enhance interactivity where appropriate.   

- Designing evaluation plans and measures to assess training effectiveness. 

- Developing and presenting client-facing presentations that clearly communicate the core elements of the solution proposal.

- Partnering with Training team leadership to define activity archetypes and create playbooks that enable consistent ILT design/development at scale.

- Program Coordination

- Overseeing successful and sustainable program implementation.

- Aligning and coordinating cross-team parties, such as implementation admins, facilitators, and other stakeholders.

- Identifying and mitigating risks and error traps in execution.

- Collaboration, Consulting, and Continuous Improvement

- Leading workshops with internal and external stakeholders to collaboratively work through analysis and design.

- Guiding project team members to align solutions with instructional best practices.

- Providing clear handoffs to Training team members who may own specific detailed design, development, and implementation activities. Collaborating with them to ensure alignment with the solution vision.

- Gathering and implementing feedback from Training & Development group peers, NPG stakeholders and subject-matter specialists, external clients, and learner audiences (via deliverable reviews, interviews, focus groups, surveys, etc.).  

- Synthesizing and analyzing data to