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1st shift, 40hrs/week. No OT expected at this time.
Located onsite in Orlando, FL but some domestic travel will be required to support other training centers or events. This would be on rare occasions.
Driving farm Machinery and a forklift. All operator certifications will be handled upon successful hire. Most of the driving is to get the equipment off trucks or into the lab areas.
As an Instructor for John Deere located in Orlando, FL you will focus on delivering instructor-led classroom, lab, in-field, and virtual product training to dealers, company employees, and customers.
In addition, you will:
Located onsite in Orlando, FL but some domestic travel will be required to support other training centers or events. This would be on rare occasions.
Driving farm Machinery and a forklift. All operator certifications will be handled upon successful hire. Most of the driving is to get the equipment off trucks or into the lab areas.
As an Instructor for John Deere located in Orlando, FL you will focus on delivering instructor-led classroom, lab, in-field, and virtual product training to dealers, company employees, and customers.
In addition, you will:
- Deliver technical classroom/lab and in-field training - adapting content, training materials, and activities for each class to increase dealership and employee capabilities to diagnose, optimize, sell, or manage various Ag & Turf Equipment.
- Training programs include, but are not limited to products, services, and/or professional skills with heavy emphasis on product features, applications, and product system technologies.
- Be responsible for lab/field/classroom setup, execution, and tear-down of each training event.
- Instructor will present PowerPoint instruction in the classroom and lab activity to diagnose and fix a machine bug for example. Classes are typically 2 days long with 2 classes taught per week. Students are technicians from dealerships throughout the country.
- Monitor course effectiveness using Net Promoter Score data.
- Develop strong relationships with dealers, certified dealer instructors, and field teams to promote and fill classes; ensuring the highest priority training needs are being offered.
- Research training topics to increase subject matter expertise specific to products, machine systems, professional skills, and product applications.
- Work with the platforms & training development to develop & update course materials.
Top Must Haves:
- Willingness to work outside in FL year-round.
- Works well in a team environment.
- Some sort of AG background (worked for a dealer, a grower, equipment background / a tech, AG technology background, or AG educator).
- Strong candidates are those with AG degrees and technicians from dealerships.
What Skills You Need:
- Experience in a training and development areas such as instruction, needs assessments, curriculum development, presentation skills, adult learning theory, and other such related training and development work.
- Ability to use standard desktop load applications such as Microsoft Office as well as department-specific computer programs (i.e Service Advisor 5, CCMS).
- Demonstrated professional communication skills with proven results both written and verbal.
- Demonstrated commitment to lifelong learning with the ability to understand complex systems.
- Ability to travel domestically up to 25%.
What Makes You Stand Out:
- Strong knowledge of Agriculture equipment and/or precision technology.
- 1 or more years of Field experience with regular customer contact, knowledge of dealer/distribution network, and broad product knowledge.
- 1 or more years of factory experience interfacing with design, engineering, and manufacturing.
- 3 or more years as a Field Service Technician.
- 3 or more years as an Agronomist.
- 1 or more years as a Service Manager.
Education:
Ideally, you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:
- Bachelors degree in an Education discipline or Agriculture (AgriBusiness, Communication, Ag Ed, etc.)
*Valid driver’s license required - will need to be able to travel by plane to locations across the US and rent a car.
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