Manager Learning and Development

Title: Manager Learning and Development

Location: Kennewick, WA

Job Requisition ID: Req-260589

Time Type: Full time

About Lamb Weston

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, and public Fortune 500 company, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.

A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

Job Description Summary

The Plant Learning & Development Manager, a member of the Lamb Weston Learning and Development team, implements learning strategies and execution across multiple manufacturing facilities, building workforce capability. This role ensures effective training programs are delivered with content that aligns with the needs of Manufacturing.

The L&D Manager partners closely with plant leadership, HR, Operations, Safety, and Quality teams to develop leaders and team members, support compliance and drive continuous improvement.

Job Description

• Creates plant Learning and Development strategies, supporting seven Manufacturing facilities.
• Provides direct oversight, coaching and development of Learning & Development Specialists in each plant.
• Develops & implements impactful Learning & Development content that addresses business needs, priorities, and objectives.
• Ensures consistent, high quality technical and operational training across facilities.
• Facilitates dynamic, learner-centered training sessions providing engaging learning experiences.
• Creates training material to ensure team members have the required competency development to excel in their role.
• Confirms training material aligns with operating processes, procedures, and systems.
• Works with local and enterprise stakeholders to coordinate and organize training sessions.
• Ensures training programs and documentation meet food safety, regulatory and internal compliance standards.
• Monitors training effectiveness by collecting feedback and measuring results in order to continually improve course content and facilitation.
• Ensures training is scalable and effective by conducting train-the-trainer sessions and supporting materials.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Role Competencies

• Organizational awareness/understanding – maintains the requisite level of organizational understanding required in the role.
• Innovation/Innovative thinking – creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful. Uses creative thinking to propose or initiate new ideas, methods, ways of working, processes. products, etc.
• Learning mindset - has the desire and exhibits effort for improving professional skills and competencies. 
• Customer focus - ability to build and maintain customer-focused relationships based on the delivery of a service, product or value. Prioritizes and takes action on the needs of customers. Designs and delivers products and services with the customer experience top of mind.
• Functional communication - ability to state ideas clearly and apply effective communication and listening skills.
• Information management/organization - identifies and applies role-based information needs for projects, contacts, tasks, etc.
• Business process/Function expertise - end-to-end knowledge and expertise in the team member's functional areas of responsibility.
• Team leadership - influences and coordinates the actions of a group in order to bring about effective results over time.
• People advocacy - creates a strong internal culture, gets the best out of people, acts as a trusted champion and communicator.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in education, Organizational Development, Human Resources, Operations, or related field, or equivalent experience required.
• 3+ years of experience in Learning & Development or training within a manufacturing environment required - food manufacturing preferred.
• Experience building and leading teams across multiple locations is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of technical and operational training in manufacturing settings.
• Demonstrated leadership and coaching skills.
• Developing strong stakeholder relationships.

• Background in food manufacturing environments with GMPs, HACCP, SQF, or similar standards preferred.
• Familiarity with learning management systems (LMS) and training analytics is helpful but not required.
• Experience supporting union and non‑union workforces preferred.

Work Environment

• Regular travel to manufacturing facilities within the region (approximately 50–60%).
• Combination of office, plant floor, and remote work.

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive.  Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision

• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts

• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program

• Paid Time Off

• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance

• Family-Friendly Employee events

• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Anticipated Close Date

The anticipated close date is a good faith estimate for when this job will be closed. Some jobs may be unposted or filled earlier or later than the Anticipated Close Date depending on interview processes and business needs.

Anticipated Close Date: 06/28/2026

Pay Transparency

In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate's work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role is listed below.

Pay Rate or Range: $101,730.00 - $152,600.00

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law