Learning & Development Manager

Learning & Development Manager

The Learning & Development Manager leads company-wide training and professional development for BUILD Renewables' corporate offices and utility-scale solar project sites. Partnering with Human Resources, Safety, Operations, Payroll, Compliance, Legal, and company leadership, this role identifies skill gaps, strengthens employee capabilities, supports career development, and promotes a consistent learning culture. The position also supports registered apprenticeship programs and training related to the Inflation Reduction Act's prevailing-wage and apprenticeship requirements.

Essential Responsibilities

Learning Strategy and Program Development

• Develop and implement a company-wide learning strategy aligned with business goals, workforce needs, and company core values.
• Assess training needs and establish annual priorities, plans, calendars, budgets, and standards across corporate offices and active project sites.
• Design and facilitate instructor-led, virtual, and self-paced leadership, technical, compliance, and professional-development programs.
• Create and maintain practical learning materials, including presentations, facilitator guides, participant resources, job aids, videos, and assessments.
• Coordinate training with internal subject-matter experts, external providers, consultants, and educational partners, ensuring content remains accurate and current.

Apprenticeship and Compliance Training

• Support the company's registered apprenticeship programs in partnership with Human Resources, Payroll, Compliance, Safety, Operations, Legal, and project leadership.
• Develop training and job aids covering prevailing-wage requirements, wage determinations, worker classifications, fringe benefits, apprentice utilization and ratios, certified payroll, timekeeping, recordkeeping, subcontractor responsibilities, and audit readiness.
• Coordinate apprentice onboarding, orientation, related technical instruction, on-the-job learning expectations, progression requirements, and supervisor resources.
• Support tracking of apprentice participation, training hours, competencies, and progression, ensuring records are complete and available for audits or program reviews.
• Communicate program and process updates, corrective actions, and lessons learned; escalate legal, classification, wage-determination, or regulatory-interpretation questions to the appropriate experts.
• Coordinate with apprenticeship committees, educational partners, workforce agencies, and training providers to strengthen apprentice development, retention, mentorship, and advancement.

Leadership, Career Development, and Onboarding

• Develop leadership programs for supervisors, general foremen, superintendents, project managers, and emerging leaders.
• Provide managers with tools and training for coaching, feedback, performance management, documentation, and employee development.
• Support career paths, competency models, succession planning, mentorship, job shadowing, cross-functional development, and individual development plans.
• Maintain consistent onboarding programs and 30-, 60-, and 90-day expectations for corporate, project-management, and field employees.
• Evaluate onboarding and development programs and recommend improvements based on employee, manager, and business feedback.

Learning Systems and Program Administration

• Manage the learning management system, electronic training records, course assignments, schedules, completion tracking, training histories, and reporting.
• Coordinate training across departments, projects, locations, and time zones and follow up on overdue requirements.
• Evaluate program effectiveness using assessments, participation and completion rates, employee feedback, knowledge retention, performance data, and operational outcomes.
• Monitor construction-industry and workforce-development trends and recommend appropriate program updates.
• Distinguish professional-development training from certifications that must be administered by qualified safety or technical personnel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, organizational development, education, business, construction management, or a related field preferred.
• Five or more years of experience in learning and development, employee training, organizational development, or a related field.
• Experience designing and facilitating leadership-development and technical-training programs, with knowledge of adult-learning and instructional-design practices.
• Experience supporting construction, renewable energy, engineering, utilities, manufacturing, or another field-based industry strongly preferred.
• Experience administering a learning management system and maintaining accurate training records.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Teams, SharePoint, and virtual-training platforms.
• Strong presentation, facilitation, written-communication, relationship-building, and project-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively at all organizational levels.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in utility-scale solar, battery energy storage systems, renewable-energy construction, or project-based construction operations.
• Experience supporting a geographically dispersed workforce.
• Knowledge of Davis-Bacon prevailing-wage, Inflation Reduction Act, and registered-apprenticeship requirements.
• Experience developing career paths, competency models, mentorship programs, or succession plans; CPTD, APTD, SHRM, PHR/SPHR, or instructional-design certification preferred.

Working Conditions:

• Combination of in-office and remote work (3 days in office, 2 days remote).
• Travel up to 50% to active project sites, company offices, and training locations; must comply with site requirements and wear required personal protective equipment.
• Ability to support employees across multiple locations and time zones; occasional early-morning or after-hours availability may be required.
• General work environment includes prolonged sitting, standing, walking, typing, carrying, pushing, and bending; occasional lifting of up to 50 lbs.
• Work is primarily indoors with varying environmental conditions. Noise is usually low to medium but may be loud on project sites.
• BUILD Renewables complies with the ADA and applicable state law and will consider reasonable accommodations that enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

What We Offer:

• Competitive Salary
• Opportunities for advancement
• On-the-job training and mentorship
• Performance bonuses
• Health, Dental and Vision insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401(k) with Employer Match
• Paid time off (PTO), vacation days, and holidays
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Employee Status: Full-time (Exempt)

Salary / Pay Range: $120,000 - $150,000

Location: Mendota Heights, MN

BUILD Renewables, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

If you need assistance or accommodation during the application process due to disability, please contact us at hr@buildrenew.com