Lead, Learning and Development - Fossil & Corporate

Allentown, PA

Houston, TX

Columbus, OH

Full time

R0004291

he Learning & Development team partners with Plant Operations to build workforce capability, strengthen safety culture, and support safe, reliable power generation. As a working team lead with direct reports, you will guide learning professionals while personally assessing, designing, delivering, and evaluating technical, safety, and regulatory learning solutions across operating locations.

How You’ll Power the Future

At Talen Energy, your work directly supports safe, reliable power generation. In this role, you’ll drive meaningful change by:

People Leadership and Team Development

• Supervise, coach, develop, and evaluate assigned learning and development staff; set expectations and provide performance feedback.

• Prioritize team workloads, monitor quality and capacity, and provide instructional design guidance and review.

• Build team capability, accountability, and consistent learning standards; identify staffing and vendor needs.

Strategic Learning Partnership and Needs Assessment

• Partner with Plant Operations and Corporate leaders to assess current and emerging capability gaps, performance challenges, and training priorities.

• Align learning plans with operational readiness, workforce planning, knowledge transfer, and changing technology, equipment, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

Instructional Design and Training Development

• Design, develop, deliver, and improve technical, operational, safety, compliance, and employee development training.

• Apply adult learning principles across instructor-led, digital, blended, and on-the-job learning; translate complex content with subject matter experts.

• Create assessments, videos, job aids, facilitator guides, and train-the-trainer programs, using AI and automation where appropriate.

Safety Culture and Safety Training

• Partner with plant leaders and Environmental, Health & Safety to reinforce a proactive safety culture.

• Develop and maintain learning on hazard recognition, risk awareness, safe work practices, and accountability, incorporating lessons from incidents, near misses, observations, and procedure changes.

• Support employee and contractor safety onboarding and refreshers; collaborate with course owners to keep content current.

NERC and Regulatory Training Support

• Partner with NERC Compliance, Plant Operations, and technical experts across applicable business units to develop and maintain regulatory learning content.

• Translate approved requirements into instruction aligned with applicable standards, company policies, and operating procedures.

Training Solutions, Governance, and Effectiveness

• Evaluate internal development versus external providers, vendors, and learning technologies based on business need, quality, cost, and outcomes.

• Coordinate external training and evaluate vendor performance and resource effectiveness.

• Establish training intake, prioritization, design, delivery, evaluation, maintenance, and content review processes.

• Lead concurrent initiatives across locations; partner with course owners, learning systems administrators, and Corporate Learning & Development on platform-ready content and consistent standards.

• Measure quality, participation, proficiency, and effectiveness; communicate priorities, results, and improvements to stakeholders.

What You Have

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Learning & Development, Instructional Design, Education, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent education and experience.

• Eight or more years of progressive learning and development experience, must have instructional design expertise or technical training and supervising, coaching, or leading training professionals. Expertise in Articulate 360, SAP SuccessFactors and Camtasia.

• Experience conducting needs assessments and developing instructor-led, digital, and blended learning programs.

• Experience consulting with business leaders and using learning management systems and instructional design technologies.

• Strong project leadership, communication, stakeholder engagement, analytical, and cross-functional coordination skills.

• Ability to travel as necessary to operating facilities and work in plant environments while following safety requirements at all Talen Energy plants.

• Ability to meet nuclear plant background and security clearance requirements, where applicable.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in power generation, utilities, energy, manufacturing, or other industrial environments.

• Experience developing technical, operational, safety, or regulatory training.

• Familiarity with NERC Reliability Standards, Critical Infrastructure Protection training, and other regulatory obligations.

• Knowledge of OSHA requirements, industrial safety practices, safety management systems, and EHS partnerships.

• Experience with competency-based training, knowledge transfer, outsourced learning solutions, video production, and AI-enabled learning tools.

• Professional certification in learning and development, instructional design, project management, or related discipline.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Business acumen and ability to align learning with operational objectives and influence without formal authority.

• Instructional design, facilitation, performance consulting, and ability to translate complex technical information.

• Analytical, organizational, project management, written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to balance strategic consultation with hands-on execution, staff development, and workload management.

Key Measures of Success

• Training priorities aligned with operational and workforce needs; timely delivery of effective programs.

• Improved employee knowledge, skills, and proficiency; accurate and current safety and regulatory content.

• Stakeholder satisfaction, cost effectiveness, and continuous improvement in learning processes and outcomes.

Additional Requirements

• Ability to travel to field/corporate sites as needed. Other duties as assigned consistent with the responsibilities of the position.

Note: You will have an opportunity to add attachments to your application. Please use this opportunity to upload your resume, cover letter, and any relevant documents .

Talen is a leading independent power producer and energy infrastructure company dedicated to powering the future. We own, operate, and optimize high-quality power infrastructure across the United States. Our generation portfolio includes 15 generation locations capable of producing approximately 15.6 GW of power. Talen’s fleet generates electricity using a diverse mix of fuels, ranging from zero-carbon nuclear energy—including the Susquehanna nuclear facility—to natural gas, coal, and oil. We produce and sell electricity, capacity, and ancillary services into wholesale power markets across the United States, with generation assets located in key power markets.

Our team is committed to generating power safely and reliably and delivering the most value per megawatt produced.  Talen is also powering the digital infrastructure revolution.  We are well-positioned to capture this growing industry, as artificial intelligence data centers increasingly demand more reliable, clean power.

We have an inclusive, diverse, respectful, and collaborative workplace, and a strong commitment to innovation, teamwork, and integrity. Talen is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Talen Energy is committed to providing a safe, drug and alcohol-free workplace. Consistent with applicable law and any collective bargaining agreements, positions may be subject to pre-employment, random, post-accident, and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing.

Talen Energy is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to diversity and the strength it brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, disability, perceived disability, or any other protected characteristic as may be defined by applicable law.

For more information visit www.talenenergy.com .

If you need assistance with the application process, please email us at [email protected]