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Job Summary
At Flex, we welcome people of all backgrounds. Our employees thrive here by living our values: we support each other as we strive to find a better way, we move fast with discipline and purpose, and we do the right thing always.
Through a respectful, inclusive and collaborative culture, a career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference, invest in your career growth and join our purpose -- to make great products that create value and improve people's lives.
Job summary:
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add an Operations Trainer to our team.
Reporting to the Training Supervisor, this role will conduct tests and troubleshoot electronic products, components, and systems to ensure production quality standards are met.
What a typical day looks like:

• Deliver hands-on training and coaching for new hires and existing employees on the production floor.
• Conduct onboarding covering Flex culture, ESD, environmental health and safety, quality, ISO requirements, and site procedures.
• Train employees using approved work instructions and demonstrate the correct use of production tools, equipment, machines, and processes.
• Observe trainee performance, verify understanding, document completion, and provide retraining when standards are not met.
• Maintain accurate individual training records, complete training reports, and support training effectiveness audits.
• Complete Train-the-Trainer instruction and build proficiency across assigned manufacturing and assembly processes.
• Support specialized production areas, including clean-room operations, gowning protocols, and Cerebras assembly, as assigned.
• Partner with Engineering, Quality, Safety, and Operations to standardize training practices and improve employee performance, compliance, and production readiness.

The experience we're looking to add to our team:

• Typically requires an associate degree, military training, or equivalent vocational training or experience.
• Typically requires at least two years of related manufacturing, assembly, technical, or training experience.
• Demonstrates strong technical knowledge across multiple manufacturing or assembly processes.
• Ability to read, understand, interpret, and teach approved work instructions, procedures, diagrams, and production requirements.
• Hands-on experience using production tools and equipment such as scanners, computers, torque tools, microscopes, printers, pick-and-place equipment, or similar machinery.
• Ability to clearly demonstrate technical processes, coach employees, evaluate performance, and provide retraining when needed.
• Basic computer skills with the ability to maintain training records, complete reports, and use spreadsheets or related systems.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English and work across different schedules, production areas, clean-room environments, and changing operational needs.

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Application Deadline:
Applications for this job position will be accepted for at least five days following the job posting start date below and continuing until the end date below or until the position is filled. This posting may close sooner due to application volume.
Job Posting Start Date 07-22-2026 Job Posting End Date 09-23-2026
The base pay range for this position is provided below. The final base rate offered will be determined using job-related, non-discriminatory criteria, including but not limited to experience, qualifications, geographic location, education, external market data, and internal equity.
$24.70 USD - $33.34 USD Hourly
Job Category
Operations
Is Sponsorship Available?
No
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