Training Specialist, Welding

HADRIAN - MANUFACTURING THE FUTURE

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. By combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, ships, and other mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost.

Following our $1.37B Series D at a $7.87B valuation, Hadrian is rapidly expanding our manufacturing footprint, launching new capabilities across welding, casting, forging, electronics, additive manufacturing, and more, while scaling our Factory-as-a-Service platform to transform how critical products are built.

Backed by leading investors including JPMorgan Chase, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Lux Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Morgan Stanley, we’re building the future of American manufacturing—and looking for exceptional people to help make it happen.

If you’re ready to take on the most challenging and rewarding work of your career while helping create American manufacturing jobs for generations to come, you’re exactly who we’re looking for.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Training Specialist - Welding owns welding training at their site. You will teach technicians to weld to a written standard across TIG, MIG and mechanized processes, run the evaluations that confirm they are ready, and keep the training records and documentation that the program is audited against. The role works closely with our naval customer as a representative of Hadrian.

This is a senior individual contributor role. You will report to the site Training Operations Manager, with a dotted line to our welding training lead, who sets the welding curriculum and standard. You will set your own course with minimal oversight, direct trainees day to day without managing them, and make recommendations to leadership when the program needs them.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

You will lead welding training at your site, delivering hands-on instruction in the booth and on the floor and acting as the technical expert for the technicians you train. You will bring technicians to weld to the written standard across TIG, MIG and mechanized welding, with consistent execution across every shift, and you will learn new processes and methods as they are introduced and turn them into clear, teachable steps.

You will own the evaluation process, including weld tests, practical assessments, quizzes, progress reporting and evaluation criteria across hard and soft skills. You will record training, evaluations and qualifications in our training software so records are complete and current, and you will maintain version-controlled, audit-ready welding training documentation and conduct training audits for procedural compliance.

You will develop and refine welding curriculum with our welding training lead, adapting the core training system to your site. You will give trainees day-to-day direction and escalate performance concerns to the Training Operations Manager, and you will carry Hadrian's standards and culture into your work with our naval customer.

WHAT YOU BRING

Required

- Experience in multiple welding disciplines, including TIG (GTAW), MIG (GMAW) and mechanized welding

- 3+ years in a training, instructing or teaching role focused on entry-level individual contributors

- At least 1 year welding in a production environment

- Proven ability to train people from entry level to mid level to weld to a written standard

- Openness to learning new processes and methods, and to reteaching as they change

- Comfort working with software to record training, evaluations and qualifications

- Experience maintaining training documentation to an audit-ready standard

- Ability to recognize patterns in how people learn and give objective, actionable recommendations to leadership

- A self-starter who manages their own time and priorities with minimal oversight

- Willingness to travel around 25%, primarily to our Los Angeles facility for training purposes

Preferred, not necessary

- Experience welding or training to NAVSEA standards

- Experience with robotic welding; this can be learned and trained in role

- Welding certifications such as AWS Certified Welder, Certified Welding Educator or Certified Welding Inspector

- Experience building welding curriculum or training documentation from the ground up

- Ability to influence without direct authority

- Comfort representing a company in front of a customer

- High emotional intelligence; improves on feedback and coaches others

- Passion for training, career development and Hadrian's mission of reindustrializing the nation's workforce

OUR VALUES

- Surgical Precision: welds, evaluations, records and documentation have to be exact.

- Own the Outcome: you own the training outcome at your site and meet the intent of the standard.

- Build, Edit, Scale: our welding curriculum is moving from pilot to scale, and you will help refine it.

BENEFITS FOR FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES

- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees

401k

- Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.

- Flexible vacation policy

- Equity

ITAR REQUIREMENTS

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

USE OF AI IN HIRING

Hadrian uses AI-assisted tools in our recruiting and hiring processes to help our team work more efficiently. This may include tools that help organize and analyze recruiting data, as well as an AI-powered notetaker that can record and transcribe interviews and help coordinate feedback. These tools support our team and are not used to make hiring decisions. All candidate evaluations and hiring decisions are performed by humans. If an interview will be recorded, you will be notified in advance and may opt out at any time with no impact on your candidacy. Candidate data processed through these tools is subject to the same protections described in our Privacy Policy https://www.hadrian.co/privacy-policy.

CONSIDERATION OF CRIMINAL HISTORY

Hadrian will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws. We do not ask about criminal history on our application, and we do not consider criminal history before making a conditional offer of employment.

HADRIAN IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Hadrian does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, marital status, mental status, physical disability or any other legally protected status. When necessary, the Company also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled candidates and employees, including for candidates or employees who are disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.