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Learning & Development Specialist
full timeChicago, Illinois
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AT A GLANCE
IllinoisFull Time
Skyline is Building Better Together Come join us at Skyline Construction, a leader in commercial interior construction founded in 1996. Today, Skyline operates multiple offices located throughout California, Washington, and Illinois. Skyline is a 100% employee-owned, award-winni
About the role
Skyline is Building Better Together
Come join us at Skyline Construction, a leader in commercial interior construction founded in 1996. Today, Skyline operates multiple offices located throughout California, Washington, and Illinois. Skyline is a 100% employee-owned, award-winning General Contractor, with an award-winning CEO at the helm. We believe that we are “building better together”.
What’s in it for you?
The Learning & Development Specialist reports to the Learning & Development Manager (L&D Manager) and is responsible for assisting the L&D Manager with designing, implementing, and managing training and development programs that support employee growth, operational excellence, leadership development, and workforce engagement across the organization. This role partners with leaders in construction operations, project management, field supervision, safety, and corporate functions to identify skill gaps, develop training solutions, and promote a culture of continuous learning.
The Learning & Development Specialist will play a key role in onboarding new employees, supporting career development initiatives, maintaining training records, and ensuring employees have the knowledge and skills necessary to deliver high-quality tenant improvement construction projects safely, efficiently, and in alignment with company values.
As a Learning & Development Specialist, you will serve in the following areas:
Responsibilities
- Assist Learning & Development Manager to translate business needs, role expectations, and process knowledge into engaging learning solutions.
- Assess training and development needs through surveys, interviews, focus groups, performance feedback, and communication with managers, employees, and business stakeholders.
- Design and build engaging eLearning courses, modules, interactions, learning paths, videos, and supporting materials using tools such as Articulate Storyline, Rise, Vyond, Cornerstone, and Microsoft 365.
- Develop quizzes, knowledge checks, scenario-based activities, participant handouts, answer keys, and other reinforcement tools to support learner practice and measure understanding.
- Create, organize, plan, and present various forms of training, including onboarding, one-on-one training, webinars, and classroom sessions for employees.
- Create, maintain, and organize reusable course templates, procedure guides, multimedia assets, job aids, and learning resources to support consistent, scalable content development across programs.
- Ensure that training materials, eLearning courses, videos, assessments, and learning programs remain current, accurate, engaging, and aligned with policies, business strategies, and program goals.
- Maintain records of training and development activities, attendance, assessment results, completion data, and retraining requirements.
- Administer learning content within Cornerstone OnDemand, including course maintenance, assignments, completion tracking, reporting, and learner support.
- Evaluate program effectiveness through assessments, surveys, feedback, and training data; recommend improvements to strengthen engagement, retention, and business impact.
- Support webinar coordination, learner communications, and training logistics as required.
Benefits
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Competitive Medical Insurance plan options including an HSA plan with Company deductible contributions.
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401K Plan Matching
- Unlimited PTO
- Life Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Gym reimbursement program
- Ability to enroll in various voluntary benefits (Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Legal Assistance and more.)
- Health insurance
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k)
- PTO
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