Instructional Designer Jobs in Tennessee

This role will partner with technical subject matter experts, Operations, Engineering, Commissioning, and other stakeholders to transform complex technical information into structured curricula, qualification pathways, assessments, instructor-led courses, digital learning, and performance-support tools. Because the organization is in an early stage of development, this position will have significant influence over how training standards, learning processes, and workforce development programs are established and scale across multiple data center campuses.

• Success Measures
  Success in this role will be demonstrated through:
  Delivery of high-quality curricula aligned with operational and launch milestones.
  Consistent use of standardized learning materials across supported campuses.
  Reduced time required to develop, review, and release priority training.
  Improved learner readiness, first-pass assessment results, and time-to-qualification.
  Effective collaboration between Training, technical SMEs, and Operations.
  Timely integration of lessons learned, equipment changes, and operational requirements.
  Development of scalable programs that strengthen internal technical capability and help reduce long-term reliance on external vendors.
• Work Model
  This role is part of a centralized Training Center of Excellence based in Nashville, TN and supports multiple data center campuses. Periodic travel may be required to conduct needs assessments, observe job performance, support pilot delivery, collaborate with site stakeholders, and evaluate training effectiveness.
• Opportunity and Impact
  This is an opportunity to help build a technical training organization from the ground up. The Instructional Designer will play a central role in defining how Oracle develops, qualifies, and advances its critical facilities workforce—creating learning programs that directly influence site readiness, operational consistency, employee capability, and the long-term maturity of the data center operations organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop role-based curricula and qualification pathways for critical facilities operations personnel.
• Partner with technical SMEs to analyze job tasks, performance requirements, knowledge gaps, and training needs.
• Translate complex technical information into clear, practical learning experiences for adult learners.
• Develop instructor-led, virtual, digital, blended, and hands-on learning solutions.
• Create course outlines, facilitator guides, participant materials, job aids, technical references, and performance-support tools.
• Develop written assessments, practical evaluations, knowledge checks, and qualification criteria.
• Apply instructional design methodologies to ensure training is measurable, repeatable, and aligned with operational outcomes.
• Support training required for new-site launches, commissioning, equipment turnover, employee onboarding, remediation, and continuing development.
• Maintain curriculum governance, version control, review cycles, and standardized templates.
• Incorporate operational lessons learned, procedure changes, equipment updates, and learner feedback into training revisions.
• Coordinate pilot delivery, collect performance data, and improve programs based on measurable results.
• Support learning management system administration, course assignment, completion tracking, and reporting as needed.
• Manage multiple concurrent development projects while balancing launch dates, operational priorities, and stakeholder requirements.
Help establish common instructional design standards and development processes for the Training Center of Excellence

Required Qualifications

• Experience designing and developing technical, operational, or workforce training programs.
• Demonstrated knowledge of adult-learning principles and instructional design methodologies.
• Experience creating instructor-led, digital, virtual, or blended learning solutions.
• Experience developing assessments and measuring learning effectiveness.
• Strong writing, editing, facilitation, and visual-communication skills.
• Ability to learn complex technical concepts and convert them into clear, structured instruction.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with SMEs and challenge or clarify technical content when needed.
• Strong project-management, organization, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a rapidly evolving environment.
• Proficiency with common learning-development, presentation, and content-authoring tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting data centers, critical facilities, utilities, manufacturing, engineering, aviation,
• energy, or another technically complex operating environment.
• Experience developing competency-based qualification or certification programs.
• Experience creating practical performance evaluations and hands-on training materials.
• Familiarity with learning management systems, curriculum governance, and training analytics.
• Experience supporting new-site launches, workforce ramps, or rapidly growing organizations.
• Relevant degree or professional certification in instructional design, education, organizational development, learning technology, or a related field.