Instructional Designer

The Company:

Cognex is the largest, most successful and recognized global player in industrial machine vision! We are a financially strong, international company with no debt and have been in business for over 40 years. Using advanced optics, image sensors and artificial intelligence software Cognex vision and ID systems capture an image then analyze it to make sense of what’s being seen. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working environment for all. Our Work Hard, Play Hard, Move Fast culture recognizes our employees for their innovation, perseverance, and hard work in a fun, rewarding, and quirky environment.

Essential Functions:

• Create instructional materials (online and classroom presentations, including lab exercises and skills journals) targeted to a technical audience

• Begin to identify learning objectives, performance outcomes, and evaluative strategies to deliver content

• Deliver all instructional and supporting materials to the Global Training Team in an organized, consistent, and efficient way to ensure effortless consumption

• Maintain training libraries and repositories whilst ensuring the highest level of security and appropriate distribution of access levels

• Learn to design, organize and distribute assessments to measure knowledge retention

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong time management skills with the ability to effectively prioritize workload when receiving content development requests from more senior team members

• Ability to understand our target audiences and how to adapt content development to it and learning to maintain the desired expectations of all stakeholders

• Knowledge of instructional design principles, learning models, best practices, and adult learning theory

• Ability to work independently during development cycles, delivering content on time while meeting all project requirements, with guidance as needed from senior team members

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, etc.), eLearning software tools (Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline, Camtasia), or other relevant tools

• Proven communication skills (written, verbal, presentation, etc.) to both internal and external stakeholders

• Ability to publish content to an eLearning platform

• Familiarity with cloud-based Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Minimum Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in instructional design, education technology or engineering related disciplines or equivalent work experience

• A minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in instructional design/eLearning development in an engineering-related field

• Experience in machine vision and industrial automation is desirable

• Must possess English language proficiency (spoken and written) as a minimum for the role

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cognex is an equal opportunity employer. Cognex evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.