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Onboarding & OJT: Turn New Hires into Productive Operators, Faster.

On-the-job training (OJT) software standardizes how new hires learn a job and get signed off at the machine. LeanSuite delivers baseline training, tracks required skills and records every OJT sign-off in one system.

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The Onboarding Gap

The true cost of slow onboarding

On a buddy system, new hires pick up bad habits and time-to-productivity stretches into months.

The shadowing trap

  • Draining Senior Talent

    Your best operators watch over new hires instead of running the line.

  • Inconsistent Training

    Shift A teaches a task one way and Shift B another, creating variation and defects.

  • Compliance Nightmares

    Paper training logs go missing or unsigned before an ISO or OSHA audit.

The LeanSuite fast-track

  • Automated Baseline Learning

    Safety and quality courses reach the new hire before they touch a machine.

  • Standardized Execution

    Digital OJT checklists teach every shift the same best way to do each task.

  • Verified Competency

    A trainer or supervisor signs off on a tablet, and the Skill Matrix updates with a timestamped record.

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HOW IT WORKS

Three modules, one onboarding path

Learning Management delivers baseline training, Lean Creator runs the OJT sign-off at the machine, and the Skill Matrix shows who is cleared to run production.

Learning Management
Lean Creator
Skills Matrix

Learning Management (LMS)

Baseline Knowledge Before Day One

Digital baseline training

Assign safety orientations, quality standards and One-Point Lessons (OPLs) as a learning plan, and see quiz scores and completion before day one on the floor.

  • Build courses from videos, PDFs, presentations and SOPs, on web or the mobile app

  • Auto-marked quizzes with pass marks and a limit on attempts

  • Refresher courses reassigned automatically, for example every year

An OJT checklist for a press die change on a tablet, with an OPL video on one step and the supervisor's PIN sign-off

Lean Creator

Standardized Practical Sign-offs

Digital OJT checklists

Replace shadowing with structured OJT. At the machine, a designated trainer, coordinator or supervisor checks the new hire against a standard checklist on a tablet.

  • Build OJT checklists in Lean Creator, or generate one with Create with AI

  • Attach the SOPs and OPLs for the job; each person signs them off digitally

  • Every sign-off is time-stamped and ready for audit

Skills Matrix

Real-Time Competency Visibility

Instant competency tracking

When the OJT is signed off, the new hire's level updates on the Skill Matrix and the Job Cover Matrix shows where they are qualified.

  • Color-coded matrix shows gaps and qualified operators at a glance

  • Skill levels 1–5 show progression from trainee to trainer

  • Bulk upload new hires and their managers with an upload template

Skills matrix of operators by station at levels 1 to 4, with an expiring certification and a new hire cleared for Press 4
An operator's path from level 2 to 3 with skills still to master, next to a 60-second OPL video in a training module

Workforce Readiness

Stop Losing Good Employees to Bad Onboarding

A chaotic first week drives new hires away. LeanSuite gives them a clear path from day one.

Visual Progression

Each operator's radar chart shows required, starting and current levels, so they can see what comes next.

One-Point Lessons (OPLs)

The AI builds a one-point lesson from a before-and-after photo pair, so your best operator's know-how stays when people leave.

Built for ISO, IATF and OSHA

Training records that stand up to an audit

“I showed him how” is not proof. LeanSuite is designed to align with ISO 9001, IATF and OSHA training documentation requirements, with a time-stamped record of when each operator trained, on what, and who verified them.

  • SOC 2 Type 1 report

  • First module live in under a week

  • Employee-ID sign-in, no email needed

  • 99.5% monthly uptime commitment

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. OJT is training at the workstation, where a trainee learns a task from an experienced person and is checked doing it for real. Digital OJT replaces informal shadowing with a standard checklist and a recorded sign-off.

  2. New hires take baseline courses in the LMS first. At the machine, a trainer checks them against an OJT checklist built in Lean Creator and signs off on a tablet, and their skill level and Job Cover Matrix status update automatically.

  3. Designated trainers or coordinators as well as supervisors. They watch the task and sign off on a tablet, leaving a time-stamped record.

  4. Yes. Courses can include videos, PDFs, presentations and your SOPs, so current orientation material can be reused.

  5. Turn on refresher for a course and LeanSuite reassigns it automatically, for example every year. Courses can also have a completion window, so late training shows as overdue.

  6. Admins bulk upload users and their managers with an upload template. Operators sign in with an employee ID, so no company email is needed.

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