HVAC Instructor

About the role

Develops, coordinates, and provides high-quality education and training programs to students for the Construction Training Department. Delivers National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning & Refrigerant (HVACR) curricula while ensuring alignment with industry standards and regulatory compliance with NCCER and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations.

Responsibilities

• Provides comprehensive curriculum that guides learners through a rigorous HVAC and Refrigeration curriculum and prepares learners for a career as skilled heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers.
• Instructs basic knowledge of sheet metal, welding, and pipefitting.
• Provides hands-on training using technologies and processes used in the field.
• Maintains accurate records of student performance, attendance, and individualized learning plans.
• Generates and analyzes reports to assess the curriculum's effectiveness and identifies improvement areas.
• Administers module tests to evaluate students' understanding and proficiency in the electrical field.
• Provides timely and constructive assessment feedback, guiding students towards continuous improvement.
• Conducts training within Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont guidelines utilizing NCCER.
• Demonstrates electrician techniques while emphasizing safety protocols and best practices.
• Provides students with constructive feedback and individualized coaching to improve their skills and proficiency.
• Identifies and addresses individual learning needs, adapting instructional strategies to accommodate diverse student abilities and backgrounds.
• Maintains knowledge of industry trends to identify evolving training needs.
• Integrates Federal, State, and local laws, codes, and regulations into curriculum.
• Provides supplemental instruction and resources to students who need assistance with mastering specific HVAC skills.
• Performs other job-related tasks as assigned by Site Supervisor.

Requirements

• At least four years' experience in the field of HVAC or three years of experience as a certified teacher at a vocational/technical construction or maintenance related training program.
• High School degree or general education degree (GED).
• National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) Certified preferred.
• Expert-level skills in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Excellent customer service skills, including an ability to effectively present information and respond to questions and requests from the board, managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Excellent verbal and written skills with all forms of communication (internal reports and correspondence, external communications, etc.).
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and/or government regulations.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percentage.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables, exercising judgment, initiative and ingenuity.
• Ability to exercise discretion while regularly managing confidential information.
• Ability to complete tasks with minimal to no supervision.
• Excellent organizational skills and an ability to handle detail, multiple tasks and to prioritize appropriately.
• Ability to operate office equipment, including computer, telephone, fax machine and copy machine.
• Valid Driver’s License (Class C), car insurance and reliable automobile required.

Physical demands

While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly (more than 2/3 of the day) required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The team member frequently (1/3 to 2/3 of the day) is required to talk or hear. The team member is occasionally (less than 1/3 of the day) required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The team member must frequently lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and depth perception.

Work environment

Work is performed indoors. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can become loud in lab spaces.