Trade School Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong relationships with trade and technical schools, workforce development boards, and professional organizations.
• Identify new trade school partnership opportunities that align with organizational hiring needs and create visibility around skilled trades careers at C&W Services.
• Collaborate with schools and community partners on workforce readiness initiatives, scholarship programs, internship pipelines, and ambassador programs.
• Work closely with the Apprenticeship Department and internal Learning & Development teams to align external curriculum offerings with internal job profiles.
• Partner with schools to enhance or co-develop curriculum based on industry trends, skills gap analysis, and feedback from hiring managers.
• Participate in advisory boards, roundtables, and school curriculum reviews to influence trade education that supports current and future hiring needs.
• Plan, organize, and attend on-campus recruitment events including career fairs, open houses, speaking engagements, and hiring days.
• Represent C&W Services as a top employer in the skilled trades space, ensuring consistent and compelling brand messaging.
• Promote awareness of skilled trades career pathways internally and externally through storytelling, digital campaigns, and candidate testimonials.
• Create and deliver weekly and quarterly reports that track the effectiveness of trade school partnerships, event ROI, and student engagement.
• Present status updates and strategic recommendations to Talent Acquisition leadership and business stakeholders on a recurring basis.
• Use PowerBI dashboards and other data tools to extract insights, spot trends, and tell a clear story that connects data to business outcomes.
• Monitor graduation rates, placement success, and program engagement to ensure our partnerships are producing meaningful talent outcomes.
• Serve as a proactive partner to operational leaders, forecasting talent gaps before they arise and leveraging your school relationships to fill critical roles.
• Help prioritize school engagement strategies based on workforce demand by site, market saturation, skill gaps, and seasonal needs.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across recruiting, operations, L&D, and school partners to ensure strategic workforce readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Workforce Development, Education, or a related field—or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum of 2+ years of experience in recruitment, workforce development, education partnerships, or related field.
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage and influence a wide variety of stakeholders including instructors, students, hiring managers, and executives.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects, partnerships, and deadlines in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Comfort working with data and dashboards, with the ability to interpret metrics and deliver actionable insights to leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with the skilled trades industry and a passion for trade education and workforce development.
• Experience with apprenticeship programs, trade school curriculum development, or industry advisory councils.
• Hands-on experience with recruiting tools such as Workday, Gem, or other applicant tracking systems (ATS).
• Proficiency in using PowerBI or other business intelligence/reporting tools.
• Understanding of workforce development trends, certification frameworks (e.g., NCCER, OSHA), and skilled trades pipeline challenges.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs.
• Competitive pay, which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, total hours worked, job type, business line, and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Compensation

$80,168.40 - $91,710.00

Contact Information

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