Trainer Adjunct -Construction Trades Workforce Training and Continuing Education

About the role

Responsible for the advancement of customized education and training programs for the corporate environment, specifically designing and delivering carpentry and construction training courses for continuing education and the workforce industry. The adjunct trainer is a project-based role responsible for delivering customized, short-term workforce training for business and industry partners. This position is industry-facing and flexible by design, with instructional assignments driven by employer demand, contract timelines, and workforce initiatives. Adjunct trainers serve as subject matter experts who translate industry knowledge into practical, skills-based learning experiences for adult learners in a classroom or laboratory environment. Assignments may vary by duration, schedule, modality, and location, and do not carry an expectation of ongoing or semester-based employment.

Responsibilities

• Instructional Delivery: Serve as a project-based adjunct trainer delivering noncredit workforce training aligned to employer needs and contractual requirements; prepare and teach departmental courses, developing learner-centered lesson plans and employing teaching strategies for different learning styles; deliver engaging instruction in corporate, classroom, laboratory, virtual, or hybrid environments based on program scope.
• Curriculum & Materials: Collaborate with employers and college workforce staff to customize curriculum, materials, and instructional approaches for specific training engagements; update and revise curriculum to maintain currency and develop new courses as needed to support the instructional mission; prepare, distribute, and utilize instructional support materials, including course syllabi and supplementary materials.
• Assessment & Compliance: Administer assessments, evaluations, and feedback tools after each training; develop, conduct, and document appropriate assessments of student learning outcomes; document attendance, completion, student records (e.g., grades), and data outcomes accurately and within established deadlines.
• Operational & Facility Oversight: Maintain classroom and laboratory spaces, including upkeep of assigned equipment, providing for security of facilities, and maintaining safe working conditions.
• Professionalism & Morale: Attend the workplace regularly, report to work punctually, and follow a work schedule to meet worksite demands; adapt teaching strategies to adult learners with diverse experience levels and learning styles; promote positive morale and teamwork, provide exceptional customer service, and model key employability skills such as adaptability, communication, and responsibility.
• Institutional Alignment: Complete duties in compliance with college standards, policies, guidelines, and applicable state and federal rules; support the values and institutional goals as defined in the College’s Strategic Plan and mission; complete all required training and professional development sessions sponsored by Texas Southmost College (TSC).
• Mandatory Compliance & Training: Complete college-sponsored orientation, standards, and guidelines; Anti-Discrimination/Harassment & Title IX; Safety/Active Shooter on Campus; Personal Information Protection Training (PIP); Ethics and Social Responsibility; Canvas Certification (if teaching online or hybrid); criminal history check with acceptable results within the first 30 days of hire, with annual refreshers thereafter.
• Physical Demands: Long periods of standing and extensive walking; frequently required to stand (up to 6 hours); occasionally required to walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; lifting requirements: frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move between 20 to 50 pounds; vision and hearing: ability to hear and see; specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus; work environment: typical instructional setting specific to a construction laboratory space or corporate environment; noise level usually moderate; while performing duties in the lab, may occasionally work near moving mechanical parts and experience a 15-30% environmental hazard exposure.

Schedule

Working hours are flexible and may include teaching day, evening, holiday, or weekend hours depending on deadline requirements, program scope, contract timelines, and special events.