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Trainer Adjunct -Craft Brewing Workforce Training and Continuing Education

Texas Southmost College · Austin, TX · 1 wk ago
EducationFull-time

Job Summary

Responsible for the advancement of customized education and training programs for the corporate environment, specifically designing and delivering fundamental brewing and cellar operations training courses for continuing education and the hospitality, beverage, and manufacturing workforce industry. The adjunct trainer is a project-based role responsible for delivering customized, short-term workforce training for business, hospitality, and commercial craft brewing partners. This position is industry-facing and flexible by design, with instructional assignments driven by employer demand, contract timelines, and workforce initiatives.

Essential Duties And 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, brewing facility, 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 brewing laboratory spaces, including the upkeep of assigned training equipment, brewhouse vessels, fermentation tanks, draft systems, cleaning chemicals (CIP), raw ingredients, and inventory software, providing for the security of facilities, and maintaining safe, hygienic, and sterile working conditions.
  • Professionalism & Morale: Attends the workplace regularly, reports to work punctually, and follows a work schedule to keep up with the demands of the worksite.
    • Adapts teaching strategies to adult learners with diverse experience levels and learning styles.
    • Promotes positive morale and teamwork, provides exceptional customer service, and models key employability skills such as adaptability, communication, and responsibility.
  • Institutional Alignment : Completes duties and responsibilities in compliance with college standards, policies, guidelines, and applicable state, federal, and TABC/TTB rules.
    • Supports the values and institutional goals as defined in the College’s Strategic Plan and mission.
    • Completes all required training and professional development sessions sponsored by Texas Southmost College (TSC).
  • Scheduling: 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.

    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.
    • Frequent lifting of up to 20 pounds and occasional lifting and/or moving between 20 to 50 pounds (such as raw material bags or keg fittings).

    Work Environment

    • Typical instructional setting specific to a simulated brewing laboratory space, pilot brewhouse, classroom, or commercial production facility environment.
    • The noise level is usually moderate to loud.
    • While working in the lab, the employee may occasionally work near specialized machinery, steam/hot liquids, pressurized vessels, sanitizing chemicals, moving mechanical parts, and experience a 15-30% environmental hazard exposure.

    Mandatory Compliance & Training

    • 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.

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