Trainer Adjunct -Facilities Maintenance 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 facilities maintenance training courses for continuing education and the construction/trades workforce industry. The adjunct trainer is a project-based role responsible for delivering customized, short-term workforce training for business, industrial, and industry partners.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Administer assessments, evaluations, and feedback tools after each training.
• Develop, conduct, and document appropriate assessments of student learning outcomes.
• Maintain classroom and facilities maintenance laboratory spaces, including the upkeep of assigned equipment, electrical trainers, HVAC units, plumbing mock-ups, hand/power tools, and maintenance management software, providing for the security of facilities, and maintaining safe, clean working conditions.
• Attend the workplace regularly, report to work punctually, and follow a work schedule to keep up with the demands of the worksite.
• 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.
• Complete duties and responsibilities 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).
• 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.

Physical Demands

• Long periods of standing and extensive walking; frequently required to stand (up to 6 hours).
• Regularly required to walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, climb ladders, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Frequent lifting of up to 20 pounds, and occasionally lifting and/or moving between 20 to 50 pounds.
• Ability to hear and see. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work in a typical instructional setting specific to a simulated maintenance laboratory space, mechanical room, classroom, or industrial facility environment. The noise level is usually moderate to loud. While working in the lab, the employee may occasionally work near specialized machinery, electrical systems, pressurized piping, mechanical parts, and experience a 15-30% environmental hazard exposure.

Benefits

Mandatory compliance and training sessions are required and must be completed within the first 30 days of hire, with annual refreshers thereafter:

• 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