Workforce Development Instructor - Rigging

About the role

Bechtel’s Manufacturing & Technology (M&T) Business Unit is designing and building an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Manufacturing Facility located at Generation Park in Houston, TX. M&T serves customers in the semiconductor, datacenter, life sciences, and electric vehicle markets, striving to exceed customer objectives through agility, innovative technologies, and world‑class talent. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, the M&T global business unit also includes colleagues in Arizona, Ohio, Texas, India, and additional project locations worldwide. The Workforce Development Instructor for Rigging delivers classroom, hands‑on, field, and skills‑based training that supports the development, qualification, and safe performance of craft professionals on large industrial construction projects. This position supports Open Shop operations and regularly deploys to project locations for training, mobilization, and startup activities. Relocation authorized nationally; full‑time office/project work based in Houston, TX.

Responsibilities

• Deliver rigging instruction: Provide classroom, hands‑on, and field‑based instruction for craft professionals and supervisory personnel.
• Teach core rigging skills: Cover rigging hardware identification and inspection, sling selection, hitches, knots, load weight and capacity calculations, sling angles, center of gravity, load control, wedge‑socket assembly, crane signals, and operational communication.
• Evaluate competency: Administer written assessments, practical demonstrations, skills verifications, and competency evaluations; document results and provide coaching when performance gaps are identified.
• Support qualification programs: Facilitate craft training, apprenticeship, qualification, certification, Competent to Operate, and Verification of Competency programs in accordance with established requirements.
• Teach lift planning: Provide instruction on routine, non‑routine, and critical lift planning, including hazard recognition, load‑control methods, rigging sketches, and field execution. Review lift plans when assigned and qualified to do so.
• Maintain training materials: Develop, review, and update lesson plans, participant materials, practical exercises, assessments, and evaluator guides to reflect field practices and controlled requirements.
• Maintain records: Coordinate training events and maintain accurate attendance, assessment, qualification, and completion documentation.
• Support projects: Travel extensively to project sites and support workforce mobilization, project startup, instructor coordination, and training