Workforce Trainer

Position Summary:

Delivers Kern Center training programs offered on main campus and at satellite sites and ensures that programs are successful. This position is responsible for delivering training programs needed to prepare students for employment and incumbent employee training for the Manufacturing Partners.  The employee will work closely with the Program Manager to coordinate training and assure training meets the client’s needs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Include:

• Trainer for non-credit training programs, both on campus and at satellite sites.
• Works with the Manufacturing Partners to determine their technical training needs.
• Alerts college staff of needed repairs of lab equipment.
• Assures the quality delivery of technical skills training.
• Remains current with subject matter and methodology. 
• Employs appropriate assessment techniques to measure student performance in achieving training goals and objectives. 
• Assures consistency in the planning, preparation, and administration of the training content, outlines, and other training materials for training courses and lab experiences.
• Works effectively with students and challenges students appropriately with an acceptable level of civility and discourse.
• Assess training programs and recommends needed changes.

Education and/or Work Experience:

• Associates Degree in related field preferred and/or Journeyman card with 5+ years of industry experience, and/or other industry certifications.
• Training experience preferred, preferably at the college or industry certification level.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrated commitment to student success and to enhancing teaching and learning
• Ability to work collaboratively
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and talk or hear.  The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds and.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally:
• Works near moving mechanical parts and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, and toxic or caustic chemicals 
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate

STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT 

As part of Terra State Community College’s ongoing commitment in providing the highest quality education and training to our students, faculty, staff and community, the College will: 

• Educate students by means of free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth. 

• Equip students with an opportunity to develop the intellectual skills they need to reach their own, informed conclusions. 

• Not require, favor, disfavor, or prohibit speech or lawful assembly. 

• Create a community dedicated to an ethic of civil and free inquiry, which respects the autonomy of each member, supports individual capacities for growth, and tolerates the differences in opinion that naturally occur in a public higher education community. 

• Treat all faculty, staff, and students as individuals, will hold them to equal standards, and provide them equality of opportunity, with regard to those individuals’ race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. 

The position description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirement of the job change.