Registered Apprenticeship Specialist - Billings

Job Description
- Registered Apprenticeship Specialist
- Billings )

Position Title:

Registered Apprenticeship Specialist
- Billings - (  )

Join the Montana Department of Labor & Industry as a Registered Apprenticeship Specialist and turn real workforce challenges into career-launching opportunities for Montanans. In this mission-driven role, you’ll connect employers, educators, and jobseekers to paid, on the job training that builds in demand skills and strengthens local communities. You’ll focus on growing and supporting registered apprenticeships that help communities recruit, train, and keep the workforce they need.

MISSION STATEMENT:

Empowering all Montanans through work and opportunity.

It's about the people and the impact we make in our communities every day. We are proud of our open, team-based, supportive, and collaborative work environments. Learn more about DLI here.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

As a Registered Apprenticeship Specialist with 406

Jobs, you’ll use apprenticeship as a practical tool to solve real workforce challenges, not just administer a program. You’ll work directly with employers, schools, workforce partners, and reentry organizations to design and support apprenticeship and pre apprenticeship pathways aligned with Montana’s workforce goals. One day you might help a small business launch its first apprenticeship; the next, you’re coaching a school district through teacher apprenticeship registration or translating complex rules into clear, plain language for a new sponsor.

Every week, you’ll see the results of your work in new apprentices signed, new programs launched, and new careers started in and around your local community.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU:

• This role offers the chance to help shape career pathways that create real opportunity for Montanans while building strong partnerships that support employers, communities, and long-term workforce growth.
• As you design and expand apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs, you’ll strengthen your ability to turn workforce challenges into practical solutions, building valuable experience in program development, stakeholder engagement, and regional strategy.
• By guiding employers and partners through registration, standards, and compliance requirements, you’ll deepen your expertise in apprenticeship systems and learn how to translate complex rules into clear, actionable direction.
• Through collaboration with employers, schools, workforce organizations, and community partners, you’ll grow your relationship-building and facilitation skills while becoming a trusted resource across multiple sectors.
• Using labor market information, program outcomes, and community feedback, you’ll build hands-on experience with data-informed decision-making and strengthen your ability to recommend improvements that lead to measurable results.
• Delivering training, technical assistance, and outreach will further develop your communication, presentation, and coaching skills, preparing you for continued growth in workforce development, program leadership, and cross-sector partnership roles.
• This full-time role gives you the opportunity to support innovative workforce solutions in Montana while helping individuals and employers connect to training pathways that lead to stronger careers, stronger businesses, and stronger communities.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Design and expand apprenticeship programs by teaming up with employers, unions, and education and workforce partners to launch innovative registered apprenticeship models that unlock high quality, in demand careers across the region. As you do this, you’ll sharpen your program design, consulting, and stakeholder engagement skills with every new industry and community you support.
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