Apprenticeship Trainer (Bird Electric)

Apprenticeship Trainer (Bird Electric)

Join the Bird Electric (a Black & Veatch company) team and build with pride. As a 100% employee-owned company, every role matters — you own your work, your impact, and your future. We lead with care, and safety is non-negotiable and embedded into every role, site, and decision, ensuring our teams return home safe, every day. From field engineering to project management to quality and startup, you'll work with cutting-edge technology, learn from seasoned experts, and grow through real-world, hands-on experience.

With a strong backlog across power, water, grid, and industrial markets, you'll have the stability to grow and the opportunity to shape what comes next.

The Apprenticeship Trainer is an advanced educator and subject-matter expert responsible for delivering instruction across a broad range of construction competencies. This includes advanced construction craft theory, complex construction craft systems, transformers, construction craft, power distribution, troubleshooting, and industrial construction craft systems. In addition to teaching in classroom, distance learning, and field settings, the Apprenticeship Trainer evaluates student performance at a deeper level, recommends improvements to course materials, and actively contributes to program quality and accreditation compliance.

An additional responsibility of the role is the operational support of Construction Apprenticeship programs. This includes managing apprentice enrollment, and ensuring that all apprentice-related activities comply with regulatory requirements and organizational standards. The role helps maintain accurate documentation, ratios, and checks and balances to support program integrity. The Apprenticeship Trainer provides curriculum leadership, supports accreditation requirements, mentors less experienced instructors, and assists in developing new training content.

This role also plays a key part in supporting apprenticeship program operations, including enrollment, scheduling, tracking, and regulatory compliance.

Key responsibilities include:

• Advanced Instruction & Student Development
• Curriculum Leadership & Quality Improvement
• Apprenticeship Program Operations Support
• Training Delivery & Certification
• Management Responsibilities

Minimum qualifications include:

• Ability to obtain and maintain NCCER construction craft Instructor Certification
• Extensive journey-level or technician-level experience in construction
• More than three years of successful experience teaching in a vocational/technical construction program
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including PowerPoint, Word, and Excel
• Experience using Learning Management Systems (LMS) for tracking, reporting, and delivering training
• Ability to create, edit, and deliver digital training materials using presentation, document, and spreadsheet tools
• Familiarity with virtual training platforms (e.g., Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Web Ex)
• Strong general computer literacy, including file management, digital communication, and basic troubleshooting
• Experience using or adapting instructional technology tools such as projectors, smart boards, online testing systems, or content-authoring tools
• Ability to work, communicate, and deliver instruction effectively in both in-person and remote environments
• 6+ years relevant experience required

All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.