Continuing Education trainer CATA- Avionics Technician

General Statement of Job

The CATA Trainer - Avionics Technician trainer supports the education and hands‑on training of students pursuing careers in avionics technology. The trainer utilizes interactive lessons, technical demonstrations, and real‑world scenarios to teach foundational and advanced skills in aircraft electronics, navigation systems, communication equipment, and diagnostic procedures. This role is essential in preparing students to work alongside aviation professionals in maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing avionics systems in a variety of aerospace and aviation settings.

• Instructs Avionics Technician classes for students of various proficiency levels.
• Implements educational curriculum to ensure student success.
• Evaluates and optimizes educational curriculum.
• Motivates students to attend class, learn, and be successful.
• Creates individual educational plans to support timely coursework completion; ensures that students complete their individual educational plan in a timely manner.
• Maintains student and class records.
• Tracks student attendance.
• Assess students' academic performance.
• Completes and submits course documentation when due.
• Informs Coordinators of students not meeting attendance and academic goals and/or not complying with behavior expectations.
• Informs Coordinators of support services for students.
• Maintains a positive, productive classroom and handles behavior problems effectively.
• Communicates with students, staff and peers in a professional, respectful, and constructive manner.
• Conducts sponsor‑teacher conferences.
• Travels throughout the College district, as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Associate's degree preferred.
• One (1) year of teaching/training experience required.

• Excellent oral, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize, organize, and complete multiple tasks with attention to detail, within stated deadlines. Bilingual (English/Spanish), preferred.
• Ability to work evenings and/or weekends as needed; willing to travel throughout the college district using own means of reliable transportation.
• Demonstrated commitment to achieving the vision and mission of South Texas College.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to inquiries from groups of students, customers or employees of an organization.
• Ability to apply practical understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

• Security Sensitive position:
  All applicants are subject to a criminal background check under South Texas College policy.
• Must have or qualify for a valid Texas driver's license and proof of liability insurance.

• Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects.
• Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.
• Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word…