Director of Propel Academy - Apprenticeship and Training

Director, Apprenticeship & Training

The Director, Apprenticeship & Training leads and directs all activities of Propel Career Academy, FSG's licensed career school and U.S. Department of Labor registered apprenticeship program in San Antonio.

The Director carries full accountability for the school's operating and financial performance, enrollment, instructional quality, regulatory standing, facility, staff, and, critically, the working relationship between Propel and FSG's leadership across the country.

Propel's near-term focus is deliberately narrow: indentured electrical apprenticeships and commercial welding. The Director is expected to run those two programs exceptionally well, connect them to the branches that hire the graduates, and rebuild Propel's standing as an asset to the operating business rather than a separate institution. This is a turnaround and integration assignment as much as a school leadership one.

This position is the school's Director of record with the Texas Workforce Commission under 40 TAC §807.61, and the designated official with authority to receive and dispose of apprentice complaints under 29 CFR §29.5(22). Those are personal, named designations that carry regulatory consequence.

The ideal candidate has run a trade or technical school, an apprenticeship training center, or an IEC, ABC or JATC chapter training operation, and brings a genuine trades background alongside real administrative and financial discipline. Equal weight is placed on instructional credibility with journeymen and the operational rigor to manage a licensed institution's compliance calendar.

Reports to:

Chief Executive Officer

Leadership & Accountability Own the working relationship between Propel and FSG's regional Vice Presidents, Construction Managers and branch leadership, understanding what each market needs and shaping the school's offering around it. Absorb the business-development function previously held separately, identifying partnership, contract-training and revenue opportunities that serve FSG first. Represent Propel with contractors, employers, workforce boards, trade associations, secondary and post-secondary partners, and the military transition community.

Integrate Propel with FSG's shared functions – Human Resources, Recruiting, Learning & Development, Marketing and Finance – rather than duplicating them on campus. Promote the school's under-used institutional assets to FSG — the BICSI lab (one of thirteen in Texas), VA and Skill Bridge approval, and the assessment capability — as company-wide capabilities rather than San Antonio only facilities.

Regulatory & Accreditation Serve as the school's designated school director of record with the Texas Workforce Commission, maintaining continuous compliance with 40 TAC Chapter 807 and remaining physically present at the campus for the majority of scheduled operating hours. Serve as the designated official with authority to receive, process and dispose of apprentice complaints under the school's DOL registration. Designate the school's liaison for TWC compliance visits and hold that person accountable for the school's readiness.

Own Program Advisory Committee governance: formation, membership composition, meeting cadence, minutes and the annual program-review record.

Financial & Business Performance Own the division's operating budget, revenue plan and monthly financial performance, and produce a forward-looking spend plan identifying what FSG will and will not fund. Define and report the school's operating metrics to FSG leadership: cohort fill, conversion, attrition, on-time completion, credential attainment, placement, instructor coverage and cost per student. Lead the evaluation of the campus's long-term facility needs, including the decision on whether Propel remains in the current building.

Approve the school's systems footprint and eliminate duplication, establishing a single authoritative system for each class of record. Maximize year-round utilization of the campus and the programs. Establish what runs outside the September–April apprenticeship calendar, how many students each serve, and what the facility could…