Program Lab Assistant - Building Trades

Location: Essex Junction

Our Center for Technology, Essex has an opportunity for a full-time program lab assistant to support our Building Technology - Resident ail program beginning with the 2026-27 school year. In our Residential Building Trades program, students learn how to build a home from the ground up - constructing a home from foundation to finish, gaining hands-on experience and skills that will last a lifetime.

The lab assistant assists the program instructor in the education of students including management of student behavior; record keeping; instructional assistance; classroom and field work/laboratory safety, security, set-up and organization; and interaction and communication with students, support staff, parents/guardians, and other internal and external constituents.

Pay: 23.51+ based on experience

EWSD offers excellent benefits including generous paid time off, medical, and dental insurance, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, and a retirement plan with up to 6% employer contribution.

Individual with the following qualifications are encouraged to apply:

• Two years of experience in building trades, construction or related field
• Experience working with children/adolescents and adults especially those with special needs or at-risk of dropping out of school
• Good basic supervisory skills
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Good planning or organizational skills

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Our district vision is: "Growing hearts and minds, for a better today and tomorrow: every day, every way, every one."

EWSD is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive environment. Successful candidates must be committed to working effectively with diverse community populations and are expected to strengthen such capacity if hired. Candidates with experience working in another country, the ability to fluently speak more than one language, and/or peace corp experience are encouraged to apply to help contribute to a diversity of thinking and grow our organizational practices.

EWSD conducts thorough screenings of all applicants being recommended for hire, which may include contacting references not listed on your application. Selected individuals are subject to criminal records background checks and child and adult abuse registry checks. Any offer of employment will be contingent upon acceptable results of these checks at the sole discretion of the Superintendent or his/her designee. Please  for additional background check information.