Trainer Adjunct -Craft Brewing Workforce Training and Continuing Education

Texas Southmost College; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 32,000 - 52,000; Part time

Job summary

Texas Southmost College is seeking an adjunct trainer to lead customized brewing and cellar operations training for continuing education in the hospitality, beverage, and manufacturing sectors.

The role focuses on transferring industry knowledge into practical, skills-based learning experiences for adult learners across classrooms, laboratories, or production spaces with flexible assignments based on employer demand and contract timelines.

Responsibilities

• Instructional Delivery: deliver noncredit workforce training aligned to employer needs and contractual requirements, prepare and teach departmental courses, and employ teaching strategies for different learning styles.
• Curriculum & Materials: customize curriculum, materials, and instructional approaches for specific training engagements and update curriculum to support the instructional mission.
• Assessment & Compliance: administer assessments, document attendance, completion, and student records accurately and within deadlines.
• Operational & Facility Oversight: maintain training spaces and equipment, ensure safe, hygienic, and sterile working conditions.
• Professionalism & Morale: maintain punctuality, adapt teaching strategies for diverse learners, and promote customer service and employability skills.
• Institutional Alignment: comply with college standards and participate in required training and development.
• Scheduling: flexible hours including day, evening, holiday, or weekend assignments depending on program scope and deadlines.

Job description

Job Summary

Responsible for the advancement of customized education and training programs for the corporate environment, specifically designing and delivering fundamental brewing and cellar operations training courses for continuing education and the hospitality, beverage, and manufacturing workforce industry. The adjunct trainer is a project-based role responsible for delivering customized, short-term workforce training for business, hospitality, and commercial craft brewing partners. This position is industry-facing and flexible by design, with instructional assignments driven by employer demand, contract timelines, and workforce initiatives. Adjunct trainers serve as subject matter experts who translate industry knowledge into practical, skills-based learning experiences for adult learners in a classroom, laboratory, or production environment. Assignments may vary by duration, schedule, modality, and location, and do not carry an expectation of ongoing or semester-based employment.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Instructional Delivery : Serve as a project-based adjunct trainer delivering noncredit workforce training aligned to employer needs and contractual requirements. Prepare and teach departmental courses, developing learner-centered lesson plans and employing teaching strategies for different learning styles. Deliver engaging instruction in corporate, classroom, laboratory, brewing facility, virtual, or hybrid environments based on program scope.
• Curriculum & Materials: : Collaborate with employers and college workforce staff to customize curriculum, materials, and instructional approaches for specific training engagements. Update and revise curriculum to maintain currency and develop new courses as needed to support the instructional mission. Prepare, distribute, and utilize instructional support materials, including course syllabi and supplementary materials.
• Assessment & Compliance: Administer assessments, evaluations, and feedback tools after each training. Develop, conduct, and document appropriate assessments of student learning outcomes. Document attendance, completion, student records (e.g., grades), and data outcomes accurately and within established deadlines.
• Operational & Facility Oversight: Maintain classroom and brewing laboratory spaces, including the upkeep of assigned training equipment, brewhouse vessels, fermentation tanks, draft systems, cleaning chemicals ( CIP ), raw ingredients, and inventory software, providing for the security of facilities, and maintaining safe, hygienic, and sterile working conditions.
• Professionalism & Morale: Attends the workplace regularly, reports to work punctually, and follows a work schedule to keep up with the demands of the worksite. Adapts teaching strategies to adult learners with diverse experience levels and learning styles. Promotes positive morale and teamwork, provides exceptional customer service, and models key employability skills such as adaptability, communication, and responsibility.
• Institutional Alignment : Completes duties and responsibilities in compliance with college standards, policies, guidelines, and applicable state, federal, and TABC / TTB rules. Supports the values and institutional goals as defined in the College’s Strategic Plan and mission. Completes all required training and professional development sessions sponsored by Texas Southmost College ( TSC ).
• Scheduling: Working hours are flexible and may include teaching day, evening, holiday, or weekend hours depending on deadline requirements, program scope, contract timelines and special events.

Physical Demands

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters or must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Physical Activity : Long periods of standing and extensive walking; frequently required to stand (up to 6 hours). Occasionally required to walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Lifting Requirements : Must frequently lift and/or move up to 20 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move between 20 to 50 pounds (such as raw material bags or keg fittings). Vision & Hearing : Ability to hear and see. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Work Environmen t: Typical instructional setting specific to a simulated brewing laboratory space, pilot brewhouse, classroom, or commercial production facility environment. The noise level is usually moderate to loud. While performing duties in the lab, the employee may occasionally work near specialized machinery, steam/hot liquids, pressurized vessels, sanitizing chemicals, moving mechanical parts, and experience a 15-30% environmental hazard exposure. MANDATORY COMPLIANCE & TRAINING The following compliance sessions are required and must be completed within the first 30 days of hire, with annual refreshers thereafter: College-sponsored orientation, standards, and guidelines Anti-Discrimination/Harassment & Title IX Safety/Active Shooter on Campus Personal Information Protection Training ( PIP ) Ethics and Social Responsibility Canvas Certification (if teaching online or hybrid) Criminal history check with acceptable results.