Trainer Adjunct -Craft Brewing Workforce Training and Continuing Education

Texas Southmost College; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 34,440 - 55,104; Part time

Job summary

Texas Southmost College is seeking an adjunct trainer to design and deliver customized, non-credit workforce training for the beverage, hospitality, and manufacturing workforce. The role is project-based with assignments driven by employer demand, contract timelines, and workforce initiatives.

Responsibilities include developing lesson plans, delivering instruction in various settings (classroom, lab, production), and maintaining compliance with college policies and safety standards.

Qualifications

• Non-credit workforce training aligned to employer needs and contractual requirements.
• Develop learner-centered lesson plans and teaching strategies for adults.
• Deliver instruction in corporate, classroom, laboratory, brewing facility, virtual, or hybrid environments.

Responsibilities

• Instructional Delivery: deliver project-based, non-credit workforce training for employers.
• Curriculum & Materials: customize curriculum and instructional materials for training engagements.
• Assessment & Compliance: administer assessments and document learner outcomes and records.
• Operational & Facility Oversight: maintain training spaces and equipment to ensure safety and cleanliness.
• Professionalism & Morale: maintain punctuality, adapt teaching to diverse learners, provide customer service.
• Institutional Alignment: comply with college standards and policies, participate in required trainings.

Skills

Teaching

Curriculum design

Assessment & evaluation

Operations & safety

Tools

Inventory management software

Brewing lab equipment

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 non‑credit 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. 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, 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, raw ingredients, and inventory software to ensure safety, hygiene, and sterility.
• Professionalism & Morale: Attend the workplace regularly, report to work punctually, and follow the work schedule to meet demands. Adapt teaching strategies to adult learners with diverse experience levels and learning styles. Promote positive morale and teamwork, provide exceptional customer service, and model key employability skills such as adaptability, communication, and responsibility.
• Institutional Alignment: Complete duties in compliance with college standards, policies, guidelines, and applicable state, federal, and TABC/TTB rules. Support the values and institutional goals as defined in the College’s Strategic Plan and mission. Complete required training and professional development sessions sponsored by Texas Southmost College (TSC).
• Scheduling: Work 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

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

• 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 ability to adjust focus.
• Work Environment: Typical instructional setting in a simulated brewing laboratory, pilot brewhouse, classroom, or commercial production facility. Noise level usually moderate to loud. May occasionally work near specialized machinery, steam/hot liquids, pressurized vessels, sanitizing chemicals, moving mechanical parts, with 15‑30% environmental hazard exposure.

Mandatory Compliance & Training

• 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.