Job Summary
The Technical Trainer leads Power Test ACADEMY™ — the company’s strategic training function serving customers, distributors, and internal teams across Power Test’s product portfolio. This role positions PT ACADEMY™ as a core business capability, a competitive differentiator, and a visible brand, accountable for learner capability, program quality, enrollment growth, and long-term customer success.
This is a trainer-first role with a strong marketing dimension. The Technical Trainer personally designs and delivers hands-on, experiential, performance-based learning — moving the organization beyond classroom- and PowerPoint-only instruction toward training measured by what learners can safely and confidently do. Programs are structured around defined learner personas and application streams — including Dynamometers and Hydraulics — while maintaining foundational, stream-agnostic offerings such as measurement accuracy and calibration.
The role blends instructional craft, marketing and brand ownership, and technical fluency. Success requires the ability to personally instruct complex systems, the marketing instinct to position PT ACADEMY™ as a sought-after program, and the program discipline to scale it through curriculum architecture, instructors, and modern digital tools.
Essential Functions
Training Delivery & Instructional Design
- Personally design and deliver two-day, instructor-led, hands-on training programs using real equipment, live data, and scenario-driven labs.
- Structure training around defined learner personas (operators, skilled operators, specialists, engineers/leaders), tailoring depth, pace, and assessment accordingly.
- Build curricula that follow a clear progression: foundational knowledge → applied reasoning → hands-on mastery.
- Develop hands-on competency demonstrations and skill validations that confirm learner readiness and safe operation.
- Preserve and evolve core, stream-agnostic programs (e.g., Accuracy & Calibration) that apply across hardware, software, and applications.
Program & Brand Ownership
- Own Power Test ACADEMY™ end-to-end — curriculum vision, course portfolio, learner experience, brand identity, success metrics, and long-term roadmap.
- Position and market PT ACADEMY™ as a sought-after program: develop messaging, visual identity, landing pages, and enrollment campaigns that drive demand from customers and distributors.
- Build the PT ACADEMY™ content presence — course catalogs, promotional video, case studies, learner testimonials, and social content — partnering with Marketing on channel execution.
- Plan and execute domestic and international training events and road shows, including logistics, enrollment, learner outcomes, and ROI reporting.
Scale & Enablement
- Build and deliver internal enablement programs for Technical Support, Field Service, Sales, Application Engineers, and new hires — aligned with customer-facing PT ACADEMY™ content.
- Scale PT ACADEMY™ globally through train-the-trainer programs, distributor enablement, standardized instructor materials, and localized delivery.
- Leverage modern instructional tools — AI-assisted documentation, video, interactive content, simulations, and LMS platforms — to scale reach without diluting quality.
- Collect learner feedback, measure outcomes, and continuously improve programs based on data and real-world performance.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Proven experience designing and delivering hands-on, experience-based technical training (labs, scenarios, simulations) — not slide-only instruction.
- Demonstrated skill in live facilitation — reading learners, adjusting pace, coaching through mistakes, and creating a safe, engaging learning environment.
- Ability to explain complex technical systems using intuitive mental models, analogies, and real-world examples.
- Marketing and brand sensibility — able to position a training program as a product, craft messaging that drives enrollment, and produce on-brand content (written, video, web).
- Strong on-camera and on-stage presence; comfortable presenting to audiences ranging from shop technicians to executives, and in front of customers.
- Hands-on fluency with modern digital learning and content tools (AI, video production, interactive content, LMS platforms).
- Technical aptitude sufficient to credibly instruct complex systems — dynamometers, DAQ, instrumentation, controls, VFDs, and calibration concepts — with the willingness and ability to rapidly deepen that knowledge.
- Experience validating learner competency through hands-on demonstrations or performance-based assessments.
- Business-minded approach to training, with comfort around outcomes, adoption, enrollment growth, and program performance tracking.
- Familiarity with ANSI/IACET or equivalent adult-learning and continuing-education standards preferred.
Preferred Skills
Education and Experience Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred in a technical, instructional design, communications, or marketing discipline — or equivalent experience. Self-taught experts, military-trained technicians, and field-earned expertise are welcome.
- Experience: 7+ years combining several of the following:
- Technical training, instructional design, or corporate education with hands-on / experiential program design.
- Marketing, brand, or content ownership — ideally for a training program, technical product, or B2B service.
- Test equipment, instrumentation, power electronics, or industrial controls — as instructor, technician, field engineer, or product specialist.
- Modern training tools — AI, video production, interactive content, LMS.
- Program ownership with revenue, enrollment, or outcome accountability.
- Demonstrated ability to build and scale a training function independently.
- Valid driver’s license and good driving record.
- Ability to travel 30–40% domestically and internationally.
- Ability to obtain a passport within 30 days of employment.
Core Competencies
- Hands-On & Experiential Instructional Design
Designs training learners do, not sit through; emphasizes labs, scenarios, and real-world problem solving. - Instructional Facilitation & Coaching
Reads the room, adapts in real time, coaches learners through errors, and builds confidence through practice. - Program & Brand Ownership
Operates PT ACADEMY™ as a product with defined standards, positioning, visual identity, and long-term value. - Marketing & Storytelling
Positions PT ACADEMY™ in market, crafts messaging that drives enrollment, and produces compelling content across video, web, and live channels. - Digital & AI-Enabled Training Toolset
Uses AI, video, simulations, and LMS platforms to scale content while maintaining instructional quality. - Technical Fluency & Curiosity
Builds working understanding of Power Test systems and emerging test methods sufficient to instruct with credibility; commits to continuous learning. - Cross-Functional Influence
Partners with Engineering, Service, Applications, Sales, and Marketing to ensure training accuracy, relevance, and reach. - Customer Focus & Continuous Improvement
Monitors learner satisfaction and outcomes; iterates programs based on feedback and performance data. - Achievement Focus
Sets and meets challenging goals; persists through obstacles; measures success against high standards. - Teamwork
Builds positive working relationships; values feedback; contributes to shared organizational success.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand for extended periods during instruction, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The employee will work in a combination of office, classroom, laboratory, and customer facility environments, with frequent exposure to manufacturing, test cell, and field environments near moving mechanical parts, fuel, coolant, and electrical voltage sources. The noise level in the plant and test cell environment is usually loud. Frequent domestic and international travel is required.
EEO Statement
The client company and Insperity provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants in all company facilities without regard to race (including hair texture and hairstyles), color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental and/or intellectual disability, age, military status, veteran status (including protected veterans), marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, familial status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.