Director of Training, Welding
A Director of Training for Welding oversees the implementation and consistency of syllabi, lesson plans, and curriculum across all welding instructors, ensuring program objectives are met and instructors deliver to a common standard. This is a sample job description from Excelon Associates that you can adapt as a template for your own hire.
What does a Director of Training for Welding do?
The Director of Training (Welding) oversees the implementation and consistency of syllabi, lesson plans, and curriculum across all instructors. The role ensures syllabi goals and phase objectives are reached, monitors that handouts, videos, and text curriculum stay current and are applied consistently, and trains and develops the welding instructors.
It is a training leadership role within skilled trades education, sitting above the instructor level and connecting the program to school leadership and industry. It supports the education and workforce-training market.
A Director of Training, Welding leads a welding program’s instructional quality and consistency rather than teaching students directly. Welding instruction is commonly aligned to standards from the American Welding Society (AWS), and the role ensures all instructors deliver the curriculum to a common, current standard.
What does the Director oversee?
Key responsibilities of a Director of Training, Welding
- Ensure syllabi goals and phase objectives are reached and that syllabi, lesson plans, and curriculum are followed.
- Monitor all handouts, videos, and text curriculum to ensure they are up to date, applied correctly, and followed consistently among all instructors.
- Help coordinate meetings with school leadership, including the Director of Education and campus leadership, and assist in implementing resulting changes.
- Evaluate prospective instructors’ program tests and, in coordination with the lead instructors, evaluate their interactions in the lab.
- Train and oversee instructors regarding their instructing abilities, and assist instructors or students with their capabilities in an assigned subject.
- Conduct ongoing evaluation of the performance of employees within the program.
- Organize, with the admissions department, outside program in-services, contests, competitions, and demonstrations for recruiting events.
- Attend industry-related association meetings and serve as a board member or volunteer in the local chapter where applicable, ensuring instructors receive related periodicals and meeting information.
- Complete weekly and monthly reports as directed and identify potential problems and solutions through effective analysis.
What qualifications does the role require?
- Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university with a minimum of two years of experience in a related field preferred; a bachelor’s degree with a minimum of ten years of related experience is strongly preferred.
- Five years of welding field experience.
Why is the Director of Training, Welding role important?
Welding programs depend on consistent, high-quality instruction. The Director of Training ensures instructors deliver the curriculum the same way, keeps the program current with industry standards, and connects it to industry and recruitment, which protects both training quality and the program’s reputation with employers.
Because the role bridges the shop floor and the classroom, the strongest directors are experienced welders who can also lead and develop other instructors. Technical mastery alone is not enough: the job is about raising the whole instructional team to a common standard.
A hiring note from Excelon
Training leadership in the trades calls for credibility on the shop floor plus the ability to develop other instructors. Through our education and workforce practice, we look for seasoned welders who can evaluate instruction, hold curriculum consistency, and represent the program to industry, since the best welders do not automatically make the best trainers of trainers.
The strongest directors are experienced welders who can also lead and develop other instructors.
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Director of Training, Welding: frequently asked questions
What does a Director of Training for Welding do?
A Director of Training for Welding oversees the implementation and consistency of syllabi, lesson plans, and curriculum across all welding instructors, ensuring program objectives are met and supporting instructor development and recruiting events.
What qualifications does the role require?
This sample role prefers a bachelor’s degree from a four-year college with at least two years in a related field, with a bachelor’s plus ten years strongly preferred, and at least five years of welding field experience.
How is this different from a welding instructor?
A welding instructor teaches students directly, while the Director of Training leads and develops the instructors, ensuring curriculum consistency, evaluating prospective instructors, and aligning the program with school leadership.
Does the role involve industry engagement?
Yes. The role attends industry association meetings, serves as a board member or volunteer where applicable, and organizes program demonstrations and competitions at recruiting events.
Why is this role important?
Welding programs depend on consistent, high-quality instruction. The Director of Training ensures instructors deliver the curriculum the same way, keeps the program current, and connects it to industry and recruitment.
Hiring a Director of Training for Welding?
Excelon Associates recruits training directors, lead instructors, and skilled trades education leaders for technical schools and workforce-training providers across the United States through our education recruitment practice. Retained executive search since 2007, headquartered in Asheville, NC, with offices in Boca Raton and Delray Beach, FL.
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