Wage Agency Instructor - Heavy Equipment - South Texas

Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service
Brownsville, Texas United States  View Map
Posted: Jun 12, 2025
  • Part Time
  • Education and Training
  • Job Description

    Job Title
    Wage Agency Instructor - Heavy Equipment - South Texas

    Agency
    Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service

    Department
    Infrastructure Training And Safety Institute

    Proposed Minimum Salary
    Commensurate

    Job Location
    Brownsville, Texas

    Job Type
    Temporary/Casual Staff (Fixed Term)

    Job Description

    Wage Agency Instructor - South Texas

    $45.00 per hour

    2 positions to be filled

    Temporary/Casual Position

    Within 300 Miles of Brownsville, TX

    The Role at a Glance

    The Wage Agency Instructor, under direction, assists in training various specialty skilled and/or semi-skilled courses within a specified program. Utilizes knowledge of adult learning theories and learning styles to help maximize learner success and ensure overall effectiveness of the course instruction. Performs online and/or classroom instruction, field-based skills training, and/or may provide technical assistance in a specialty area. Uses a variety of media to present course material. May assist in creating new and/or updating curriculum content, when necessary, to meet learner needs.

    This position reports to the Training Manager, Transportation & Heavy Equipment.

    Qualifications of the Role
    • High School Diploma or GED.
    • Four years heavy equipment operations to include experience on two or more of the following: Aerial Work Platforms, Backhoe, Bulldozer, Dump Truck, Excavator, Forklift, Front End Loader, Maintainer, and Skid Steer.
    • One year of adult education and/or training.
    • Must have a valid motor vehicle operator’s license or ability to obtain within 30 days of employment.


    About Us

    The Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) is an internationally recognized leader in emergency response training, workforce training, and technical assistance. Major TEEX competencies include fire and rescue, infrastructure and safety, law enforcement, cybersecurity, economic and workforce development, and homeland security. Every TEEX employee has a direct impact on Making a Difference to the professionals who respond to emergencies, safeguard communities, and ultimately save lives.

    We are focused on enhancing organizational effectiveness by creating an optimal work environment that empowers employees to improve themselves and their communities. Additionally, we offer competitive salaries and benefits, value work/life balance, and support employees’ education and professional development.

    Benefits You Can Expect from TEEX

    Wage Employee Benefits
    • Flexible work schedule on an as-needed basis, perfect for supplemental income.
    • Optional retirement savings programs through The Texas A&M University System.
    • Time as a wage employee with TEEX counts toward Lifetime and State Service for State of Texas full-time employee benefits.


    Build Your Career
    • Expand your network and build lasting connections with industry experts and peers.
    • Enhance your skills and professional growth while representing a world-class organization.
    • Learn more about the career paths and professional development opportunities available to all TEEX employees.


    TEEX Employer Notices Military Crosswalk Info

    Applications must either have all job application data entered, or a resume attached. Not doing so could result in an incomplete submission and a rejected application. We encourage all applicants to upload a resume or use a LinkedIn profile to pre-populate the online application.

    All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

    Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.
  • ABOUT THE COMPANY

    • TEEX Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service
    • TEEX Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service

    It comes down to saving lives. From providing emergency responders to disasters across the state and nation to developing training and practical workforce solutions, TEEX makes a difference worldwide. More than 174,000 people representing every U.S. state and 109 countries are served annually through on-site and online resources for specialties from homeland security to economic development and workforce training.

    Home to some of the world’s top training facilities, the emergency preparedness campus in Bryan/College Station includes the Brayton Fire Training Field, Disaster City® and the Emergency Operations Training Center. Customized TEEX training programs develop practical solutions for each client’s need through hands-on instructional facilities for public utilities, law enforcement and unexploded ordinance training at the home campus or at customer-specified locations worldwide.

    Texas A&M Task Force 1 and Texas Task Force 2, the state’s elite urban search and rescue teams, are sponsored by TEEX. Throughout its existence, TX-TF1 has served the state of Texas and the nation by participating in over 100 deployments, completing search and rescue missions with highly trained and qualified personnel.

    As part of the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium and home to the National Emergency Response and Recovery Training Center, TEEX has been leading homeland security training since 1998.

    The major TEEX programs include fire and rescue, infrastructure and safety, law enforcement, economic and workforce development, and homeland security. As a member of The Texas A&M University System, TEEX is unique in its ability to access a broad range of emerging research and technical expertise. Beginning with course design and development all the way through hands-on instruction and national certification testing, TEEX delivers comprehensive training through both classroom and hands-on instruction and as online courses. Hosting services for online courses, technical assistance and technology validation, and bilingual training and translation services also are available.

    By placing safety and well-being above all and by focusing on prevention and response, TEEX has become a comprehensive training provider through more than 80 years of extension training. Working with other agencies and encouraging involvement has led to better fire safety and emergency response, cleaner drinking water, better roads and infrastructure, improved homeland security, safer workplaces, heightened public safety and security, new therapeutics manufacturing and the evolution of cybersecurity.

    Through innovative programs and adaptive outreach, TEEX services are created to train the people who expand the security, occupational and economic development of Texas and beyond.​​​

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