Sail Loft Instructor

Sail Loft Instructor, Joint Base Charleston Brig

Position Title: Sail Loft Instructor, Joint Base Charleston Brig, Full-Time

Location: Charleston, S.C/ Onsite

Department: Veritas Management Group/ASAP

Summary:

Seeking a Sail Loft Instructor capable of demonstrating procedures, answering questions, and providing training to prisoners enrolled in the Sail Loft instruction program. Instructor shall monitor prisoner education and training assignments to ensure prisoners receive the opportunity to develop skills associated within the industrial sewing, embroidery, and upholstery industry.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

Operating Machinery:

• Will operate, maintain, and repair a Consew Industrial Sewing machine.

• Operate, maintain, and perform minor repair of a Tajima Embroidery machine, to include the ability to set up different and complex hoops for the machines.

Create, Prepare, and Distribute Records and Reporting:

• Prepare, maintain, and keep current all training records for each prisoner enrolled in the Sail Loft program.

• Training records shall be readily available upon request by the COR or Industries Shop Department Head. Training record shall include up to date status on training project completions, certifications/milestones achieved, with a copy of the training reports submitted to the Prisoner Management Department/Industries Department. Training records will be utilized to support issuance/completion of a South Carolina Dept. of Labor Certification in Furniture Upholstery.

• Provide monthly summary reports outlining performance evaluation ratings on each prisoner's education and training progress by the 2nd to last Wednesday of each month (i.e., reports will address prisoner participation in the program, attitude, and work relationships with employees and fellow prisoners, training completion, and certifications received).

Support Maintenance of Equipment, Materials/Supplies, and Work Orders:

• Forecast supplies and provide an itemized materials/equipment list to include pricing information for all work orders. The itemized list shall state the training task(s) and/or work order(s) and the material/equipment support.

• Responsible for all finished work order product's level of quality. Should aspects of the final work product not meet industry quality standard during inspection, all necessary corrections must be resubmitted for inspection/acceptance.

• Establish and maintain a file for each individual work order.

• Work order files shall be made readily available upon request by the COR. Work order files shall be sequentially numbered, include the work order request (i.e., email print-out), document use of current stock or ordered material, and report start and completion dates.

Education and/or Experience

• Must have a High School Education or GED
• 2 years technical college or 5 years on the job training
• Minimum experience 5 years in one or more relevant trades

• Must have one year of experience operating the following software:

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adapt Corel
• Photoshop CS4
• Tajima DG/ML digitizing software
• Must pass Background Check

 Preferred Experience

•  Experience working in a Correctional Facility preferred
• Military experience preferred