Manager, Craft Workforce Development

Location: Phoenix, AZ, United States

Company

hirify.global delivers complex construction projects, including semiconductor, advanced manufacturing, and other highly technical environments.

What you will do

• Lead the registered apprenticeship program across multiple states, projects, trades, operations, instructors, and external partners.
• Own the apprentice lifecycle from enrollment and onboarding through progression, completion, and offboarding.
• Connect related technical instruction with on-the-job training, hands-on practice, mentorship, and career progression.
• Develop instructors, journeyworkers, supervisors, and craft professionals as effective teachers and mentors.
• Manage program budgets, KPIs, enrollment forecasts, resource needs, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Build partnerships with industry associations, education providers, workforce organizations, apprenticeship agencies, and construction partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, workforce development, education, business, human resources, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience considered.
• At least 5 years of progressive experience in apprenticeship, workforce development, craft training, or a related field.
• Direct experience managing a registered apprenticeship program is required.
• Experience with federal and state apprenticeship, prevailing-wage, certified-payroll, apprentice-utilization, wage-progression, and workforce-compliance requirements is required.
• Experience supporting skilled trades or field-based workforces, preferably in construction, AEC, utilities, energy, manufacturing, or another complex skilled-trades environment.
• Experience working with the Department of Labor, state apprenticeship agencies, regulatory bodies, apprentices, instructors, operations, and external partners.

Nice to have

• Experience with Davis-Bacon Act, CHIPS and Science Act, and Inflation Reduction Act requirements.
• Experience with NCCER requirements and apprenticeship audits.
• Experience developing adult-learning approaches, simulation, immersive learning, AR/VR, mobile resources, or visual instruction.
• Experience securing grants, public workforce funding, educational partnerships, or other external resources.

Culture & Benefits

• Focus on expanding access to construction careers and strengthening skilled-trades pathways.
• Opportunity to apply HITT facilities, learning resources, subject-matter expertise, and industry relationships to craft development.
• Work spans technical instruction, hands-on learning, mentorship, operational delivery, and community workforce development.
• Commitment to a respectful, inclusive, and drug-free workplace.