Posted 2 days ago
Field Technical instructor
@ GP Strategies
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
GP Strategies is hiring a part-time Field Technical Instructor to deliver performance-based industrial automation training, in-house and at customer sites. The role requires teaching complex technical subjects clearly, maintaining product knowledge, and supporting sales.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver performance-based automation training in-house and at customer sites
- Set up, pack and maintain classroom equipment
- Diagnose student weaknesses and analyze evaluations
- Identify follow-on training and product sales opportunities
- Mentor associates and trainees
Requirements summary:
- Bachelor's degree in technical or industrial education, or 5+ years field experience
- Industrial automation control product knowledge
- Experience teaching PLCs, drives, motion control or networking
- Rockwell Automation Logix5000, PowerFlex and Studio 5000 experience
Tools & skills
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-04
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-04
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-04
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Travel | ground: moderate |
| Work setting | Client sites |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · lift 50 lb · computer moderate |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required) |
| Fields of study | Industrial Education, Electrical Engineering, Technical Instruction |
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GP Strategies
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The Learning Velocity Company™
Full company description
In a world moving at the pace of AI, GP Strategies is The Learning Velocity Company™, amplifying your people’s potential at the speed of opportunity. For 60 years, we’ve been home to the smartest minds in learning and development. Now we’re taking that expertise into the AI-first age, where organizations must learn continuously to stay current. Skills evolve in months, not years. Business strategies shift faster than traditional training cycles. Learning must keep up. We help you learn at the pace your business demands—keeping capabilities current as needs evolve, serving up quality content when people need it, and matching business velocity with learning velocity. We deliver with speed that keeps pace with market change, relevance to your actual work and context, and quality that drives performance through a future-proof skills architecture. Whether launching AI transformation, building skills-based capabilities, or enabling continuous learning, we are the trusted partner that leaders rely on to navigate transformation with confidence.
- LinkedIn followers
- 268,885
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 4,090
- Reported office locations
- 11000 Broken Land Parkway, Suite 200, Columbia, MD 21044, US
- Chamiers Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600035, IN
- 15 Fetter Lane, London, GB
- Business categories
- Skill Assessment
- Training
- Enterprise Software
- Outsourcing
- Other recorded names
- GP Strategies Career Site
- GP Strategies Government Solutions Inc
- GP Strategies
- GP Strategies Corporation
- Specialties
- Training Outsourcing (BPO)
- LMS
- Leadership Development
- Content Development
- Sales Training
- Homeland Security & Emergency Management
- Operational Excellence
- Lean
- Employee Engagement
- eLearning
- Plant Launch
- Engineering: Power Plant Performance
- Design/Build
- Virtual Reality Development & Training
- Learning Experience
- Corporate Training
- learning
- and content design
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- No
- Reported total investment
- 0
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In a world moving at the pace of AI, GP Strategies is The Learning Velocity Company™, amplifying your people’s potential at the speed of opportunity. For 60 years, we’ve been home to the smartest minds in learning and development. Now we’re taking that expertise into the AI-first age, where organizations must learn continuously to stay current. Skills evolve in months, not years. Business strategies shift faster…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Business Consulting and Services |
| Company size | 1,001-5,000 employees |
| Headquarters | Columbia, MD |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Year founded | 1966 |
| Specialties | Training Outsourcing (BPO)LMSLeadership DevelopmentContent DevelopmentSales TrainingHomeland Security & Emergency ManagementOperational ExcellenceLeanEmployee EngagementeLearning |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 3 |
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Description
Position Summary
The Field Technical Instructor position requires an enthusiastic, knowledgeable individual that can convey complex, technical subjects to learners in a clear and interesting way. The FTI must be an excellent communicator and possess solid technical skills in Industrial Automation control products across multiple product families.
This individual will be responsible for further development in terms of classroom presentation skills and technical product knowledge. The FTI, with direction from the immediate supervisor, has responsibility for maintaining his/her utilization required to meet company objectives, and managing his/her schedule in order to upgrade his/her instructional, technical, and product skills.
Job Tasks
Deliver performance-based training for customers both in-house and at the customer site. Align with customers to identify specific training tasks and requirements for tailored and custom delivery. Maintain technical competency in assigned courses while expanding product competency. Maintain and continue to develop instructional/platform skills. Setup, teardown, and properly pack all classroom equipment. Maintain classroom equipment in good working condition. Report any issues that impact delivery or customer satisfaction to management immediately, following up with details in an Instructor Course Assessment Form (ICAF). Communicate with students to identify follow-on opportunities for training and/or product sales. Diagnose student performance weaknesses and select appropriate remedial activities. Analyze student evaluations and take appropriate actions to solve any noted deficiencies. Monitor class evaluations to assure customer satisfaction. Know and understand the target industries. Support sales activities as deemed appropriate. Set a professional example for others and assume the role of mentor for associates and trainees.
Additional Requirements
Lifting: Raising or lowering objects from one level to another (including upward pulling) up to 50 lbs.
Travel: To sites to teach
Minimum Qualifications
Education Required Bachelors’ degree in Industrial Education, Electrical Engineering,
Technical Instruction, or other technical curriculum or 5+ years field experience.
Experience Preferred
Previous teaching experience in Industrial Automation Control field (PLCs, Drives, Motion Control, Industrial Networking, etc.)
Experience using and programming Rockwell Automation hardware including Logix5000 controllers, PowerFlex drives, and HMIs using Studio 5000, and other FactoryTalk software.
With more than 4000 employees in over 30 countries, diversity at GP Strategies is second nature! Beyond our locations, our culture focuses on performance and revolves around respect, fairness, and working collaboratively to achieve our goals. We support our People, no matter who they are or where they are from, because we all have valuable and unique perspectives and approaches. That's how great ideas are born, which enable us to work smarter.
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