
Training Specialist II (Salary)
Austin, TXFull-time$45K/yrPosted 3w agoStill listed today
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The Training Specialist II provides training and employee development for staff in the Custodial Services division and ensures program compliance. The role delivers classroom and field instruction, conducts compliance audits, provides retraining, and supports employees in the Transitional Work Program. It also promotes professional development opportunities and maintains training attendance records and reports.
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Job Posting Title: Training Specialist II (Salary)---- Hiring Department: Facilities Services---- Position Open To: All Applicants---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40---- FLSA Status: Non-Exempt from FLSA---- Earliest Start Date: Immediately---- Position Duration: Expected to Continue---- Location: UT MAIN CAMPUS---- Job Details: General Notes You belong at The University of Texas at Austin, where you can help change the world at work while receiving competitive pay and great benefits!
What sets you apart when you join UT?
As a Longhorn, you'll be working for a globally recognized university. Your work will make a difference in the lives of faculty and staff, thereby enhancing the student experience. If you're the type of person who wants to know your work has meaning and impact, you'll like becoming a member of the Facilities Services team at UT.
With Facilities Services, you'll have opportunities to grow and learn. We believe that everyone has the potential to be a leader, and we offer comprehensive leadership training and development programs. We want to help you achieve your career goals, because our goal is for you to have a long and rewarding career with us.
What benefits do I receive with UT? The university offers an impressive benefits package including, but not limited to:
- Competitive health benefits (employee premiums covered at 100%, family premiums at 50%)
- Voluntary Vision, Dental, Life, and Disability insurance options
- Generous paid vacation, sick time, and holidays
- Teachers Retirement System of Texas, a defined benefit retirement plan, with 8.25% employer matching funds
- Additional Voluntary Retirement Programs: Tax Sheltered Annuity 403(b) and a Deferred Compensation program 457(b)
- Flexible spending account options for medical and childcare expenses
- Robust free training access through LinkedIn Learning plus professional conference opportunities
- Tuition assistance
- Expansive employee discount program including athletic tickets
- Free access to UT Austin's libraries and museums with staff ID card
- Free rides on all UT Shuttle and Austin CapMetro buses with staff ID card
For more details on benefits, please see: https://hr.utexas.edu/prospective/benefits and https://hr.utexas.edu/current/services/my-total-rewards.
For more information, assistance with completing an application, or other questions about joining Facilities Services, FS-Recruitment at [email protected] 512-475-7097.
Purpose Provide training and employee development opportunities for staff in the Custodial Services division. Ensure program compliance.
Responsibilities
- Promote the health and well-being of university community through instruction in sustainable standardized processes.
- Provide designated classroom training. Responsible for organizing and teaching classes or groups and arranging for classrooms,equipment, and instructional material to be used by class.
- Provide standardized process and regulatory compliance training in the field. Perform compliance field audits to identify retraining requirements.
- Administer on the spot retraining and/or maintain records recommending individuals for remedial training classes.
- Train employees in the Transitional Work Program in accordance with medical restrictions and monitor the effectiveness of the assignment.
- Maintain records of class attendance and compile reports related to monthly training.
- Drive university vehicle.
- Promote interest in voluntary classes and professional development opportunities.
- Other related functions as assigned.
Required Qualifications High school diploma or GED. Demonstrated experience training custodians or other facilities personnel. Demonstrated experience in public speaking/presentation skills. Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office products. Experience following complex work instructions. Experience communicating and interacting with a wide range of populations. Excellent communication and organizational skills, interpersonal skills, and customer services skills. Ability to meet deadlines. Regular and punctual attendance is required.
Equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
Preferred Qualifications Bachelor's degree. More than two years of experience training custodians or other facilities personnel. Experience administering adult training programs. Experience in OS1 or team cleaning programs. Proficiency in multiple languages such as English, Spanish, ASL, French, Portuguese, Kinyarwanda and Vietnamese.
Driving Required This job requires a class "C" operator's driver's license. The applicant selected must provide a current three year driving record from the current state of residence. If not currently a Texas resident, a Texas driver's license must be obtained within 30 days of becoming a Texas resident. Employees who are required to have a CDL are subject to drug and alcohol testing (pre-employment, post-accident, reasonable suspicion, random, return-to-duty, and follow-up drug and alcohol testing).
Salary $45,000+ (depending on qualifications)
Working Conditions Environmental Demands
- May work around standard office conditions.
- May work around chemicals.
- Continuous standing and walking.
- Must wear uniforms and personal protective equipment
Physical Tasks
- Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation.
- Use of manual dexterity.
- Climbing of stairs.
- Climbing of ladders.
- Lifting/moving and pushing/pulling.
Work in a fast-paced work environment with overlapping deadlines. Direct client contact. Work in a team environment. Other related as assigned such as traveling to meetings, managing projects, serving on a variety of committees, etc.
Work Schedule Monday – Friday, 5:30 pm – 2:00 am. Occasional work outside the normal schedule, including up to six days per month reporting at 3:00 pm for new hire orientation sessions. May include up to ten days per year of weekend work.
Required Materials
- Resume/CV
- 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
- Letter of Interest
Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded. Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.
Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.
Employment Eligibility: Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.---- Retirement Plan Eligibility: The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.---- Background Checks: A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.
Equal Opportunity Employer: The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.
Pay Transparency: The University of Texas at Austin will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
Employment Eligibility Verification: If hired, you will be required to complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form. You will be required to present acceptable and original documents to prove your identity and authorization to work in the United States. Documents need to be presented no later than the third day of employment. Failure to do so will result in loss of employment at the university.
E-Verify: The University of Texas at Austin use E-Verify to check the work authorization of all new hires effective May 2015. The university’s company ID number for purposes of E-Verify is 854197. For more information about E-Verify, please see the following:
- E-Verify Poster (English and Spanish) [PDF]
- Right to Work Poster (English) [PDF]
- Right to Work Poster (Spanish) [PDF]
Compliance: Employees may be required to report violations of law under Title IX and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). If this position is identified a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified and provided resources for reporting. Responsible employees under Title IX are defined and outlined in HOP-3031.
The Clery Act requires all prospective employees be notified of the availability of the Annual Security and Fire Safety report. You may access the most recent report here or obtain a copy at University Compliance Services, 1616 Guadalupe Street, UTA 2.206, Austin, Texas 78701.
How this job compares
Set against the 652 open Training Specialist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$45K/yr
- US median$70–97K/yr362 salary ranges
This rate, $45K, is 46% below the US median midpoint ($83K) — in the lowest quarter of Training Specialist salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 48 open Training Specialist jobs in Texas and 652 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)6 open
- UTMB Health3 open
- Clean Harbors2 open
- Experience
- Training Specialist postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (497 postings).
- Education
- 144 of the 652 open Training Specialist jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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