Director of Automotive Technical Training & Development

Director of Technical Training Automotive

Auto Hospitality Group Houston TX

14 Locations Full-Time Field-Based

The Opportunity

Auto Hospitality Group is looking for a Director of Technical Training to build and lead technician development across our 14 automotive service locations.

This is not a corporate training position where you spend your days building PowerPoints from an office. We want someone who enjoys being in the shops around technicians teaching coaching and driving development firsthand.

Youll have the opportunity to take ownership of our technician training program and help us build a consistent development system across a growing automotive organization.

Your mission is straightforward: make our technicians better.

That means improving technical knowledge increasing ASE certifications identifying skill gaps developing technicians at different stages of their careers and creating accountability around continued development.

What Youll Own

• Build and continuously improve our company-wide technician training program.
• Conduct hands-on and classroom-based technical training across our 14 locations.
• Develop quarterly and ongoing training calendars based on technician and shop needs.
• Help technicians prepare for and earn ASE certifications including tracking progress and maintaining accountability.
• Assess technicians current skill levels and identify individual development opportunities.
• Create clear development paths for entry-level General Service B-Level and advanced technicians.
• Work directly with shop leadership to identify training gaps and determine where additional coaching is needed.
• Spend significant time inside our locations working directly with technicians and managers.
• Coordinate and leverage manufacturer vendor online and third-party training resources when appropriate.
• Track certifications training completion participation and technician development across the organization.
• Build training that is practical focused and immediately applicable in the shop.
• Help create a culture where technician education and professional development are expectednot optional.
• Adjust the training program as our business technology and technician population evolve.

What Were Looking For

We arent looking for someone who wants to tell us how training was done at their last company.

Were looking for someone who can bring experience and ideas to the table understand how we operate and help build a program that works for our technicians and our shops.

The right person is:

• ASE Master Certified ideally including L1 Advanced Engine Performance
• Experienced as an automotive technician with strong real-world diagnostic and repair knowledge
• Experienced in technician training coaching mentoring or technical development
• Comfortable teaching both in a classroom and standing next to a technician in a service bay
• Able to take complicated technical concepts and explain them in a simple practical engaging way
• Organized enough to manage training and certification progress across 14 locations
• Comfortable holding technicians accountable to development goals
• Proactive and self-directedyou see something that needs to be built and take ownership of it
• Flexible and willing to adapt instead of being locked into one training philosophy or system
• Energetic relatable and capable of earning credibility with technicians and shop leadership

Experience developing technicians within a multi-location automotive organizationsuch as an independent repair group dealership group tire/service organization or national automotive service companyis highly valued.

What This Role Is NOT

• This is not a remote position.
• We dont want our technical trainer disconnected from the technicians theyre responsible for developing.
• Youll regularly rotate between our locations work directly with our teams and see firsthand where technicians are succeeding and where they need help. Mileage or appropriate travel reimbursement will be provided for required travel between locations.
• We also arent looking for training simply for the sake of training. Our goal isnt to overwhelm technicians with information or turn every class into an advanced engineering seminar.

Training needs to translate to the shop floor.

If you can teach something complicated in a way that a technician understands remembers and can actually use the next morning thats what were looking for.

Why Join Auto Hospitality Group

• Were building something different in automotive service.
• As we continue to grow technician development is becoming an increasingly important part of our organization. This role will have significant freedom to help shape what technical training looks like across the company.
• Youll have the opportunity to build a program develop technicians improve careers strengthen our shops and create a training infrastructure capable of scaling alongside our organization.

If youre an experienced automotive professional who loves developing people as much as fixing cars wed like to talk.

Brian Rhodes - -