Why Build a Pipeline for Critical Infrastructure Roles?
- Demand is accelerating across data centers, energy, utilities, and industrial facilities while qualified workers remain in short supply. The AI era is driving an infrastructure and manufacturing buildout the current U.S. workforce was not trained to absorb.
- Traditional hiring strategies redistribute a limited pool. Salary increases and lateral moves shift workers between employers without adding new supply to the market.
- Per Scholas builds the pipelines that grow the pool. Employer-aligned training creates net-new technologists ready to step into critical infrastructure roles, giving your organization a consistent and predictable source of qualified talent.
1,000+ Employer Partners
Per Scholas works with more than 1,000 employer partners across 20+ industries, including leading data center operators, manufacturers, and energy firms.
Ongoing Support
Per Scholas supports our talent with access to upskilling at no cost after they’re hired, building toward success and improving staff retention.
30-50% Higher Retention
Higher retention rate for Per Scholas technologists vs. traditional hires.
Rigorous Training For Real Operational Requirements
- Programs are instructor-led and delivered live, with hands-on training tied directly to the systems and workflows employers use in the field.
- Every Per Scholas critical infrastructure program is developed in direct collaboration with industry leaders, ensuring the curriculum is aligned to real job requirements.
- Graduates are job-ready from day one, with the procedural discipline and technical fluency to operate in high-stakes environments.
Every Per Scholas critical infrastructure technician graduates day-one ready
- Foundational expertise across mission-critical infrastructure, regardless of program pathway
- Operation and monitoring of facilities, equipment, and critical systems
- Fault isolation and troubleshooting using alarms, diagnostics, and structured methodologies
- Execution of SOPs and EOPs in compliance with safety standards and regulatory codes
- Analysis of sensor data and performance metrics to identify trends and prevent downtime
- Technical documentation through shift logs, service tickets, work orders, and incident reporting
We build pipelines for the critical infrastructure roles hardest to fill through traditional hiring.
Critical Facility Technician
- Critical Facility Technician
- Critical Environments Technician
Data Center Technician
- Network Technician
- Data Center Technician
- IT Infrastructure Manager
Low Voltage Technician
- Low Voltage Fiber Technician
- Security and Alarm Technician
- Audio-Video Technician
Advanced Manufacturing Technician
- Manufacturing Technicians
- Maintenance and Repair Worker
- Industrial Automation Technologist
Additional critical infrastructure roles and pipelines available soon
Building Automation Specialist
- BAS Technician
- Controls Installer
- Junior Controls Programmer
- HVAC Controls Technician
Semiconductor Technician
- Semiconductor Processing Technician
- Fab Operator
"By working with Per Scholas to co-design this program, we're helping ensure students are equipped with the skills that lead to direct careers and are working together to build a talent pipeline and create opportunity for people locally."
Mike Egan, General Manager, Microsoft TechSpark
Per Scholas and Microsoft co-designed the inaugural Critical Facilities Technician Training cohort in Atlanta, building a demand-driven pipeline directly aligned to Microsoft’s data center workforce requirements.
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