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Infrastructure Workforce Training from Per Scholas

Build resilient teams for the critical roles that keep infrastructure running. Per Scholas trains job-ready professionals for utility providers, energy facilities, industrial plants, and other infrastructure sectors, backed by a network of more than 1,000 employer partners nationwide.

Proven Success

  • 500+

    Infrastructure Professionals Trained in Three Years

  • 25+

    Markets Nationwide

  • 35,000+

    Per Scholas Professionals in the Workforce

Why Build a Talent Pipeline?

The AI era has created a boom that the current technological infrastructure cannot absorb. Demand for talented individuals across data centers, utilities, industrial and manufacturing hubs, and energy facilities is accelerating beyond expectations.

Traditional talent pools are limited, with qualified personnel in short supply. Per Scholas grows talent pools by training specifically for roles you can't fill through conventional recruitment and by creating net-new qualified entrants, increasing the volume of skilled talent for your business.

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Rigorous Training for Real Operational Requirements

Per Scholas develops training programs in direct collaboration with industry leaders. Learners benefit from instructor-led live lectures and events, with hands-on, real-life experience that expands their knowledge beyond theory.

The result is talent with exceptional operational readiness and procedural discipline, and fluency with the AI-powered monitoring and diagnostic tools now built into modern facilities. Alumni continue honing their skills via the Career Accelerator upskilling program long after they're hired.

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Microsoft and Per Scholas Partnership

Microsoft and Per Scholas co-designed the inaugural Critical Facilities Technician Training cohort in Atlanta, built as a demand-driven pipeline aligned with Microsoft's data center workforce needs.

Mike Egan, General Manager of Microsoft TechSpark, said, "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."

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Roles We Train For

Per Scholas trains for many gaps in critical areas of infrastructure.

Additional Infrastructure Roles Coming Soon

Per Scholas is expanding training to cover even more of the roles powering critical infrastructure.

Infrastructure Courses Available

6 Matching Courses Found

  • Build the physical connections that keep workplaces, devices, and data centers online. In 5.5 weeks of no-cost, hands-on training, learn to install and test cabling, handle fiber safely, and connect and troubleshoot networks for entry-level technician roles. Prepare to earn OSHA 10-Hour and NFPA 70E certifications at no cost to you. These help show employers your electrical and jobsite safety knowledge.

    6 weeks165 training hoursIT Service Management (ITSM) Fundamentals · OSHA-10 General Industry · OSHA NFPA 70E · Welcome to ServiceNow
  • Install and maintain the cabling that keeps businesses, networks, and data centers connected. In 11 weeks of no-cost, hands-on training learn to install, test, and troubleshoot copper and fiber-optic cabling and document support work using AI and ServiceNow. Prepare to earn OSHA 10-Hour and NFPA 70E certifications at no cost to you. These help show employers your workplace and electrical safety knowledge.

    10 weeks275 training hoursFOA Certified Fiber Optic Technician (CFOT) · Google AI Essentials · Google AI Professional · IT Service Management (ITSM) Fundamentals · NFPA 70E Electrical Safety · OSHA-10 General Industry · Welcome to ServiceNow
  • Work behind the scenes to keep the servers, networks, and physical systems that power cloud services, streaming, online banking, and AI running around the clock. In 15 weeks of no-cost, hands-on training, build core IT support skills and apply them to data center equipment, power, cooling, and security systems. Prepare to earn CompTIA A+, Google IT Support and AI Professional, OSHA 10-Hour, and NFPA 70E credentials at no cost to you. These credentials help show employers your IT support knowledge, workplace AI skills, and readiness to work safely in data center environments.

    15 weeks412.5 training hoursCompTIA A+ · Google IT Support · Google AI Essentials · Google AI Professional · OSHA-10 General Industry · OSHA NFPA 70E0% loan eligible
  • Help keep data centers and other essential facilities powered, cooled, and running safely. In 15 weeks of no-cost, hands-on training, learn to operate and troubleshoot HVAC, mechanical, electrical, and control systems. Prepare for entry-level critical facilities roles and EPA 608 and safety certifications at no cost to you. These credentials help show employers you are ready to work safely around essential building systems.

    15 weeks412.5 training hours
  • Help keep data centers and other essential facilities powered, cooled, and running safely. In 15 weeks of no-cost, hands-on training, learn to operate and troubleshoot HVAC, mechanical, electrical, and control systems. Prepare for entry-level critical facilities roles and EPA 608 and safety certifications at no cost to you. These credentials help show employers you are ready to work safely around essential building systems.

    15 weeks412.5 training hoursEPA 608 · NFPA 70E Electrical Safety · OSHA-10 General Industry
  • 4 weeks110 training hours

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