Fluor’s Gulf Coast Craft Training Center
Senior Talent Development Specialist
When Clemon Prevost was a kid, he noticed the repairman who would come to the house to fix the TV earned as much in an hour as his dad did for a whole day’s work. So by 13 years old, the self-taught, budding electrician became the neighborhood TV repairman.
“What sparked my interest in the electrical field may have been kind of immature,” Prevost recalls, “but after 42 years in the industry, I’m still here.”
Countless students are grateful that’s the case. After three decades as a craft professional, Prevost turned to teaching, first at Remington College and now as a senior talent development specialist at Fluor’s Gulf Coast Craft Training Center in Pasadena, Texas. There, 169 students have completed electrical training under Prevost’s guidance, with 78 percent of them working as of Nov. 1, 2018. He has delivered 314,603 manhours of craft training without a safety incident, as well as earned the top trainee attendance award for 12 straight sessions.
Those numbers alone make Prevost a worthy recipient of Associated Builders and Contractors’ 2019 Craft Instructor of the Year award—which he received in March from sponsors NCCER and Tradesmen International—but the job means so much more to him than just turning out skilled workers.
“On the first day of class, I tell the students I’m going to give 110%, and I only ask them to give 100%. The instructor should be all in, mind and soul,” he says. “My students can feel the passion and know I really care for them.”
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