Logistics and Facilities Specialist

Josh Sebright

Knowing what a lab and a lesson need to work on the shop floor.

Josh is a welder, pipefitter and boilermaker turned technical instructor. He worked in the skilled trades from shop fabrication to emergency repair at shipyards, refineries and power plants, then taught and coordinated welding programs at a technical college and a career-technical center. At Eleven Tenths he serves as a client liaison and manages equipment, facilities and site logistics for Information Infrastructure Pre-Apprenticeship cohorts at host colleges in several states.

Where he has done the work

  • Welding Coordinator at Tolles Career & Technical Center in Plain City, Ohio, after a year as its welding instructor
  • Pipe Welding Instructor at Blackhawk Technical College in Wisconsin, 2019 to 2021
  • Apprentice boilermaker with the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Local 107, doing emergency repair at shipyards, refineries and heavy industrial power plants
  • Planned and executed rigging, lifting, mounting and inspection of lifts over 40 tons, and welded exotic metals
  • Pipefitter and welder in field and shop work across Illinois and Wisconsin
Certifications
  • Certified Associate Welding Inspector American Welding Society
  • Pipe 6G and plate 4G TIG, stick, flux core and stainless
  • Safety OSHA 30, OSHA 10 and MSHA 120
  • Rigging, hoist and crane MOD I and II
Education
  • Welding Certificate Kaskaskia College, Vandalia, Illinois
First I2PA cohort

Lead instructor for the first I2PA cohort

When the Information Infrastructure Pre-Apprenticeship opened its first cohort at Tolles Career & Technical Center in Plain City, Ohio, in September 2024, Josh was the lead instructor. By October 2026, twelve cohorts had finished at ten host institutions in eight states.

He now works on the other side of the program, getting equipment, facilities and sites ready for each new cohort and serving as a day-to-day contact for host colleges.

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