Public Works Academy prepares you for careers in Public Works and provides continuing education for those who wish wish to advance their careers. As a high school graduate, you’ll quality for Cadet Training, giving you the opportunity for a great career. You’ll get immediate hands-on experience in a job where you can really make a difference. The admission process includes an interview, letters of recommendation, evaluation, career counseling and orientation.

The next level of the Public Works Academy is Technical Training with an emphasis on apprenticeship and upgraded technical Ed programs. The third level of PWA is Advanced Career Development, or continuing education for Public Works employees who want to advance in their careers or transfer to another department within public works. These two levels can help earn a promotion or lead to a management position.

We have five full-time instructors with a combined total of 105 years of experience and 22 volunteer instructors. PWA instructors are employees of city and county government agencies as well as private contractors. Our instructors must meet Florida Department of Education standards for certification. In addition to our instructors, we also utilize Public works ‘heavy equipment as part of the hands-on trainings portion of the cadet trainings program.