Welding Program Lead Instructor
Full Time
Hampton, VA
$65,000 - $75,000 a year
Posted
Job description
Title: Welding Program Lead Instructor
Agency: Virginia Peninsula Community College
Location: Hampton - 650
FLSA: Exempt
Hiring Range: $65,000 - $75,000
Full Time or Part Time: Full Time
Additional Detail
Job Description:
Virginia Peninsula Community College (VPCC) changes lives, empowers students to succeed, and enhances the civic and economic vitality of the Peninsula community through high quality education and workforce training, excellent services, and innovative partnerships.
Virginia Peninsula Community College is committed to creating and sustaining learning opportunities and experiences that foster competent learners, workers, and community members. The goals of the Workforce Development division are consistent with the mission and goals of the college and the Vice President for Workforce Development and Innovation.
The Welding Program Lead Instructor will provide instruction and coordination for all current and future VPCC welding courses. This position supports course content reviews and revisions, helps ensure instructional consistency and quality across all courses and instructors, assists with inventory monitoring and the associated procurement process, contributes to recruiting and training both new students and new instructors, and engages with employer partners to better understand their needs and promote pathways to employment for welding course completers.
The Welding Program Lead Instructor will provide instruction and coordination for all current and future VPCC welding courses. This position supports course content reviews and revisions, helps ensure instructional consistency and quality across all courses and instructors, assists with inventory monitoring and the associated procurement process, contributes to recruiting and training both new students and new instructors, and engages with employer partners to better understand their needs and promote pathways to employment for welding course completers.
Required:
- High School graduate or equivalent.
- Considerable experience working as a Welder.
- Prior teaching or training experience in a workplace or community/technical college setting.
Specialized knowledge and experience in:
- Fillet welds in all positions using established welding processes.
- Groove welds with backing plate using established welding processes.
- Groove welds without backing plate using the established welding processes.
- Open-root pipe using SMAW and GTAW processes.
- Setup and operation of Oxyacetylene Welding and Cutting and Plasma Cutting equipment.
- Weld joint geometry and welding terminology.
- Basic welding drawings and Welding Symbols.
- Safe work practices in the welding field.
Skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated teaching and educational facilitation skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills, flexibility, and customer service orientation.
- Good computer skills.
Ability to:
- Apply welding theories to practical applications.
- Assess learner performance and progress and to provide appropriate feedback.
- Measure, assess and align learner outcomes within courses.
- Serve the needs of traditional and non-traditional students.
- Plan and organize instruction in ways that maximize documented student learning.
- Manage a class which includes live work, lectures and labs on site and off site.
- Promote higher-order thinking and problem solving among educational participants.
- Adhere to established standards for educational quality.
- Maintain complete, accurate educational records.
- Adapt to state requirements, local needs, and national trends.
- Use Email (Outlook), Microsoft Word, and Excel.
- Experience with American Welding Society (AWS) certification process and AWS accredited test facility operations.
- AWS Certified Welding Educator
- Associate degree in the Career and Technical Education field.
- American Welding Society credentials (e.g., CWI and CWE).
- Classroom Welding instruction experience
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