Tenure Track Faculty: Welding

Full Time Tenure Welding Faculty

Salary: $81,176 - $112,865

Department/Division: Manufacturing & Trades

Supervisor: Dean of M&T

Olympic College is recruiting a full-time, tenure track welding faculty for the Bremerton welding program. The college offers Associate in Technical Arts Degree in Welding Technology and short term certificates at both the Bremerton campus and in Shelton.

Olympic College's main campus is located in Bremerton, Washington, on the beautiful Kitsap Peninsula. A ferry ride from downtown Seattle, the area is surrounded by 236 miles of salt water shoreline, located between the Olympic and Cascade Mountain ranges, in the Puget Sound Region. This position will work primarily at the Bremerton campus in Bremerton, Washington.

A public comprehensive community college, Olympic College educates more than 13,000 students a year. Founded in 1946, the college has campuses in Bremerton, Poulsbo and Shelton- it serves a population of 280,000 residents living in Kitsap and Mason Counties.

Essential Functions

Examples of Responsibilities

• Prepare and teach welding courses in shop-based, lecture and online delivery formats, creating engaging teaching and learning environments that facilitate student success
• Provide student education and career advising, mentoring and support
• Actively contribute to the welding faculty team meetings and activities to collaboratively complete a variety of discipline work
• Participate in continually updating existing curriculum and creating new programs and courses to meet changing workforce demands
• Plan, develop and set up classrooms, instructional shops and online teaching environments
• Identify individual learning needs of students and make appropriate adjustments in learning environments and activities
• Utilize a variety of assessment activities to evaluate student learning and achievement
• Stay current in the welding field through a variety of professional development activities
• Develop and nurture connections with local employers
• Maintain regular office hours for students and colleagues
• Serve on appropriate college and community committees, including working with the welding program advisory committee
• Oversee Bremerton shop equipment maintenance and supply purchases
• Work with the Dean to schedule and oversee adjunct faculty teaching in the Welding Technology Program
• Perform other related duties as assigned and/or required