"Welding Instructor (Riverside City College)"

Welding Instructor (Riverside City College)

Riverside Community College District

Application Deadline: Interested candidates must apply by 2/11/2026 by 8:00 p.m., Pacific Standard Time.

Position Title: Welding Instructor (Riverside City College)

Department: Applied Technology (R)

Position Type: Full-Time Faculty/Counselor/Librarian

College/Campus: Riverside City College

Employment Type: Full-Time Tenure Track (Faculty)

Position Length: 10-month

Salary Range: Column C, Step 1 to Column H, Step 6 ($88,002 to $135,587 Annual)

Job Description

Basic Function:
The successful candidate will be responsible for lecture and/or laboratory instruction in all phases of welding. The assignment may also include other courses in the discipline.

The ideal candidate will share RCC's and the department of Applied Technology commitment to educating its racially/ethnically and socioeconomically diverse student population...

Education:
Bachelor's degree and two years of full-time, or the equivalent part-time experience as a welder OR any associate degree and six years of full-time, or the equivalent part-time experience as a welder OR The Equivalent. (All degrees and units used to satisfy minimum qualifications shall be from accredited institutions).

Experience:
Two years of teaching experience is required. Community college or baccalaureate level teaching experience is desired.
Preferred: American Petroleum Institute (API), American Society Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Pipe certification current or previous, journeyman pipefitter experience, Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) or Quality Control in welding environment.

Licenses/Certifications: LA City Structural welding license in BOTH the manual and semiautomatic processes and/or current API/ASME pipe welding certifications is required within the first year of employment.

Other: Evidence of a sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students (E.C. 87360a).

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Fulfill the duties of a full-time instructor, including, but not limited to, holding weekly office hours and completing 24 hours of 'flex credit' through various available activities and seminars.
2. The instructional assignment will include lecture and/or laboratory classes in the discipline.
3. Faculty will participate in outcomes assessment work.
4. Faculty assignments are based upon the assumption of workload of forty hours weekly...
5. Institutional service activities are expected of all faculty members.
6. Participation in discipline/department decision making processes...
7. Responsibilities also include maintaining standards of professional conduct and ethics appropriate to the professional position.
8. Teaching assignment may include early morning (e.g., 7:00am) day, evening, online, hybrid, weekend, and/or off campus classes.

Maintenance and repair of welding laboratory equipment. Material handling of supplies including unloading deliveries of steel, consumables, and bottles, making sure items are stored properly.

Conditions of Employment:
1. Ten-month, tenure-track position.
2. Salary is commensurate with academic preparation...
Etc.

Required Applicant Documents: Resume or Curriculum Vitae, Cover Letter, Associate or Equivalent Transcript, Other Document (Copies of license, credential, certificate, etc.)

Effective Employment Date: Fall 2026