Instructor - Electrical Technology

Title: Instructor - Electrical Technology

Salary Range: 52,000

Contract Term Length: 10 Months - August 2025 start

Standard Hours: 37.5

Work Location: On-Site

FLSA Status: Exempt

College: Gateway Community & Technical College

Campus Location: Gateway Boone

Department: Manufacturing & Engineering

Total Rewards

Gateway Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity including:

• Exceptional health care, vision, dental coverage for you and your family
• Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you, your spouse, and dependents
• 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
• Vacation/Sick Time
• Work-Life Balance
• 9.5 Paid Holidays
• 2 Weeks Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
• Employee Assistance Program

Job Summary

10 – month Electrical Technology Instructor. The role involves teaching 15 credit hours per semester, planning instructional activities, maintaining training equipment, and advising students. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in electrical technology, industry experience, and a commitment to professional development and community service. Assignments may include evening, weekend, and off-campus courses.

Job Duties:

• Teach the equivalent of 15 credit hours per semester.
  
• Plan and carry out instructional activities.
  
• Perform maintenance and minor repairs of training equipment.
  
• Maintain records and report on student progress.
  
• Provide academic advising and assist with student recruitment, retention, and student outcome assessment.
  
• Keep abreast of technical changes in the field and update the program accordingly.
  
• Participate in professional development activities, professional growth, and institutional service.
  
• Engage in various departmental activities, including course development and evaluation, mentoring adjunct faculty, and participation in continuing education/community service.
  
• Ability to read and interpret information found on industrial electrical drawings.
  
• Ability to apply a basic understanding of industrial equipment use.
  
• Ability to apply a basic understanding of direct circuits, alternating circuits, power supplies, transistors, amplifiers, oscillators, digital circuits and digital/microprocessor systems.
• Ability to analyze and perform tool and safety procedures such as, selecting proper tools, safe use of hand tools, electrical hazards, environmental hazards and electrical safety testing equipment.
  
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associates degree in related field or industry certifications in related areas
  
• 2 years of related work experience
  
• Commitment to continuous professional development and staying current with industry trends.
  
• Strong commitment to teaching, working with a diverse population, and Gateway’s mission.
• Ability to read and interpret information found on industrial electrical drawings.
  
• Ability to apply a basic understanding of industrial equipment use.
  
• Ability to apply a basic understanding of direct circuits, alternating circuits, power supplies, transistors, amplifiers, oscillators, digital circuits and digital/microprocessor systems.
• Ability to analyze and perform tool and safety procedures such as, selecting proper tools, safe use of hand tools, electrical hazards, environmental hazards and electrical safety testing equipment.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  
• High attention to detail, independent, self-motivated, adaptable to fast-paced environments.
  
• Professional and courteous communication at all levels, both internally and externally.
  
• Clear verbal and written skills.
  
• Efficiently prioritize and meet deadlines.
  
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Forms, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Word).
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in related field.
  
• 5 years of industry experience
  
• Experience with PLC’s and robotics.
  
• Previous teaching experience
  
• Experience in and understanding of working with students from diverse populations.
  
• Experience working at the community college level.
  

Additional Skills Requested:

• Experience in motor controls, programmable logic controllers, rotating machinery and transformers.
  
• The basic competencies to properly install diagnose, troubleshoot and conduct measurements on the different types of industrial electrical components and equipment.
  
  **Applicants selected for an interview will be required to give a short (approximately 15 minutes) teaching demonstration on the topic to be determined prior to the interview.
  

Employee Rights - Employee Polygraph Protection Act

Equal Opportunity Employer - The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is an equal educational and employment opportunity institution.