9-Month Faculty - Machine Technology Program

Title: 9-Month Faculty - Machine Technology Program

Agency: Mountain Empire Community Coll

Location: Wise - 195

FLSA: Exempt

Hiring Range: For Instructional Faculty, the starting point is the minimum of the faculty member’s academic rank range. The academic rank is determined in accordance with policy 3.2.0. The College will establish a starting salary that is within the minimum to mid-poi

Full Time or Part Time: Full Time

Additional Detail

Job Description:

Mountain Empire Community College, one of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s 23 comprehensive community colleges, serves the counties of Dickenson, Lee, Scott, Wise, and the City of Norton. It is located approximately 40 miles from Kingsport, TN, and enrolls over 4,300 students in credit courses (approximately 1,900 full-time equivalent) and over 2,300 students in non-credit courses.

Mountain Empire Community College invites applications for a full-time, 9-month faculty position in Machine Technology available August 1, 2025. Rank and salary are dependent upon qualifications and experience.

Summary of duties and responsibilities:

• Teach assigned Machine Technology courses in all formats (face to face, hybrid, and online) during the day, evening, and/or weekends.
• Advise students on curriculum, career goals, and complete other advising responsibilities.
• Serve on college/program committees.
• Develop new courses as required.
• Maintain ten office hours per week.
• Establish and assess student learning outcomes and participate in institutional effectiveness initiatives to include assessment and program reviews.
• Participate in college, community, and professional activities.
• Pursue professional growth and development activities in the discipline.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with students, faculty, staff, and other stakeholders important to the college.
• Coordinate and maintain labs, laboratory equipment, and supplies.
• Assist and mentor adjunct faculty.
• Perform other such duties as may be deemed appropriate.

• A thorough understanding of diversity in student populations and the ability to connect with, include, and consider all student populations in curriculum development and teaching.
• Ability to:
  • Calculate dimensions or tolerances, using instruments, such as micrometers or vernier calipers.
  • Machine parts to specifications, using machine tools, such as lathes, milling machines, shapers, or grinders.
  • Measure, examine, or test completed units to check for defects and ensure conformance to specifications, using precision instruments, such as micrometers.
  • Set up, adjust, or operate basic or specialized machine tools used to perform precision machining operations.
  • Program computers or electronic instruments, such as numerically controlled machine tools.
• Able to instruct students in lab activities such as:
  • Measuring dimensions of completed products or work pieces to verify conformance to specifications.
  • Calculate dimensions of work pieces, products, or equipment.
  • Operate cutting equipment.
  • Operate grinding equipment.
  • Operate metal or plastic forming equipment.

• Understanding and belief in the comprehensive mission of community colleges.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with students, faculty, staff, and other stakeholders important to the college.
• Proficient in oral and written communication.
• Knowledge and ability to integrate technology in the classroom and via distance delivery modes.
• Proficiency in using electronic systems for communication, records management, college learning management system, and general organizational functions.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Five years of current occupational experience in the field.

• NIMS machining certification
• Associate's degree or equivalent in the teaching field.
• Previous teaching experience.
• Previous community college teaching experience.