Welding Instructor

Position Overview

The welding instructor prepares course syllabi and instructional materials, delivers instruction in both a classroom and laboratory setting, and evaluates student progress. This is a full‑time position that may include day and/or night classes. Travel may be required to instructional sites. The position will be based at both the Enterprise and Geneva campuses, depending on need.

• Prepares course syllabi and instructional materials, delivers instruction, and evaluates and records student progress.
• Conducts instruction in a wide variety of settings and time frames, including day and evening at any instructional site.
• Employs appropriate teaching strategies in classroom and laboratory settings.
• Organizes and maintains instructional equipment as required.
• Explains, demonstrates, and ensures the safe use of tools, materials, and equipment in classroom and laboratory settings.
• Evaluates and advises College administration regarding textbooks and other instructional materials relevant to the area of instruction.
• Orders required materials using established procedures.
• Advises students on class schedules and coursework for degree plan completion.
• Schedules and maintains office hours for student assistance.
• Promotes leadership and enrichment experiences through student organizations and/or other activities.
• Remains current on technological and employment trends pertinent to the area of instruction.
• Maintains current industry certifications as required.
• Interacts with representatives from the welding industry and agencies.
• Participates in College meetings, College committees, and professional development activities.
• Participates in curriculum development, evaluation, and revision.
• Recruits students for the program.
• Participates in the College’s planning process.
• Works with the Dean of Instruction and Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning to develop, collect, analyze, and evaluate Student Learning Outcome (SLO) data.
• May be assigned as program lead by the Dean of Instruction, coordinating across multiple instructional sites to ensure continuity and quality in instruction, standardizing content, and streamlining equipment purchasing.
• Supports the college mission.
• Complies with all policies of the Alabama Community College System and the College.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Regularly required to stand for long periods of time, walk, sit, smell, talk, and hear. Must use hands to finger, handle, or feel; crouch, stoop, kneel, and bend; and reach with hands and arms. Must have mobility to move on‑and off‑campus. Frequently lifts and/or moves up to 10 pounds and occasionally lifts and/or moves up to 50 pounds. Requires close, distance, color, peripheral, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus vision.

• A minimum of a high school diploma with six years of full‑time welding experience, OR an associate’s degree or equivalent and three years of full‑time welding experience.
• Ability to obtain relevant industry certifications in welding including NC3 Lincoln and AWS.

• Associate’s degree in Welding or related field.
• Secondary or post‑secondary teaching experience.
• Experience with online learning.
• Professional industry certifications.

Salary Schedule D1: $42,108 – $94,363 (9‑month salary) and $13,001 – $29,184 (3‑month summer salary) based on Alabama Community College System Salary Schedule and dependent upon education and experience. This is an institutionally funded position.

Enterprise State Community College will make reasonable accommodations for qualified disabled applicants or employees.

Enterprise State Community College is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Alabama Community College System policy states that no employee or applicant may be excluded from employment on any basis of race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, disability, sex, age, or other protected class. This policy applies to all postsecondary community and technical colleges under the Alabama Community College Board of Trustees.