Assistant Professor, Fire Technology

Full‑time tenure‑track Assistant Professor in Fire Technology (Eureka campus). Responsibilities include teaching courses across face‑to‑face, correspondence, online, and other distance modalities, often with night and weekend assignments on Tompkins Hill campus and other sites. Additional duties support the fire technology program and community needs.

• Participate in community advisory committee meetings: call meetings, prepare agendas, and ensure minutes are taken.
• Nominate potential advisory committee members in consultation with department faculty and division dean.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of the Fire Technology curriculum, including transfer/articulation agreements and development of credit and non‑credit courses for local departments and the community.
• Adhere to all safety standards and ensure safe practices on training grounds.
• Engage in institutional, program, degree, and course‑level assessment.
• Participate in the College's shared governance process.
• Participate in local outreach activities representing the Fire Technology Program.
• Attend local Fire Chiefs Association and Instructors Association meetings.
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with students, colleagues, industry stakeholders, government agencies, media, and the general public.
• Support State Fire Training accreditation processes.

• Bachelor's degree or higher AND two (2) years of professional experience directly related to the teaching assignment, OR Associate's degree AND six (6) years of professional experience directly related to the teaching assignment.
• Active registered instructor in good standing with State Fire Training.

• Previous teaching experience that enables the candidate to teach a broad range of fire technology courses.
• Mechanical knowledge to troubleshoot equipment to support the Fire/EMS Lab Technician as needed.
• Experience with multi‑agency training coordination.
• Experience in managing and overseeing assistant instructors, guest lecturers, and skills coaches during firefighter‑related lecture and lab instruction.
• Meets the current SFT qualifications for primary or lead instructor for the following FSTEP courses embedded in a Fire Fighter 1 and Fire Fighter 2 Academy:
  Fire Fighter Survival, Common Passenger Vehicle Rescue Technician, Confined Space Rescue Awareness.
• Meets the current SFT qualifications for lead evaluator to conduct the Certification Written and Skills Evaluations for Fire Fighter 1, Fire Fighter 2, Wildland Fire Fighter 1, and Hazardous Materials Awareness, Operations and Weapons of Mass Destruction.
• Possesses the technical expertise to properly and safely demonstrate the use and operation of all required equipment identified in the SFT Fire Fighter 1 and Fire Fighter 2 Course Plans.
• California State Fire Training CEET, RIO and Ethics Certification.
• Experience with SFT Course Request and Course Return Processing of embedded FSTEP courses.

Start date:

Spring 2027.