Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning; HVAC Instructor Tenure-Track Fresno C

Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Instructor (Full-Time, Tenure-Track)

Campus:
Fresno City College

Start Date:

08/05/2026

At Fresno City College we value the ability to serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities, and orientations. We prioritize applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits a diverse student population brings to a community college. The successful candidate will be an equity‑minded leader committed to student success achieved through collaboration with faculty, classified staff, administration, students, and community partners who are also dedicated to closing equity gaps.

An equity‑minded individual is a person who:

• Understands the importance of holding ourselves accountable as educators for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices;
• Reframes inequities as a problem of practice and views the elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility;
• Encourages positive race‑consciousness and embraces human difference;
• Supports institutional practices that both develop and sustain culturally responsive teaching and learning environments;
• Strategically builds support for and participation in equity‑related initiatives across both our internal and external communities.

The ideal candidate will share Fresno City College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. For the 2024‑2025 academic year, we enrolled over 45,000 students in which 68% identify as Latinx, 11% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 4% as Black/African American, 14% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 2% as multiracial. Fresno City College is a Hispanic‑Serving Institution, reflecting the great responsibility that the College has to the educational attainment and economic well‑being of the surrounding community.

The successful candidate will join a department dedicated to the use of a curriculum responsive to the students it serves.

Providing instruction in Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning Refrigeration (HVAC/R) and Environmental Controls on the Fresno City College campus and/or at off‑site community campus locations, the instructor will be responsible for:

• Teach a full schedule of developmental and transfer level HVAC courses as assigned; see sub‑topics:
  • Safety, hand tools and use of instruments;
  • Basics of mechanical refrigeration, medium and low temp refrigeration, refrigerants, evacuation, charging, recovery;
  • Basic and advanced electricity, single and 3 phase power, motors, controls, control strategies;
  • Airflow measurement;
  • Use of psychometrics as a diagnostic tool;
  • Gas fired (natural and LP) heating systems;
  • Flame control technologies;
  • Heat pumps;
  • Resistance heat;
  • Uniform Mechanical/Plumbing Code and National Electrical Code as related to Air Conditioning, Refrigeration and Environmental Controls;
  • Basic sheet metal fabrication;
  • Residential duct system layout and design;
  • Air conditioning and refrigeration system installation;
  • Technician preparation for HVAC/R certification exams.
• Assist in the operation of the air conditioning program budget, facilities, and program;
• Attend departmental, division, and faculty meetings including workshops;
• Assist in recruiting and advising students;
• Work with local air conditioning companies in the development and placement of on‑the‑job student internships;
• Participate in departmental co‑curricular activities such as clubs and related events;
• Organize and maintain an active advisory committee;
• Develop reports and work with FCC Institutional Research to maintain data on enrollments, course completion, and outcome achievements;
• Perform duties related to grant and dual enrollment objectives;
• Attend regional and state level professional conferences and meetings regarding dual enrollment;
• Serve on and attend department, college, and district committees as needed;
• Participate in program review, student learning outcome development, and assessment to improve student learning;
• Teach assignments in a variety of instructional settings and times, including evening and/or weekends, online or off‑campus, and…