Engineering Adjunct

Position Information

Title: Engineering Adjunct

Agency: Brightpoint Community College

Location: Chesterfield - 041

FLSA: Exempt

Hiring Range: $793-$1,693 per credit hour.

Full Time or Part Time: Part Time

Brightpoint Community College is a two‑year public institution of higher education and one of the largest of Virginia’s community colleges. Located within the Greater Richmond metropolitan area, it serves students and the community at its two campuses, Chester and Midlothian, as well as online and in off‑campus classrooms throughout the service area. The college’s mission is to provide quality educational opportunities that inspire student success and community vitality.

The Division of Business, Engineering, and Technology augments full‑time teaching faculty with qualified part‑time instructors. Adjunct faculty teaching is limited to a maximum of 8 credit hours in the summer semester, 12 credit hours in the fall semester, and 12 credit hours in the spring semester.

Provide on‑campus instruction at the Midlothian campus and, in limited cases, synchronous online instruction. Courses include:

• Computer Programming for Engineers (C++)
• Foundations of Engineering
• Engineering Design with lab
• Statics
• Mechanics
• Dynamics
• Thermodynamics
• Circuits I with lab
• Circuits II with lab
• Fundamentals of Computer Engineering with lab

Successful completion and passing of a criminal background check is required.

For Fall 2026, the college seeks faculty to staff Computer Programming for Engineers in C++, taught on campus or by Zoom.

• Minimum of a master’s degree with 18 graduate semester hours of coursework in the specific discipline.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Successful completion and passing of a criminal background check.

• Experience developing online courses in a college.
• Two years of related occupational experience and two years of teaching experience.