Consultant​/Trainer - Automation & Robotics Center

Do you enjoy sharing your knowledge and expertise in the areas of automation, robotics, and advanced manufacturing? Are you passionate about making a real-world impact and empowering others with life-changing career opportunities? If so, Hawkeye Community College has an incredible opportunity for you!

Our Business & Community Education (BCE) team is seeking a full-time Consultant/Trainer for our Automation & Robotics Center (ARC). In this role, you will be directly responsible for the instruction, development, and coordination of cutting‑edge training solutions designed to support the advanced manufacturing sector and strengthen our regional workforce.

The ARC is the first in the state to provide open lab, competency and project based training, and hands‑on skill assessment with industry recognized stackable credentials. The center is outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment and instructional programming from FANUC, and SACA. Aligning our programming with Smart Automation Certification Alliance (SACA) standards and center serving the region.

Hawkeye Community College is a comprehensive community college focused on meeting the needs of the community by providing quality, affordable learning experiences for a diverse student body through our Adult Learning Center, Business and Community Education Department as well as through more than 50 career and technical programs and liberal arts transfer programs. Hawkeye Community College’s mission is about empowering students, strengthening businesses and enriching communities with a vision to improve the quality of life in the communities we serve.

Important responsibilities and duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Acts as a primary contact for advancing and promoting the Automation and Robotics Center.
• Provides instruction, supervision, and advice to a wide array of learners/student population across various learning modalities and environments.
• Develops, implements, and coordinates workforce and training solutions for advanced manufacturing, Industry 4.0, 5.0, and smart automation.
• Provides continuous training improvement strategies to support programs, students and businesses through technical leadership and subject matter expertise.
• Teaches assigned courses and serves as a subject matter expert in at least one of the subject areas:
  Electrical, Electronics, Fluid Power, Machining, Mechanical, and/or Process Control.
• Implements instructional methods and materials that are appropriate for meeting stated objectives, assessing accomplishments of students on a regular basis, and providing progress reports as requested and required.
• Participates in program, curriculum, and student learning outcomes (SLO) development, revision, and assessment.
• Provides leadership, mentorship and supervision to technical staff, adjuncts, and students.
• Develops and maintains positive relationships with all college employees, students, community partners, clients, and affiliates.
• Collaborates with industry partners such as Smart Automation Certification Alliance (SACA), FANUC, etc. to strengthen and/or develop programs and to provide student with access to learning opportunities through apprenticeships, internships, externships, or other work‑based learning activities.
• Maintains an organized and clean instructional environment.
• Troubleshoots and addresses issues that arise in day‑to‑day operation of the Automation and Robotics Lab providing timely responses and solutions as required.
• Develops and revises appropriate program and course curriculum in response to discipline and workforce needs.
• Partners with internal and external stakeholders to manage Center projects.