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

Overview

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

Posting Details and Special Instructions:
This is a full-time, tenure-track position. The District may fill more than one position from this pool. For more details, please see Special Instructions for more details.

Posting Number AA

Campus

Location:

Fresno City College

Start Date:

08/05/2026

At Fresno City College we value serving students from diverse cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities, and orientations. We seek an equity-minded leader committed to student success through collaboration with faculty, classified staff, administration, students, and community partners, 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 elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility;
• Encourages positive race-consciousness and embraces human difference;
• Supports institutional practices that develop and sustain culturally responsive teaching and learning environments;
• Strategically builds support for and participation in equity-related initiatives across internal and external communities.

Fresno City College seeks leaders who value placing the student at the center of everything we do, mentorship, and collaboration. Leaders should be open to culturally relevant professional development to prepare for the student population served.

The ideal candidate will share FCC’s commitment to educating a racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. For the  academic year, enrollment and demographic data are noted in the original posting. FCC is a Hispanic-Serving Institution and committed to equitable outcomes and successful pathways for all students. The successful candidate will join a department dedicated to curriculum responsive to the students it serves.

Provide instruction in Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning Refrigeration (HVAC/R) and Environmental Controls on campus and/or off-site locations. The instructor will be responsible for:

• Teach a full schedule of developmental and transfer-level HVAC courses as assigned;
• Instruction on safety, hand tools, 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 psychrometrics 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 HVAC/R 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 HVAC program budget, facilities, and program; attend departmental, division, and faculty meetings including workshops; assist in recruiting and advising students; work with local HVAC companies for internships; participate in departmental co-curricular activities; organize and maintain an active advisory committee; develop reports with FCC Institutional Research; maintain data on enrollments, course completion, and outcomes; perform duties related to grant and dual enrollment objectives;

attend regional and state professional conferences on dual enrollment; serve on and attend department, college, and district committees; participate in program review, student learning outcome development, and assessment to improve student learning; teach in various instructional settings and times (evening/weekends, online or off-campus, large group); may include off-campus instruction at local high schools for dual enrollment; otherwise fulfill all duties of instructors as required by Administrative Regulation 7122;

and other duties…