Welding Instructor Tenure-Track Fresno City College

Welding Instructor (Full-Time, Tenure-Track) Fresno City College Please see Special Instructions for more details.

This is a full-time, tenure-track position. The District may fill more than one position from this pool.

Posting Number: AA

Title:

Welding Instructor (Full-Time, Tenure-Track) 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.

• 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; and
• Strategically builds support for and participation in equity-related initiatives across both our internal and external communities.

Fresno City College seeks leaders who value placing the student at the center of everything we do, mentorship, and working in a collegial, collaborative environment. Leaders should be open and willing to participate in culturally relevant professional development that will help them prepare for the population of students who attend Fresno City College.

The ideal candidate will share Fresno City College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. For the  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.

• Developing curriculum, assisting in the coordination of the program for metals fabrication/welding technology and instructing the following courses: oxygen-acetylene and plasma cutting, Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW), Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW), Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), Flux Core Arc Welding (FCAW), manual and semi- and automatic equipment in the flat, horizontal, vertical, and overhead positions with mild steel, aluminum, and stainless steel;
• Attending and passing the NC3 training and utilizing the program in welding courses so students have the opportunity to attain NC3 certifications;
• Sharing in the responsibility of proper maintenance and upkeep of the equipment and supplies used in the welding program;
• Assisting with developing and teaching short term courses, such as summer workshops for students and high school instructors;
• Participating in recruiting activities;
• Participating in appropriate professional meetings and workshops;
• Serving on and attending department, college, and district committees as needed;
• Participating in program review, student learning outcome development and assessment to improve student learning;
• Teaching assignments in a variety of instructional settings and times, including evening and/or weekends, on-line or off-campus and large group instruction classes as needed;
• Otherwise fulfilling all of the duties and responsibilities of instructors as required by Administrative Regulation 7122; and
• Other duties as assigned.

All candidates must have evidence of responsiveness to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, as these factors relate to the need for equity-minded practice within the classroom; and

• Bachelor’s degree and two (2) years of full-time equivalent professional experience; or
• Associate degree and six (6) years of full-time equivalent professional experience; or
• A valid California Community College Credential; or
• The equivalent education and/or experience (requires an equivalency).

Note: If the degrees posted on your transcript(s) do not match exactly as stated above, you must petition for equivalency.

• Experience and skill incorporating elements of diversity, equity, and inclusion into all areas of responsibility;
• Recent experience working with African…