What are the responsibilities and job description for the Instructor, Industrial Maintenance Training position at Vincennes University?
Description
Vincennes University is seeking applicants for Instructor, Industrial Maintenance Training position. This is a full-time professional staff position located at the VU Main campus site in Vincennes, IN.
The primary function is to teach Industrial Maintenance classes (lecture/lab) and help maintain classroom/lab equipment. Track each student’s progress and report daily. Industrial Maintenance classes for our business customers currently consist of Basic AC/DC, Electric Motor Control, Mechanical Drives (belts, chains, gears), Pneumatics, PLC’s and HMI’s.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Plans, develops, and uses effective teaching methods and materials that assist students in meeting course objectives, are appropriate for students with diverse educational and experiential backgrounds and learning styles, and engage the students in learning.
- Coordinate with our customers to identify student learning outcomes: develop assessment processes and tools; incorporate results to modify instruction and materials in coordination with colleagues.
- Reviews, evaluates, reflects, and revises program curricula and teaching methods through a self-evaluation process of self-reflection.
- Evaluate and report student attendance, attitude, attentiveness, ability to work in a team, attention to detail, and ability to learn new and complex concepts.
- Our customer requires student status reports on a daily and weekly basis.
- Meets or exceeds professional standards, state-mandated guidelines, Dept. of Labor guidelines, requirements of Business & Industry, apprenticeship agreements, and higher education, as appropriate to the discipline(s).
Required and Preferred Qualifications
- Excellent planning/organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Must work well in teams of 3-6 instructors with a “whatever it takes” attitude
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Associates degree in a technical field is required, Bachelor’s degree or higher is preferred.
- Industry-recognized certifications are a plus.
- A minimum of five years of full-time experience as a manufacturing engineer, controls engineer, or similar, or experience in an industrial maintenance field is required.
- Two years’ experience in an academic teaching environment is preferred, but not required.
- Experience in most areas is required: electricity, electric motor circuits, control circuits, PLCs, pneumatics, mechanical drive systems, safety, and print reading.
Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Interested applicants should submit a Vincennes University application, resume/cv, and full contact information for three professional references.
