Advanced Manufacturing Instructor, Tenure-Track

Thank you for your interest in Truckee Meadows Community College. If you need assistance or have questions regarding the application process, please contact Human Resources at (775) 673-7168 or humanresources@tmcc.edu.

About Us

Truckee Meadows Community College is the “jobs college” for Northern Nevada currently serving over 11,000 students. The college is a Hispanic Serving Institution with 35% of students identifying as Hispanic. Many students are first in their families to go to college and are receiving financial aid. The college prides itself on providing numerous scholarship opportunities to remove barriers to access for the diverse community we serve. The college has five academic divisions, including the Division of Technical Sciences, in which the advanced manufacturing department and this position are housed.

The department provides workforce training through short term skills certificates, two 30-credit certificates of achievement, an Associates of Applied Sciences in Automation and Robotics and apprenticeships. Our programs are aligned with industry needs and certifications including National Coalition of Certification Centers (NC3) and the Smart Automation
Certification Alliance (SACA).

The Opportunity

Looking for an opportunity to play a key role in workforce development for the clean energy economy? Would you like to work with a supportive and dynamic team who thinks outside the box to meet the workforce training demands of the manufacturing industry? Want to work with local companies, large and small, to train their new and incumbent workers? Then this tenure-track position at Truckee Meadows Community College is for you! We are seeking a student-centered, enthusiastic, creative, diligent, team player to teach college courses in mechanical, electrical, pneumatics, programming, automation and robotics. The majority of courses are taught in the lab at our William N. Pennington Center of Applied Technology at 475 Edison Way, with additional courses taught at the new PENA Advanced Manufacturing Training Center at 645 Plumb Lane.  We also offer online courses. We are seeking applicants from all backgrounds and life experiences and looking for transferable skills sets that are applicable to this role. To learn more about the tenure-track process, see the Nevada Faculty Association Contract. Be part of the academy at TMCC!

Minimum Qualifications

1. Associates Degree in Advanced Manufacturing, Industrial Technology or closely related field from an accredited institution. *

2. Six months working in an advanced manufacturing training or industrial environment.

3. Experience with Programmable Logic Controllers

4. Familiarity with industrial robots

*Degree may be substituted with equivalent academic preparation/certification and an additional two years of professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree or higher from a regionally accredited institution in Industrial Systems, Advanced Manufacturing, Robotics or closely related technical field from an accredited institution.

2. Two (2) years of teaching experience in industrial technologies, or closely related fields at the secondary or post-secondary level or training experience in a related environment.

3. Professional experience in manufacturing, or