Job Number: 493280
Job Title: Adjunct Instructor - Automotive Technology
Opening date: Aug 14, 2024 8:00am
Closing date: Aug 14, 2025 11:55pm
Summary: Lansing Community College's Technical Careers Division seeks an Adjunct Instructor for their Automotive Technology Program. The Automotive adjunct faculty member must be able to effectively communicate and demonstrate knowledge of specific technical skills in automotive technology in both a lab and classroom environment to a diverse student population. The successful candidate will be able to adjust instructional technique as required by student’s learning style while maintaining a positive learning environment.
Description:
Title: Adjunct Instructor - Automotive Technology
Posting Closes at 11:55 PM on: 8/14/2025
Hours Per Week: Up to 28 Hours
Compensation Type: PT Faculty-Pay Based on PT Salary Schedule
New Hire Starting Pay: Rate of pay is based on the required qualifications of this position.
Employee Classification: Adjunct Instructor
Level: Adjunct-HS
Division: Technical Careers Division - 406000
Department: Automotive Technologies - 406311
Campus Location: LCC West Campus
Position Type: Regular/Continuing
Bargaining Unit: MAHE
To view the applicable labor contract, visit the Labor Relations web site.
For information about the benefits offered, please visit the Benefits web site.
Adjunct Positions are filled by semester on an as needed basis. Applicants in this applicant pool are reviewed when the department has an immediate need to fill a vacancy. Review of applications will then stop for the semester once the vacancy has been filled.
Lansing Community College’s Technical Careers Division provides over 30 innovative program areas. Our collaborative and flexible team environment works with the local, regional, and national community for the success of every student. We believe in each other and find joy in our work, never stop learning or growing and we are guided by strong character, ethics, and integrity. We make a difference. Our dedication to diversity, inclusion, and universal access underscores our commitment to fostering an inclusive educational culture. If you seek an opportunity to work with a great team of faculty and staff committed to student success in a professionally driven environment, then consider the following opportunity.
The Automotive adjunct faculty member must be able to effectively communicate and demonstrate knowledge of specific technical skills in automotive technology in both a lab and classroom environment to a diverse student population. The successful candidate will be able to adjust instructional technique as required by student’s learning style while maintaining a positive learning environment. Must have the ability to collaborate with learners and peers in order to establish a positive and collaborative learning environment along with providing a safe, operational and positive learning environment for our students and fellow faculty members. Must be willing to teach day or evening classes in multiple LCC automotive locations. Must demonstrate a commitment to the diversity of a multi-cultural population, as well as work effectively in a team-based environment, seeking continuous improvement and adherence to the community college philosophy.
Portions of some courses may be online/virtual. Labs will be face to face.
Part-time Teaching Faculty Assignments/Workload
Teaching Load Limits. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, each part-time Teaching Faculty member shall be accountable for teaching workload subject to the following limits:
a. Adjunct Instructors shall not exceed twelve (12) workload hours of teaching during Fall Semester and twelve (12) workload hours of teaching during Spring Semester, together with all associated preparation (including customary updates/maintenance of assigned courses), assessment and evaluation, and student consultation/office hours; and
b. Adjunct Instructors shall not exceed ten (10) workload hours of teaching during Summer Semester, together with all associated preparation (including customary updates/maintenance of assigned courses), assessment and evaluation, and student consultation/office hours.
c. Increases in workload will not change the part-time status of bargaining unit members.
Professional Activities and Duties
In addition to or in lieu of teaching assignments, part-time Teaching Faculty may be given non-teaching assignments such as course development or revision, curriculum development, student advising, leadership assignments, etc., provided their workload does not regularly exceed the nominal equivalent of twenty-eight (28) clock hours per week or 1456 clock hours in an academic year.
Nothing contained in this section is intended to modify the minimum workload opportunities or obligations of part-time Teaching Faculty as set forth in Article XIII. Employment Practices.
General Adjunct Instructor Requirements:
Primary duty and responsibility of teaching students in instructional settings;
Functioning as the principal source of instruction and the faculty of record in the instructional setting for a course, class, workshop, etc., offered for academic credit (i.e., designated by the College as responsible for the course, class, workshop, etc., including assigning the grade); and
Being responsible for curriculum planning and development; preparation and delivery of course content in accordance with student needs; comprehensive assessment and grading in the assigned course, class, workshop, etc., offered for academic credit.
Regular on campus presence is expected for all LCC employment. Any flexible work schedules and/or hybrid work schedules approved by the College are subject to change based on the needs of the LCC community.
