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Adjunct Instructor - Manufacturing Engineering Technologies: Machining

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Work status: Regular/Continuing
Location: LCC West
Categories: Adjunct Faculty
Work type: Part Time
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Title: Adjunct Instructor - Manufacturing Engineering Technologies: Machining

This Posting is Open Until Filled

The date after which applications are not guaranteed review is: 1/29/2026

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-BD

Division: Technical Careers Division - 406000

Department: Advanced Manufacturing Program - 406200

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.

Job Summary:

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.

This faculty member will teach courses in Manufacturing Engineering Technologies consistent with the evolving state of the discipline and accepted trends in teaching methods. This position requires a specific Quality and Metrology background in the manufacturing field. Additional skillsets in geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), and metallurgy and heat treatment are also desired. Ideal candidates would have a strong knowledge base in quality control and metrology as well as proficient operation of coordinate measuring machines and other metrological equipment. This part-time teaching position could include any of these subjects:
• Metrology and Advanced Inspection
• Metallurgy and Heat Treatment
• Manual Machining
• Precision Machining –CNC Multi Axis
• CAD/CAM
• CAM programming Fusion/Mastercam
• Eaton RESA Tech Careers High School Programs (Mechatronics, Machining, etc.)
Teaching assignments may include daytime and/or evening hours.

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 thirty (30) 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.

Final candidates will be subject to a criminal background check as part of the employment process.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Manufacturing Technologies/related field and two (2) years recent, relevant experience; OR Associate's Degree in Manufacturing Technologies/related field and four (4) years recent, relevant experience; OR Journey status in a manufacturing trade and four (4) years recent, relevant work; OR High School Diploma/GED and eight (8) years recent, relevant work experience.

IMPORTANT: If an educational degree is required for this position, unofficial copies of transcripts from each institution of higher learning where either a degree has been conferred or coursework completed are required documents that must be submitted as part of the online application process.

Applicants with foreign education credentials (i.e. earned degree and related to this position) must contact a member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) credential evaluation services (www.naces.org) and request an academic transcript evaluation. Three of NACES member credential evaluation services are: Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc. (https://www.ece.org/) ; World Education Services, Inc.(https://www.wes.org/) ; International Education Research Foundation, Inc. (https://ierf.org/). The credential evaluation must be submitted with the application materials.

REMEMBER: If an educational degree is required for this position, applications lacking these required documents will not be considered.

Preferred Qualifications:

Instructional teaching experience in secondary and/or post/secondary education.

Bachelor's Degree in Manufacturing Engineering, metallurgy, chemistry, metrology, or related field.

Experience in a metallurgy/heat treatment lab environment.

Experience in 5 axis, contoured surface, and high speed machining.

Experience in metrology: stationary/portable CCM, SPC, Quality.

Software experience with Mastercam, Solid Edge, NX, Unigraphics.

Lansing Community College prohibits sex discrimination in any educational program or activity that it operates. Individuals may report concerns or questions to the Title IX Coordinator. The notice of nondiscrimination is located at lcc.edu/consumer-information/equal.html.

 

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