Title: Machining Adjunct Instructor
Agency: Rappahannock Community College
Location: Lancaster - 103
FLSA: Exempt
Hiring Range: Salary is $30.00/hr.
Full Time or Part Time: Part Time
Additional Detail
Job Description:
Rappahannock Community College (RCC), founded in 1970, provides high-quality educational and training opportunities throughout a 12-county service region an hour east of Richmond on the beautiful western shore of the Chesapeake Bay with access to fresh local seafood and water activities. RCC delivers accessible and affordable educational opportunities, including for-credit transfer and career technical programs, robust distance education coursework, quality dual enrollment courses, and award-winning workforce training and credentialing programs. RCC’s annualized enrollment of 3,700 credit students in 2024-2025 and almost 800 workforce and community development students are supported by almost 140 full-time employees and over 200 part-time/adjunct employees across two main campuses and four satellite sites.
RCC seeks applicants for the Part-Time Machinist Instructor to teach Introduction to Machining: Measurement, Materials, and Safety and CNC Level 1 Milling at our Kilmarnock site.
The College desires candidates with a commitment to the community college mission. The successful candidate will be committed to academic excellence, continuous improvement through professional development, and creating a collegial environment of civility, collaboration and open communication. The College strives for staff with expertise in best practices and innovative strategies that support teaching and learning and who are well connected to the communities we serve.
The successful candidate will teach students the fundamental knowledge of standard steel classifications and numbering systems. In addition, students will learn how to read precision measuring devices, shop and safety, and inspection techniques. Students will be prepared to take the classic credential: Measurement, Materials, and Safety exam.
The instructor will introduce to students the basic machine shop practices, and instruct them on the set-up and operations of the computer numerical controlled (CNC) mill, covering tool set-up and adjustments of work and tool sets. Fundamental principles and applications of setup and operations to a CNC Mill will be taught. Students will be able to perform common inspection processes and generate a production run of parts to the given print tolerance. Students will be prepared to take the Level 1 CNC Mill Programming Setup & Operations exam.
Teaching assignments and schedules may include evening on-campus assignments and daytime weekend classes.
Minimum Qualifications:
Extensive experience in the application of machinist processes in an industrial workplace setting. Considerable knowledge and demonstrated skills in machinist principles, processes, applications, software, and machines. Considerable knowledge of Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) guidelines. Candidates should possess excellent written and oral skills and a commitment to community college philosophy and student success. Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite Applications. Candidates must be available to teach in-person classes in Montross.Additional Considerations:
Teaching experience in the discipline. Prior or current experience with curriculum development. NIMS Credential in Measurement, Materials & Safety. NIMS credential in CNC Mill Programming, Setup & Operations.
Each agency within the Commonwealth of Virginia is dedicated to recruiting, supporting, and maintaining a competent and diverse work force. Equal Opportunity Employer

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