Instructor of Diesel Technology

Arkansas State University - Newport, AR

Full-time

Newport, AR

Educational Services

About the position

The Instructor of Diesel Technology at Arkansas State University-Newport is responsible for teaching Diesel Technology courses, which include both classroom and laboratory instruction. This role also involves serving as a maintenance technician for the Commercial Driver Training program, ensuring quality educational programs and supporting the college's mission. The position is a 12-month faculty role based on the Newport campus.

Responsibilities

• Promotes, develops, and assesses quality curriculum and coursework that align with the college's mission.
• Conducts effective instructional sessions to teach and demonstrate principles, techniques, procedures, or methods of designated subjects.
• Develops course curriculum, course handouts, lectures, labs, and presentations, including reviewing and participating in textbook selection process where appropriate.
• Schedules, supervises, debriefs, and evaluates students in observation and field experience, and similar settings as appropriate for the course or program.
• Supervises and monitors students' use of equipment.
• Supervises independent or group projects, field placements, laboratory work, or other training.
• Provides individualized instruction and tutorial or remedial instruction.
• Observes and evaluates students' work to determine progress, provide feedback, and make suggestions for improvement.
• Administers oral, written, or performance tests to measure progress and to evaluate training effectiveness.
• Participates in conferences, seminars, and training sessions to keep abreast of developments in the field of study and integrate relevant information into training programs.
• Maintains accessibility to students via email, phone, or personal conferences. Maintains course/student records such as student grades, attendance, and training activity details in accordance with FERPA regulations and submit records by established deadlines.
• Keeps a flexible weekly schedule that best facilitates student learning and access.
• Remains current in academic or program discipline, including maintaining licensure, certification, or continuing education requirements where appropriate.
• Supports the Dean for Applied Sciences in cultivating and maintaining strong industry partnerships to ensure local support and demand for graduates.
• Helps students identify and achieve their educational goals through participating in the college's advising process, as well as providing incidental academic advice to students in classes.
• Attends commencement or other ceremonies appropriate to the faculty member's discipline or program. Attends departmental, divisional, and college-wide meetings where appropriate or as required by supervisor.
• Posts and keeps office hours to facilitate interaction with students, the college community, and the public.
• Assists the Dean for Applied Sciences in the development of program/department budget requests as appropriate.
• Maintains training facilities and coordinates appropriate safety guidelines, training, and equipment use.
• Serves on college-wide committees, special project teams, state and local committees, and community service and civic committees as needed, and acts as a professional and positive representative of the College.
• Promotes and supports concurrent partnerships with area high schools (and career technical center).
• Constructs and updates checklists as appropriate (i.e., daily, weekly, monthly, etc.) as a maintenance technician.
• Inspects all Class A trucks to ensure CDT classes can flow without interruption.
• Schedules repairs around CDT, DT, HVLT and IGNITE classes.
• Orders parts for repairs.
• Turns in all receipts in a timely manner.
• Bids tires once a year.
• Maintains a PM program to limit breakdowns.
• Makes sure that all road trucks are DOT compliant.

Requirements

• Associate Degree or equivalent credentialing.
• Ability to use and understand related diagnostic equipment and diesel computer programs.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Three to five years of experience working on Class A trucks.
• Previous recruitment, administration, and college teaching experience.