Instructor – Automotive Technology (MCAP/IMPORT/Subaru) (Part-Time)

Mt. Hood Community College; Gresham (OR); On-site; USD 52,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Mt. Hood Community College seeks an automotive instructor to teach courses covering engines, transmissions, brakes, electrical/electronic systems, HVAC, and emerging vehicle technologies.

You will guide students through theory, diagnostics, repair, and safety in a shop setting, aiming to develop technicians and leaders who meet ASE/NATEF standards. The role requires delivering lectures and hands-on demonstrations, maintaining course materials, and ensuring timely grading and record-keeping.

Qualifications

• Associate degree in automotive technology or related field.
• Three years of experience as a technician in a dealership and/or independent repair shop.
• Knowledge of current automotive technology, including fuel injection, modern transmissions, emission controls, multiplexing communications, and hybrid/EV technology.

Responsibilities

• Instructs students in classroom and shop using lectures, demonstrations, and guided practice with industry-standard tools.
• Provides student contact before or after class, during office hours, email, or other communications methods.
• Prepares and shares course materials including syllabi, demonstrations, videos, and handouts, with multiple learning paths.
• Structures classes and curriculum to align with program objectives and maintain currency.
• Maintains classroom, laboratory, and departmental equipment and ensures security of facilities and materials.
• Convenes classes on time and as scheduled.
• Implements grading practices that emphasize learning and growth and allow recovery opportunities.
• Maintains evaluation and grading records and submits grades per College timelines.
• Implements, models, and teaches safe shop operations with clear safety protocols aligning to OSHA and industry standards.

Skills

Automotive knowledge

Education

Associate degree in automotive technology

Job description

Job Summary And Responsibilities/Duties

Teaches courses in automotive systems such as engines, transmissions, brakes, electrical/electronic systems, HVAC, and emerging/advanced vehicle technologies (hybrid/EV, diagnostics). Guides students through theory, diagnostic procedures, repair practices, safety standards, and use of modern shop equipment, ensuring they can perform to ASE/NATEF standards. Grows students as technicians, professionals, and leaders through respect, mentorship and methods adapted to student experiences and needs.

• Instructs students in classroom and shop settings, using lectures, demonstrations, and guided practice with industry-standard tools. Encourages collaboration and mutual respect all settings, ensuring that all students can succeed in automotive careers.
• Provides student contact before or after class, during office hours, email, or other communications methods.
• Prepares and shares course materials including syllabi, demonstrations, videos, and handouts, in ways that give students more than one path to learn the content. Uses different approaches to adapt to student learning styles such as visual, auditory, and hands on methods.
• Structures classes and curriculum to correspond with the overall program objectives; prepares clear objectives for students each course. Maintains and revises curriculum to maintain currency.
• Maintains classroom, laboratory, and departmental equipment and provides for the security of facilities and instructional materials as appropriate.
• Convenes classes on time and as scheduled.
• Implements grading practices that emphasizes learning and growth, minimizes anxiety, rewards success, and provides students multiple opportunities to fall, recover, and advance.
• Maintains accurate evaluation and grading records and submits grades and documentation in accordance with College timelines.
• Implements, models, and teaches systems for safe shop operations and practices. Establishes clear safety protocols, maintains compliance with OSHA and industry standards, and integrates safety as a core part of every instructional activity. Leads students in developing habits of situational awareness, accountability, and responsibility for one another’s safety, preparing them to contribute to a professional, safety-first workplace.

Essential Duties

• Instructs students in classroom and shop settings, using lectures, demonstrations, and guided practice with industry-standard tools. Encourages collaboration and mutual respect all settings, ensuring that all students can succeed in automotive careers.
• Provides student contact before or after class, during office hours, email, or other communications methods.
• Prepares and shares course materials including syllabi, demonstrations, videos, and handouts, in ways that give students more than one path to learn the content. Uses different approaches to adapt to student learning styles such as visual, auditory, and hands on methods.
• Structures classes and curriculum to correspond with the overall program objectives; prepares clear objectives for students each course. Maintains and revises curriculum to maintain currency.
• Maintains classroom, laboratory, and departmental equipment and provides for the security of facilities and instructional materials as appropriate.
• Convenes classes on time and as scheduled.
• Implements grading practices that emphasizes learning and growth, minimizes anxiety, rewards success, and provides students multiple opportunities to fall, recover, and advance.
• Maintains accurate evaluation and grading records and submits grades and documentation in accordance with College timelines.
• Implements, models, and teaches systems for safe shop operations and practices. Establishes clear safety protocols, maintains compliance with OSHA and industry standards, and integrates safety as a core part of every instructional activity. Leads students in developing habits of situational awareness, accountability, and responsibility for one another’s safety, preparing them to contribute to a professional, safety-first workplace.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum and Desired Qualifications

• Associate degree in automotive technology or related field.
• Three (3) years of experience as a technician in a dealership and/or independent repair shop
• Knowledge of general and/or specialized current automotive technology, such as fuel injection, contemporary transmissions, emission controls, multiplexing communications, and/or hybrid/EV technology.

Equivalent combinations of training and experience may be considered at the College’s discretion

Preferred Qualifications

• Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) Certification.
• Experience teaching automotive technology.

Working Conditions

Work is typically performed in an office, classroom, and/or laboratory setting. This is an on-site position. Any remote work requires prior approval and must comply with MHCC Remote Work policies and administrative regulations. Remote work must be within the states of Oregon or Washington.

Salary Placement

Initial salary placement for Instructional Load Credit (ILC) Instructors will be based on applicable education and/or years of relevant full-time equivalent experience at the sole discretion of the College, per the guidelines in the Collective Bargaining Agreement and in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws. Initial salary placement for all other newly hired instructors will be at Level 1.