Part Time Teijin Automotive Technologies Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Salary: See Position Description
Location : Gresham Campus, OR
Job Type: Part-time Faculty and Tutor
Job Number: 2025-00116
Division: Instruction
Opening Date: 06/09/2026
Job Summary and Responsibilities/Duties
For best consideration, please submit application materials by June 21, 2026.
Job Summary
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.
Essential Duties

1. 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.
2. Provides student contact before or after class, during office hours, email, or other communications methods.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Maintains classroom, laboratory, and departmental equipment and provides for the security of facilities and instructional materials as appropriate.
6. Convenes classes on time and as scheduled.
7. Implements grading practices that emphasizes learning and growth, minimizes anxiety, rewards success, and provides students multiple opportunities to fall, recover, and advance.
8. Maintains accurate evaluation and grading records and submits grades and documentation in accordance with College timelines.
9. 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 and Desired Qualifications
Minimum 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 and Important Information
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.
Please include all relevant education and full and part-time experience (including unpaid and volunteer experience) in your application that you want the College to review towards potential placement. Hired employees will not have an opportunity to update past education and/or experience or appeal initial placement after the time of hire.
Compensation and Benefits Information for Part-Time Instructors
Part-time Instructors may teach classes within a variety of programs, including credit-based, Community Education, and ABE, GED, and ESL programs. There is no guaranteed minimum teaching load or hours worked.
Credit-based classes: Part-time Instructors for credit-based classes are paid per instructional load credit (ILC) according to the salary schedule below. Salary level will be based on educational level and total accumulated ILCs as part-time instructors at the College;initial placement will not exceed Level 2.
LevelAccumulated ILCs$ Per Term Per ILC10 - 44.9$991.36245 - 89.9$1035.98390 - 134.9$1082.604135 - 179.9$1131.325180 - 224.9$1182.246225 - 269.9$1235.437270 - 314.9$1291.048315 - 359.9$1349.159360 - 404.9$1409.8610405 - 449.9$1473.2911450 - 494.9$1539.5812495 -539.9$1608.8613540 or more$1681.26?
Community Education: Part-time Instructors for Community Education classes and represented by the Part-Time Faculty and Tutor Association (PFTA) are paid based on accumulated work hours according to the salary schedule below; all new employees will start at level 1.
Level*Accumulated Work HoursLecture/DemonstrationLecture/Discussion10 - 1000$43.20$52.3721001 - 2000$45.18$54.7232001 or more$47.18$57.18
ABE, GED, and ESL programs: Part-time Instructors for ABE, GED, and ESL programs classes are paid based on accumulated work hours according to the salary schedule below; all new employees will start at level 1.
Level*Accumulated Work HoursABE, GED, ESL Instructors10 - 1000$90.1621001 - 2000$95.2632001 - 3000$99.5143001 - 4000$104.0054001 - 5000$108.6565001 - 6000$113.5476001 - 7000$118.6487001 - 8000$123.9898001 - 9000$129.57109001 - 10000$135.401110001 - 11000$141.491211001 or more$147.851312001 or more$154.51
Sick Leave
New hires will receive eight (8) hours of sick leave upon hire. An ILC instructor will receive one hour per term of paid sick leave per ILC, which includes Special Loading. An hourly instructor or tutor will receive one hour of paid sick leave per 11 hours of employment. Unused sick leave will accumulate up to a maximum of 80 hours and be available for use in subsequent academic terms.
Tuition Waiver Plan
Each employee will be eligible for a full tuition waiver, which is equivalent to 24 credits, for each term in which the employee is working for the College. Such waiver may be used for tuition for credit courses or the fee in lieu of tuition for noncredit courses (commonly called Fee B). Such tuition waivers are not cumulative. However, an employee may use a tuition waiver in the term immediately following the term in which the waiver was earned. Employees and their spouses/domestic partners will pay only course-specific fees. Tuition waiver(s) may be assigned by the employee to his/her immediate family (to one or amongst the family) to be used in the term in which the waiver is earned by the employee or the term immediately following the term in which the waiver was earned.
01
Do you have an Associate degree in automotive technology or related field?

• Yes
• No
• I believe I have an equivalent combination of education and experience to qualify

02
Do you have three (3) years of experience as a technician in a dealership and/or independent repair shop?

• Yes
• No
• I believe I have an equivalent combination of education and experience to qualify

03
Do you have knowledge of general and/or specialized current automotive technology, such as fuel injection, contemporary transmissions, emission controls, multiplexing communications, and/or hybrid/EV technology?

• Yes
• No

Required Question