Instructional Associate-Industrial Technology (In-house Only) - Coast Community College District

Orange Coast College (OCC) is seeking equity-minded individuals for a classified employee role as an Instructional Associate-Industrial Technology, as part of the Technology Division. 

About Orange Coast College (OCC)
Orange Coast College's 164-acre campus is located in Costa Mesa just minutes from Southern California's beautiful beaches. Orange Coast College (OCC) was founded in 1947 with the mission to serve the educational needs of a diverse local and global community. The College empowers students to achieve their goals by providing high-quality, culturally responsive, and innovative programs and services through pathways leading to degrees, transfers, certificates, foundational skills, workforce development, and lifelong learning.  The College promotes student development, learning, and equitable outcomes by fostering a respectful, inclusive, caring, and participatory campus climate of student engagement and academic inquiry.  

OCC engages in a variety of professional development opportunities and partnerships so that we can serve disproportionately impacted groups. Student-centered activities that support OCC's mission include campus-wide student success projects funded by the Office of Student Equity; partnerships with local Hispanic Serving four-year institutions; active programs that work to improve the academic achievement of racially minoritized students, such as PUENTE and UMOJA; Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) and Disabled Student Program and Services (DSPS).  Additionally, OCC is an officially designated Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and has an eligibility designation as an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI). 

D.E.I.A. - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism
The Coast Community College District (Orange Coast College, Golden West College, and Coastline) continues to strengthen our efforts around diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and anti-racism. Orange Coast College is focused on creating a culture of inclusive excellence by uplifting employees and students through an environment that is equitable, diverse, inclusive, and accessible. We have a strong focus and importance on D.E.I.A. and Anti-Racism (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility) and will be actively listening, assessing, and evaluating this throughout each stage of the application, recruitment, and interview process.

• Orange Coast College - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Page
• Orange Coast College - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility Plan (DEIA)

Ideal candidates for this position share OCC's devotion to educating and improving the lives of our representative students, employees, and community populations.  We currently enroll 17,102 students, the majority of whom are from racially minoritized populations: 36% of OCC's students are Latinx, 2% are African-American, 25% are Asian, less than 1% Native American, 29% are White, and 5% are multiracial. 

Orange Coast College Employee-Student Demographic Information
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Department Specifics: About OCC Technology Division

The Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration (HVACR) program prepares students for employment as heating, ventilating air conditioning, and refrigeration technicians. Students will be trained to install, service, and maintain air conditioning/refrigeration equipment in buildings. The program provides a background for more advanced studies in the design and installation of computerized building automation systems.

Refrigeration relates to the cooling of air or liquids, thus providing lower temperatures to preserve food, cool beverages, make ice, and many other applications. Air conditioning includes space cooling, heating, humidification, dehumidification, air filtration, and ventilation to condition the air and improve air quality. The field of HVACR Technology is vital to our health and security, from the cryogenic (ultra-low temperatures) scientific field to the preservation of our food products to the air conditioning of hospitals and institutions.

This Instructional Associate position in Technology will work primarily with faculty and students in the HVACR Program at OCC (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration) to support classroom and labs for successful instruction. This position supports our two full-time HVAC faculty who offer 8 classes per semester, with about 30 students each.  The HVAC area has (XXX) classroom spaces and a stockroom space that the position will maintain. 

This position includes:

• Working with HVACR equipment, materials, and supplies
• Functioning in indoor and outdoor classrooms and labs
• Supporting HVACR labs for classrooms such as:
  1. Preparing HVACR Labs for classes (classroom set-up)
  2. Dismantling HVACR labs after class and storing equipment and supplies
  3. Inventorying of HVACR equipment, materials, and supplies
  4. Assisting faculty and students with the use of HVAC and Refrigeration materials and supplies to support instruction
• Operating heavy equipment such as forklifts following required safety standards at college
• Supporting the purchasing processes for equipment, supplies, and equipment for the HVACR program
• Transporting supplies such as refrigerants following EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and college requirements
• Working with diverse populations

Summary 
Provides technical and instructional assistance to students involved in a technical or applied science discipline that includes laboratory settings designed to further their knowledge. Sets up, demonstrates, oversees, designs, tests, or simulates situations to support learning in compliance with student lab requirements. 

Distinguishing Career Features
The Instructional Associate for Industrial Technology supports instruction in classroom and scheduled classroom lab environments supporting welding technology, manufacturing technology, aviation maintenance technology, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration technology, and related curricula. It is part of a career path for instructional and laboratory support. Instructional Lab Assistant is the first level, generally working under the guidance of an Associate, concentrating on preparations, and having minimal involvement with in-class demonstrations. The Assistant may work with pre-college level courses. Advancement to Associate requires compliance with the stated qualifications, namely a subject matter-specific degree, the ability to perform classroom demonstrations, support all levels of coursework in the assigned subjects, and discipline-specific ability to perform equipment inspection and maintenance. Advancement potential exists for an Instructional Lab Coordinator where the requirement is to oversee scheduled and walk-in labs in addition to providing in-class support.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Specific duties may vary among departments, divisions, and jobs. Incumbents typically perform a substantial portion or all the following types of duties, as assigned:

• Works with students individually and in class-sized groups to enhance their learning. Provides direct assistance in the use of equipment and materials needed for instruction as well as orienting students to the laboratory. Sets up established laboratory experiences for students as required by the course outline or faculty direction.
• Works with faculty/instructional administrator to design, construct, troubleshoot, modify, or rebuild equipment, modules, and experiments that will be used in the classrooms/laboratories in a division comprised of various related but different subject areas. 
• Assists instructors in the classroom/laboratory concurrently with lectures or discussions. May perform more dangerous and/or complex procedures for students.
• Receives study and simulation modules from faculty members, then facilitates discussion and/or lab work with small groups of students who are participating in the exercises. 
• Administers learning simulations, tests, and quizzes to students as provided by instructors in class, lab, or remote access environment. Assists instructors by administering make-up tests.  
• Designs, constructs, and/or fabricates equipment, modules, and experiments that will assist the instructor in the delivery of desired instructional outcomes. 
• Initiates orders for equipment, materials, and supplies from approved vendors such as but not limited to chemicals, reagents, fuels, apparatus, etc., and written materials required for student instructional needs. 
• Makes repairs to equipment and learning assistance devices. Checks out and maintains control over tools, equipment, supplies, and materials used by students. May be required to maintain contact with appropriate vendors. 
• Maintains records of laboratory activity, including typing forms or inputting data or otherwise retaining information regarding the acquisition, maintenance, and distribution of tools, equipment, materials, supplies, and/or written materials. 
• Maintains up-to-date documentation of hazardous or dangerous materials, substances, gasses, petroleum distillates, and chemicals. 
• Provides for the general cleanliness and security of the laboratory or shop work area. Handles and disposes of harmful or hazardous materials according to specific instructions relating to their disposal. Participates in providing a safe environment for the conduct of the laboratory. Addresses maintenance problems as they occur. 
• Oversees the work of student helpers. Coordinates their activities in support of the instructional goals. Trains student helpers in appropriate technical aspects of their work. May maintain records for pay purposes. 
• Assists with the budgeting process through research and assembly of pertinent historic information and projections. Administers approved budgets. Initiates purchase requisitions for supplies, equipment, and services. Monitors and maintains material and equipment inventories. 
• Performs other related duties as assigned that support the objective of the position.
• Required to abide by all District policies and procedures including Board Policy 3050 – Code of Professional Ethics.