ARCHITECTURE - Workshop Supervisor

Job Classification

  Hourly Under Half (<20)

Position summary

This individual demonstrates technical and experiential competence in education, focusing on woodworking, construction, and manufacturing, with significant experience operating a woodworking facility and business while teaching courses as requested.

Qualifications summary

• Project management


• Shop management (inventory, cash flow, scheduled maintenance)


• Ability to apply hands-on techniques to learning experiences


• Funiture and design and construction


• Custom woodworking


• Digital fabrication


• CNC programming, woodworking and operation


• Machine Maintenance and repair


• Managing of multiple concurrent projects


• Instruction of CAD and CNC classes


• Residential and/ or commercial construction

Must be a Seventh-day Adventist in good and regular standing.

Duties and responsibilities

• Supervise the Carscallen Mission Workshop


• Use of the Workshop facility to create non-tuition based revenue


• Teach students at the undergraduate and graduate levels


• Create/review and update syllabi for courses as required


• Maintain professional expertise


• Participate in collecting assessment data for the school


• Other duties as assigned by the School of Architecture & Interior Design and the University

Supervisory responsibilities

Carscallen Mission Workshop supervision

Qualifications

• Commitment to Christ, personal spiritual maturity, and an exemplar character


• Master's Degree in one of the following disciplines, architecture, industrial, construction


• Hands-on construction experience preferred


• Teaching experience preferred


• Ability to teach construction and furniture construction classes


• 20+ years in woodworking

Must be a Seventh-day Adventist in good and regular standing.

Technical competencies

• Current knowledge and experience in the use of information and computer technology (e.g., AutoCad, Revit) or proven ability to learn these skills


• Ability to navigate the online environment and work with Learning Management System (LMS) – Moodle (Learning Hub) preferred but training will be given


• Hands-on construction experience preferred

Interpersonal interactions

• Must be competent in mentoring students about living as a Christian witness in the workplace


• Must be competent in interacting with students in an advisory role


• Must be skilled in interacting with multi-ethnic and multi-national faculty and student population


• Must be able to work effectively as a team member


• Must have the ability to form good student and peer relationships


• Must be an effective presenter/speaker/teacher


• Willingness to be flexible in teaching and other assignments


• Must be competent mentoring students about living a Christian witness in the workplace


• Must be competent interacting with students in an advisory role


• Must be competent interacting with multiethnic and multinational faculty and student population


• Must be able to work effectively as a team member


• Must have the ability to form good student and peer relationships


• Must be an effective presenter/speaker/teacher


• Willingness to be flexible in teaching and other assignments

Physical demands

• Must be able to perform standard classroom and woodshop instruction


• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions


• Must be able to lift 60 pounds


• Must be able to safely climb ladders and work at heights of 15 above ground.


• Must be able to perform normal classroom and design studio instruction


• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions

Work environment

• Workshop classes and work will be conducted in the Carscallen Mission Workshop and Architecture building.


• The workshop can have high noise levels.


• Lecture and studio courses will be taught mostly in the Architecture building; while some courses may require use of the design/build workshop, as well as domestic or international travel (e.g., field trips, mission trips and/or study tours)