Technician, Senior Lab (Welding Labs)

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.

• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:

Technician, Senior Lab (Welding Labs)

Department-Specific Recruitment Details:

Job Description Summary:

Provides advanced technical support for welding, fabrication, and blacksmithing instructional laboratories by maintaining and repairing specialized equipment, fabricating instructional tools, and ensuring safe laboratory operations. Coordinates laboratory activities, manages inventory and procurement, supports faculty and students, and ensures compliance with health, safety, and hazardous materials regulations to support high-quality instruction and student success.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

• Ensures safe laboratory conditions by implementing and maintaining safety standards, policies, and procedures for welding, blacksmithing, fabrication, and other high-risk laboratory operations. Ensures compliance with federal, state, local, and college hazardous materials, health and safety, and hazardous waste regulations. Conducts safety briefings and demonstrates safe equipment operation for students, faculty, and staff.
• Organizes, plans, prioritizes, and coordinates laboratory operations to support instructional activities and ensure laboratories, equipment, and materials are prepared to meet course objectives and program needs.
• Supports instructional activities by preparing training materials, fabricating instructional aids and specialized lab tools, assisting students and adjunct instructors with equipment operation and technical procedures, and promoting safe laboratory practices.
• Performs administrative and clerical duties including maintaining records, inventories, equipment documentation, and reports; operates computer systems and prepares required data, reports, and documentation.
• Maintains inventory of laboratory supplies, materials, consumables, equipment, and replacement parts; monitors inventory usage, forecasts supply needs, and ensures availability of materials to support instructional programs.
• Initiates and manages purchase requisitions for laboratory supplies, consumables, and capital equipment; prepares cost estimates, budget recommendations, and justifications; coordinates procurement activities, develops equipment specifications, evaluates vendor bids, and monitors expenditures in accordance with college policies.
• Installs, operates, inspects, troubleshoots, repairs, modifies, rebuilds, and performs preventive maintenance on laboratory equipment, including specialized welding, blacksmithing, fabrication, and industrial machinery. Configures, calibrates, and tests new equipment to ensure safe and effective operation.
• Applies advanced welding, fabrication, machining, and equipment maintenance expertise to diagnose complex equipment issues, fabricate custom instructional equipment and fixtures, and recommend equipment improvements that enhance laboratory operations and instructional effectiveness.
• Collects operational data, maintains maintenance and safety records, prepares required reports, and provides recommendations for equipment replacement, facility improvements, and operational efficiencies.
• May oversee, assign, train, and coordinate the work of student employees or other support personnel and perform other related duties as assigned.

Job Requirements 

Knowledge

• Knowledge of specialized discipline depending on the area of assignment.
• Hazardous material/waste handling and disposal.
• Laboratory safety practices.

Supplemental Knowledge

• Knowledge of welding, fabrication, blacksmithing, metalworking principles, metallurgy, and fabrication techniques. 
• Knowledge of the operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of welding, fabrication, and industrial equipment.
• Knowledge of inventory control, procurement, and budget administration.
• Knowledge of preventive maintenance practices and equipment calibration.

Skills

• Maintaining an established work schedule.
• Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills.
• Effectively using organizational and planning skills, including the use of attention to detail and follow-through.
• Understanding and following instructions precisely.
• Handling lab materials precisely and accurately.
• Effectively working with a diverse and multicultural student body.
• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.

Supplemental Skills

• Operate, troubleshoot, repair, modify, and maintain specialized welding, fabrication, blacksmithing, and industrial equipment.
• Fabricate custom tools, fixtures, instructional aids, and equipment to support instructional programs.
• Safely operate heavy industrial machinery, such as forges, power hammers, welding equipment, and CNC plasma systems.
• Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
• Use related laboratory software applications.

Minimum Qualifications 

Education:

• High school diploma or educational equivalent.

Experience:

• Two (2) years related work experience.

Physical Demands and Work Environment 

Physical Demands: 

• Work is performed in a variety of settings.
• Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling, and at times subject to stooping, crawling, and climbing.
• May need to lift heavy objects of up to 50 pounds and occasionally up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities may include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to focus.

Work Environment:

• This position falls under ACC's Remote/In-Person framework. 
• May be exposed to a variety of temperatures, noise, moving mechanical parts, or chemicals.

Salary Range

$53,029 - $65,683

Number of Openings:

1

Job Posting Close Date:

October 28, 2026

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Austin Community College produces an Annual Security Report as required by the Clery Act. This report includes statistics from the previous three years concerning reported crime that occurred on campus; public property adjacent to and accessible from campus; and in certain non-campus buildings/property owned or controlled by ACC. The report includes institutional policies concerning campus security and other safety information.

For direct access to the current Annual Security Report, visit www.austincc.edu/asr . You may obtain a hard copy by contacting the Clery Compliance Officer ( CleryComplianceOfficer@austincc.edu ). For an overview, see ACC's Clery Act website.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.