Job Description
Description As a Spokane Public Schools staff member, you'll uphold our commitment to creating a loving and collaborative learning community where all students belong and thrive. We are looking for team members who embrace differences, have a desire to work with a diverse community of learners, have a heart for the humans they serve, work as a team, grow and reflect through feedback, are lifelong learners and positive problem solvers. FTE: 1.0 Contract Type: Continuing Anticipated Start Date: 2026-27 School Year Required Washington State Endorsement(s): Washington State CTE Teaching Certificate with appropriate Precision Metal Worker V-code #V480500, or the ability to verify 6,000 hours of recent occupational experience, formal training, and/or approved teaching experience in welding, metal fabrication, precision metal work, or a closely related field. Benefits- -Medical/Dental/Vision through SEBB (School Employee Benefits Board) are provided for employees who work at least 630 hours per academic year. Additional benefits may include vacation, sick, personal days, and paid holidays. Often, positions have additional pay provisions above what is represented on the salary schedule, all in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreements (if applicable) as negotiated. SALARY: Responsibilities Work with the local welding, fabrication, construction, manufacturing, and skilled trades industries, including the program advisory committee, Skill Center administration, Skill Center staff, professional associations, apprenticeship programs, unions, employers, and post-secondary partners to develop and maintain integrated, relevant academic, employability, and technical student learning competencies for the Welding program. Take primary responsibility for ensuring that program curriculum, shop expectations, safety procedures, and student activities align with Washington State CTE requirements, applicable WAC expectations, industry safety standards, and welding/fabrication credentialing expectations. Serve as the primary shop, lab, and/or work-based learning supervisor for students, ensuring appropriate student preparation, documentation, safety practices, equipment use, and communication with industry and work-site partners. Stay current with technological, regulatory, and practical advances in the welding and fabrication industry, including welding processes, blueprint reading, metallurgy, layout and fabrication, cutting processes, equipment maintenance, shop safety, inspection standards, and other areas included in the program curriculum. Develop and maintain industry-relevant curriculum units, long-range plans, weekly lesson plans, assessments, and competency-based learning activities aligned to welding, fabrication, employability, and Skill Center expectations. Integrate current welding industry technology, equipment, terminology, procedures, and best practices into curriculum and instructional strategies, to the extent resources are available. Provide instruction in relevant welding and fabrication skills, which may include SMAW/stick, GMAW/MIG, GTAW/TIG, FCAW, oxy-fuel cutting, plasma cutting, grinding, layout, measurement, fitting, blueprint reading, and safe use of hand and power tools. Develop and implement effective leadership, employability, shop readiness, industry credentialing, and work-based learning opportunities for all students. Maintain a safe, organized, and instructionally effective welding shop, including proper use, storage, inspection, and maintenance of tools, materials, machines, personal protective equipment, and safety systems. Work as an effective member of the Skill Center team to evaluate, market, strengthen, and continuously improve the Welding program. Organize the instructional program to support individual student learning needs, including students with varying academic, technical, employability, and shop-readiness levels. Maintain appropriate and required student records, including competency documentation, safety training records, equipment authorization records, work-based learning records, assessments, grades, attendance, and other program-related documentation. Communicate and interpret the Welding program to students, families, home high schools, industry partners, advisory committee members, and other stakeholders. Communicate student assessment goals, shop safety readiness, competency progress, employability skills, and overall program progress to students, parents/guardians, and the student’s home high school on a regular basis. Develop and maintain an effective Welding program advisory committee that includes local welding professionals, fabrication and manufacturing employers, constructi