{"id":2886,"date":"2018-05-04T12:25:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T12:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2018-05-04T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T17:12:00","slug":"tstc-west-texas-campuses-seeking-welding-instructors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=2886","title":{"rendered":"TSTC West Texas Campuses Seeking Welding Instructors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(ABILENE) \u2013 Texas State Technical College is looking for motivational people who can put a spark in the lives of Welding Technology students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TSTC\u2019s campuses in Abilene, Breckenridge and Brownwood are seeking three qualified welding instructors with a combination of professional and teaching experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are always looking for awesome people to join our TSTC team,\u201d said Rhiannon Hastings, lead statewide recruiter in TSTC Human Resources. \u201cWe truly value hands-on experience in industry to provide the best learning experiences possible for our students at TSTC.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting this fall, TSTC in Abilene will offer the Associate of Applied Science degree in Welding Technology and two certificates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TSTC in Breckenridge offers a three-semester certificate in structural welding and accepts up to 20 students each semester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf you like small-town living, a great place to raise a family and a place where everybody knows everybody, it can work for you,\u201d said Debbie Karl, executive director of the Breckenridge campus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TSTC in Brownwood can accommodate 28 structural welding certificate students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe need someone with experience,\u201d said Raquel Mata, executive director of the Brownwood campus. \u201cWe would like to have someone well known to the businesses and can meet and greet and have moments with them to get to know them. We want someone to be a good fit for our students and be a good leader.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applicants need to have current American Welding Society certifications and \u00a0experience in shielded metal arc, flux-cored arc, gas metal arc and gas tungsten arc welding processes, along with fabrication, layout and pipe welding. Applicants having an associate degree in welding are preferred.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TSTC is a state institution offering Health Select of Texas administered by Blue Cross Blue Shield, paid vacation days, sick leave and state holidays, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, flexible spending accounts and retirement. The technical college also offers employee development and employee appreciation events as part of its overarching goal to make TSTC a great place to work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information on employment at Texas State Technical College, go to tstc.edu\/about\/employment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ABILENE) \u2013 Texas State Technical College is looking for motivational people who can put a spark in the lives of Welding Technology students. TSTC\u2019s campuses in Abilene, Breckenridge and Brownwood are seeking three qualified welding instructors with a combination of professional and teaching experience. \u201cWe are always looking for awesome people to join our TSTC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilene","category-breckenridge","category-brownwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2887,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}