Adjunct Instructor, Welding Technology
Location
Durham, NC
Wage
$64,188 – $77,355/yr
Employment Type
Part-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on October 6, 2026
Location
Durham, NC
Wage
$64,188 – $77,355/yr
Employment Type
Part-time
Posted on October 6, 2026
Durham Technical Community College is hiring an adjunct instructor in the Welding Technology Program. The Welding Instructor is responsible for teaching courses in the Welding program and collaborating with the Director of Welding and other faculty to plan, implement, coordinate, and evaluate instruction.
At roughly $34/hr, this posting sits about 13% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs across North Carolina — toward the top of a $21–$34/hr middle band drawn from 43 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 56% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Durham, NC, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across North Carolina as a whole we're tracking 100 other active welding openings from 53 employers. Browse welding jobs across North Carolina.
The most active employers in North Carolina at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Classic Collision (13), Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (8), and Environmental Air Systems (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within North Carolina, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Charlotte at $36/hr and Denver at $20/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
This posting calls for MIG, TIG, and Stick work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Adjunct Instructor, Welding Technology figures were last recalculated when this page was built.