Lab Technician (Finance)
Department: Natural Sciences Salary: $39,923 - $40,620
Description:
Job Summary
The Lab Technician conducts a range of tasks supporting the efficient and safe preparation and conduct of biology and chemistry lab courses.
Duties
- Assists faculty and students with their laboratory classes and with their research
- Prepares and sets up labs to support chemistry courses
- Designs and executes laboratory protocols and assists faculty with ensuring students understand the material and are able to apply their knowledge to real world situations
- Ensures that the laboratory environment is kept neat and clean and is in compliance with standard safety regulations
- Monitors the stockroom and maintains inventories of the chemicals and the supplies needed for classes
- Troubleshoots analytical instruments
- Participates in projects as required
- Assists professors with their daily duties
Marginal Duties
- Performs all other duties as assigned
Supervisory Responsibilities
Direct Reports:
- May supervise student workers
Delegation of Work:
- May assign work to subordinate(s)
Supervision Given:
- May supervise student workers
Qualifications
Required Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Biology, Chemistry, or a related field
Required Experience:
- Minimum of one (1) year of related job experience
License/Certification:
- None required
Preferred Qualifications
- None
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Knowledge:
- Knowledge of lab equipment and materials and related safety and operational protocols
- Knowledge of PCR
- Knowledge of PH
Skills:
- Good technical skills, including proficiency in MS Office and PeopleSoft
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Abilities:
- Ability to mix and dilute solutions precisely
- Ability to apply critical thinking and reasoning
- Ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of individuals and constituencies in a diverse community
Work Location and Physical Demands
Primary Work Location:
- Works in a laboratory environment
Physical Demands:
- Work is normally performed in a laboratory environment. Individual may walk and stand for considerable periods, and has moderate exposure to physical risks
- Work involves handling of reagents and instruments commonly associated with biology and chemistry labs, and will routinely involve exposure to potentially hazardous or cancer-causing agents or chemicals
- Individual may be exposed to elements such as oils, dust, fumes, airborne particles, inclement weather, and extreme temperatures
- May, on rare occasions, be required to work in a confined space or in a high dangerous place
- May, on rare occasions, be required to work near moving mechanical parts, or be exposed to the risk of an electric shock
- May, on rare occasions, be exposed to potentially hazardous bodily fluids
- Individual may, on rare occasions be exposed to vibration
- May occasionally be required to wear a respirator
- Must have clarity of vision, good spatial awareness, and the ability to identify and distinguish colors
- May be required to move items of up to 100lbs
All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check.
The University of Houston System and its universities are Equal Opportunity Institutions. Everyone is encouraged to apply.
