Assistant, Lab

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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:

Assistant, Lab

Job Description Summary:

To provide temporary assistance in a lab setting.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

1) Prepare and assist with setting up and cleaning up lab equipment for student-conducted experiments; may include assisting faculty and/or students during lab experiments, exercises, and exams.
2) Performs annual inventory of lab equipment.
3) Maintains a working knowledge of a variety of laboratory equipment and demonstrates the safe and proper use/disposal of equipment including hazardous material(s).
4) Prepares, tests, adjusts, modifies, performs routine maintenance on, calibrates a variety of technical laboratory equipment, and troubleshoots equipment.
5) Ensures lab safety and responds to laboratory emergencies. Maintain working knowledge of health and safety procedures/regulations.
6) Ensures EHS compliance in the laboratory through proper storage of equipment and hazardous material(s).
 

Knowledge

* Knowledge of laboratory safety practices.
* Knowledge of discipline related technical equipment.
* Knowledge of basic discipline related equipment technical support.
* Knowledge of instructional lab best practices.
* Safely handling, using, and storing lab equipment.
* Basic administrative procedures and practices; including inventory.

Skills

* Maintains a regular, consistent work schedule.
* Ability to provide technical support including troubleshooting and maintaining lab equipment.
* Ability to communicate effectively with a diverse population including faculty, staff, students, and external parties.
* Problem solving and analysis as an attempt to improve laboratory success and student learning.
 

Technology Skills

* Ability to use a variety of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software
* Ability to set up, use, and maintain related laboratory-related software applications.
* Ability to perform technical support of discipline related equipment, including both hardware and software.

Required Work Experience

* Experience in an instructional lab setting

Preferred Work Experience

* Two years of physics lab related experience and experience with working well with people.

Required Education

High school degree, including high school-level Physics

Preferred Education

College-level physics
 

Physical Requirements

* Work is performed in a classroom lab and prep setting and may include fieldwork.
* Must be able to lift objects up to 40 lbs.
* Ability to stand, kneel, sit and reach.
* Hand/finger dexterity to perform the essential functions, including the use of the keyboard.