Assistant, Senior 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, Senior Lab

Job Description Summary:

To provide lab and/or technical classroom support services to students, faculty and staff.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

1) Ensures safe laboratory conditions including safe and secure handling and storage of supplies and equipment. May recommend, implement, and maintain safety standards and departmental policies and procedures to comply with federal, state, and local hazardous materials, health and safety, hazardous waste regulations, and other applicable regulations.
2) Organizes, plans, and prioritizes laboratory activities for designated area.
3) May assist students in use of lab equipment and facilities.
4) Performs clerical duties including operating a computer, maintaining records and files, and compiling data and reports as required.
5) Maintains an inventory of supplies and materials.
6) Initiates purchase requisitions, controls expenditures, and prepares cost estimates for budget recommendation; submits justifications and requests for capital outlay items; may prepare specifications and analyze bids for purchases.
7) Operates, installs, maintains, and troubleshoots equipment; sets up, configures, and calibrates new equipment. Performs routine maintenance and repair.
8) Collects data, records, and other information, and submits reports as required.
9) May oversee or delegate related tasks to others as deemed appropriate by the supervisor.

10) Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge

* Knowledge of specialized discipline depending on the area of assignment.
* Hazardous material/waste handling and disposal.
* Laboratory safety practices.

Skills

* Maintaining an established work schedule.
* Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills.
* Effectively using organizational and planning skills, including the use of attention to detail and follow-through.
* Understanding and following instructions precisely.
* Handling lab materials precisely and accurately.
* Effectively working with a diverse and multicultural student body.
* Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
* Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.

Technology Skills

* Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
* Use related laboratory software applications.

Required Work Experience

* Two years related work experience.

Required Education

* High school diploma or educational equivalent.

Physical Requirements

* Work is performed in a variety of settings.
* Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling, and at times subject to stooping, crawling, and climbing.
* May