Lab Specialist II - Department of Biological Sciences

Clemson University

Clemson, SC

ED25

Regular FTE Staff

A high school diploma and journey-level technical experience in a related laboratory setting.

25% - Greenhouse and plant teaching support:
Provides routine greenhouse and plant-production support for teaching laboratories. Propagates, maintains, and monitors plant materials needed for instruction, including watering, irrigation, ventilation, lighting, temperature, and other environmental controls. Coordinates with instructors to collect, purchase, transport, and prepare plant materials for laboratory use and assists with proper disposal. Maintains greenhouse procedures and supplies, provides basic user training, and assists the Building Manager with greenhouse SOPs, safety, and access requirements.

15% - Training and Inventory:
Maintains and updates detailed written laboratory preparation protocols for teaching laboratory experiments. Assists in training and supervising temporary employees and student workers in the laboratory. Assists faculty in developing, improving and implementing new laboratory experiments. Assists in implementing and enforcing proper safety and waste disposal procedures, attends workshops and training sessions for updated safety regulations. Assists with maintaining and updating yearly chemical inventory.

20% - Laboratory testing and equipment maintenance:
Prepares and maintains equipment, materials, and supplies for laboratory experiments and data analysis in support of teaching labs that accommodate thousands of students per semester, including, but not limited to various forms of chemical analysis and media preparation, assays, microscopy, spectrophotometry, nucleic acid manipulations, and maintains a diverse microbial culture collection. Develops protocol for laboratory procedures and assists faculty in instructing teaching assistants on the procedures.

Maintain and calibrates complex departmental laboratory equipment.

40% - Teaching lab preparation:
Independently responsible for the preparation of aspects of multiple teaching labs, including physical setup and break down of weekly assigned laboratory experiments. Prepares chemical solutions, stains, media, and agar plate, electrophoresis gels, bacterial, protozoan, and all other pre-made materials and provides all necessary instrumentation and supplies. Replenishes supplies and solutions as necessary. Ensures appropriate analysis of experimental results. Provides technical support.

Firm working knowledge of concepts, practices and procedures and ability to use in varied situations.

Supervises Student workers only

No fiscal responsibility for the department's budget.

Walk or move about: 20%

Recognize or inspect visually: 45%

Mechanical hazards: 5%

Chemical hazards: 10%

Standard

Hours:

37.5

Expected Salary Range: 40000 - 43000

Salary is dependent upon several factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's previous experience, knowledge, skills and performance in accordance with Clemson's compensation guidelines.

Normal Operations - Required to follow emergency facility closure and modified operations directives, and not normally expected to work on-site during emergency situations.

Clemson, SC