Chemistry Technician

Job Title:

Chemistry Technician Department:
Chemistry Classification:
Non-Exempt Grade: 11

FTE/Working

Schedule:

0.92 FTE

Position Overview:

The Chemistry Technician is the co-manager of the Chemistry stockroom, who broadly oversees the department’s teaching and research laboratories, and trains, supervises, and evaluates student employees. The Technician prepares for Chemistry teaching laboratory experiments, maintains and calibrates instruments relevant to those experiments, partners with faculty and the Chemistry Laboratory Manager to test and implement new teaching laboratory experiments, and supports laboratory troubleshooting for the department’s faculty and laboratory students.

Compensation:

The expected starting hourly range for this position is between $32.70 and $33.80. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility.

Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities:

Assist the Lab Manager in overseeing the chemical stockroom, developing and implementing strategies for maintaining the inventory, purchasing equipment and chemicals, and supporting safe practices in the Chemistry Department laboratories.

With the Lab Manager, share responsibility for preparing Chemistry Department teaching laboratories, including consulting and strategizing with faculty before the term to prepare experiments, preparing and set out reagents, glassware, and equipment for use in laboratory, coordinating with faculty and the Chemical Hygiene Officer (CHO) to develop protocols for waste collection and removal, and troubleshooting any problems that arise during the laboratory meeting.

This work is performed with support from Chemistry Department student employees.

Instruct, supervise and evaluate student stockroom employees.

Maintain, calibrate, and troubleshoot instruments used for teaching laboratory experiments.

Assume the Lab Manager’s duties during periods of the Lab Manager’s absence.

Additional

Job Responsibilities:

Serve on the Chemistry Department Safety Committee.

Supervision Received and Exercised:

This position reports to the Department Chair of Chemistry and will hire, train, and supervise student assistants and will perform student worker evaluations.

Education/Experience/

Skills:

Required:

Bachelor’s degree required with a minimum of 2 years college chemistry, including General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry.

Minimum of 2 years of full-time professional, related experience working in a chemical laboratory setting required. Experience, or interest in, teaching students required.

Supervisory and leadership skills

Ability to manage a hectic, demanding work environment with poise.

Ability to take charge of urgent situations.

Ability to analyze situations, use common sense, apply knowledge base, and make sound judgments to solve problems and develop creative solutions to issues.

Ability to train, assign appropriate tasks to, supervise, and evaluate student workers.

Ability to interact and negotiate productively with diverse stakeholders, including faculty, staff, and students

Knowledge of and experience implementing good laboratory techniques.

Ability to maintain a clean, safe work environment, and teach these practices to student workers.

Ability to properly prepare a variety of reagents, including precise analytical standard reagents, and to properly work with a large variety of hazardous materials and assess/minimize risks associated with those materials.

Ability to interpret and translate Safety Data Sheet (SDS) information into laboratory chemical safety information.

Understanding of best practices related to chemical hygiene, and ability to coordinate with multiple stakeholders…