Laboratory Technician II

Department: Dean of Science and Engineering

Location: Wellesley Hills

Mass Bay fosters educational excellence and academic success to prepare students for local and global citizenship, to promote their personal growth, to meet critical workforce demands of communities, and to contribute to the region's economic development.

Massachusetts Bay Community College is served by a cadre of employees of varied backgrounds and experiences. We invite all individuals to consider joining our community.

Located in Greater Boston, Mass Bay is a comprehensive, open-access community college, offering associate degrees and certificate programs on three campuses in Wellesley Hills, Framingham, and Ashland, Massachusetts.

Position Summary:

The ideal candidate will join a vibrant educational community and have a desire and ability to serve a population of students with various needs and backgrounds.

The Laboratory Technician II position supports and maintains the STEM laboratories in Wellesley Hills under the supervision of the Lab Manager in accordance with college policies and procedures. This position will require occasional evening and weekend work, as needed.

Key

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Set up STEM laboratory experiments preparing chemical solutions, buffers, and biological cultures following appropriate lab safety protocols as required;
• Provide support to teaching faculty and students when required;
• Maintain general order in the STEM labs as well as cleanliness and safety of laboratory spaces and perform related duties including but not limited to light custodial duties, sterilization of equipment and glassware, washing of glassware, and identification and removal of hazardous waste removal as needed following applicable safety standards;
• Read and maintain a log of temperatures and pressures of key equipment in all STEM labs and promptly notify appropriate staff of any problems and needs;
• Assist in preparing and filing lab safety incident reports and updating related databases including but not limited to STEM lab inventory, Safety Data
• Sheets (SDS), and equipment surplus records;
• Carry out weekend and evening duties as assigned;
• Participate in assigned trainings as needed;
• Perform administrative tasks associated with department activities including picking up materials from local stores, receiving supplies and materials, assessing inventory and communicating needs, identifying storage and storing/restocking routine supplies, printing and picking up printed materials, and communicating with faculty, staff, and vendors as needed; and
• Carry out other duties as assigned.

This list is not to be considered all-inclusive. A supervisor may assign other duties as required to meet the needs and foster the mission of the College.

All employees of Mass Bay are expected to work collegially and collaboratively within a community that values and celebrates the variety of student experience.

Minimum Qualifications:

Applicants must have at least (A) two years of full-time, or equivalent part-time, technical or professional experience in laboratory work in a recognized clinical, medical, hospital, chemical, water quality, public health, biological, bacteriological, marine sciences or materials testing laboratory, or (B) any equivalent combination of the required experience and the substitutions below.

Substitutions:

• An Associate's degree or higher with a major in medical technology chemistry, bacteriology, food science and technology, environmental science, chemical or environmental engineering, wastewater technology, oceanography or the biological sciences may be substituted for a maximum of one year of the required experience.

2. The successful completion of one year of full-time, or equivalent part-time,…