Laboratory Specialist - HVAC

Job Summary

Incumbents assist instructors, staff, faculty and students in the lab of an assigned program, and coordinate laboratory experiments and activities.

Essential Functions

• Prepare, set up, dispose, store, procure, clean, and/or maintain equipment, instruments, chemicals, materials, models, slides, specimens, and/or software necessary for laboratory experiments and activities; work may also involve fabricating tools.
• Ensure that all operations are performed in compliance with experimental and demonstration protocols, safety procedures, chemical handling and collection guidelines, and other applicable laws, guidelines, policies, and regulations; work may involve reviewing new experimental protocols or lab manuals to ensure safety procedures are followed.
• Provide training and guidance to lower-level staff and student workers; work involves prioritizing and assigning work and ensuring that work is performed in accordance with applicable policies and procedures.
• Coordinate assigned and routine laboratory activities, to include preparing laboratory schedules; proctoring exams when needed; monitoring student safety; conducting trainings for students on assigned laboratory tools, equipment, and operations; conducting student tours and demos; responding to laboratory-related inquiries via phone or in person; and coordinating requests for equipment and supplies.
• Prepare and submit purchase requisitions to appropriate departments or personnel; work may involve updating vendors on order status, compiling bid specification information, and making recommendations for equipment maintenance and purchase.
• Maintain laboratory inventory, to include ordering and maintaining supplies, equipment, chemicals, specimens, instruments, and other materials; checking out tools, supplies, and equipment to faculty or students; storing samples and specimens; researching information regarding applicable supplies and materials; and maintaining purchase receipts, logs, and other documentation.
• Assist with developing the departmental budget, to include assessing departmental needs and monitoring expenditures.
• Prepare, maintain, and/or distribute billing, protocol, chemical usage, inventory logs, curriculum, and other reports, lists, records, manuals, and other documentation; work may involve researching and compiling information, and ensuring information accuracy.
• Performs other duties as assigned.