Lab Assistant (Hourly)

About the Role

To provide temporary assistance in a lab setting.

Responsibilities

• Performs clerical duties including operating a computer, maintaining records and files, and compiling data and reports as required.
• Maintains an inventory of supplies and materials.
• Initiates purchase requisitions, and monitors expenditures; may prepare cost estimates for budget recommendation, and/or submit justifications and request for capital outlay items.
• Operates, installs, and maintains equipment.
• May set up, configure and/or calibrate new equipment; may perform routine maintenance and repair.
• May assist students, or monitor and assist students, faculty, and staff in the use of equipment or facilities.

Qualifications

• Two years related work experience.
• High school diploma or educational equivalent.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Knowledge:

• Office administration and bookkeeping principles and practices.
• Knowledge of specialized discipline depending on the area of assignment.
• Safety principles and practices as it applies to area of assignment.

Skills:

• Effectively using organizational and planning skills.
• Effectively working with a multicultural student body.
• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Understanding and following instructions precisely.
• Handling lab materials precisely and accurately.
• Maintaining an established work schedule.
• Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills.

Technology Skills:

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

Pay

$23.00/hour

Schedule

Number of openings: 2. Job postings are removed from advertising at 12:00 A.M. on the closing date (September 3, 2026).

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 need to lift heavy objects of up to 50 pounds and occasionally up to 100 pounds.
• May be exposed to a variety of temperatures, noise, moving mechanical parts, or chemicals.
• Specific vision abilities may include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to focus.