TITLE: Lab Manager
FLSA STATUS: Exempt
CATEGORY:
GRADE:
Professional
D
JOB SUMMARY: Supervise the operations of laboratory facility services and/or laboratory materials storeroom, which maintain and support a wide variety of laboratory and field programs.
Provide personnel management of staff assigned to laboratories.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: YEARLY
PERCENT OF
TIME
30% 1. Plan, implement, and coordinate the daily operations of campus instructional labs, including staffing, communication, problem resolution, equipment maintenance, and supplies. Supervise the activities of students, faculty, and staff to ensure a safe learning environment.
Provides orientation to faculty, staff, and students in the use of the laboratory, equipment, and supplies.
2.
Provide direct supervision and personnel management of full-time, parttime, and work study staff assigned to the laboratory.
3. Provide support to faculty through instructional assistance; participating in the evaluation and selection of learning materials; and participate in preparation of instructional materials for lectures and/or labs.
Coordinate with instructional liaison to ensure proper academic and technical support is available to students and faculty.
30%
20%
4. Develop and maintain an inventory system for instructional materials and equipment. Ensure equipment is in good working order. May perform or oversee the performance of routine repair and maintenance.
5. Recommend short- and long-term goals/objectives and/or operating policies/procedures. Develop budget recommendation and coordinate lab activities within approved budget.
6. Other duties as assigned.
REPORTING RELATIONSHIP : Administrator
10%
5%
5%
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES : Provide direct supervision of personnel assigned to laboratory.
ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS :
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
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EXPERIENCE : Three (3) years related experience.
SPECIAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES: both oral and written. Familiarity with computer hardware and software, and assigned laboratory equipment, in order to effectively diagnose problems.
2. Equipment Personal computers and related equipment found in a laboratory.
Used:
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS :
Duties require little to moderate physical effort in working with light (up to 30lbs), easy to handle materials. Duties performed may cause light fatigue of eyes, fingers, or other faculties due to long periods of standing, sitting, or repetitive motion.
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:
Skills of persuasiveness or assertiveness, as well as, sensitivity to the other person’s point of view are often required to influence behavior, change an opinion, turn a situation around, cause action, or understanding in others. This level of interpersonal skills is required in positions, which regularly interact with others, through personal contact or presentations, within the organization or members in the community.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Job is performed in laboratory or comparable working area with many and frequent distractions such as noise, interruptions, or congested work areas with exposure to some disagreeable elements. Requires frequent travel throughout the district.
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employee may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically present in this description.
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