Generic Job Description
Laboratory Assistant III
Grade C
Representative Duties:
- Sets up, operates,
and distributes laboratory equipment and apparatus for experiments. Performs
equipment maintenance and repair. Modifies and adjusts equipment and apparatus
according to experiment and specifications.
- Creates instructional materials.
- Oversees and instructs support staff and students in laboratory
techniques and equipment usage.
- Performs specialized scientific/laboratory procedures and techniques.
Formulates scientific solutions and media.
- Maintains laboratory facilities and work areas.
- Orders supplies, equipment, and apparatus for laboratory experiments.
- Performs additional functions incidental to laboratory activities.
Family: Research
Job Code: 605 Date: 2/89
The job duties listed above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary from incumbent to incumbent in the job title
Yale
University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 605 Laboratory Assistant III Grade C
Required Knowledge:
Specialized college-level coursework; detailed but narrow knowledge in
one or several work-related areas; substantial knowledge of broader field
of learning.
Working knowledge of craft or trade.
Limited acquaintance with business, accounting, or commercial procedures.
Limited knowledge of University organizational policies and procedures
generally; detailed knowledge of a narrow area of University rules and
procedures.
Required Skills:
Extracts and compiles a narrow range of data from written sources, from
individuals by asking set questions, or from one or several given data
bases; coding based on prescribed simple standards.
Files already labeled material using a straightforward alphabetical, numerical,
or chronological system.
Use of one or several standard reference works.
Understands more complicated written instructions, memoranda, policy statements.
Writes simple internal memoranda, fills out complex forms.
Regular, skilled use of more complex machines, including word processors
or personal computers.
Performs one or several moderately complex laboratory or scientific procedures
that are not reversible and are not expensive to duplicate: records results
as necessary.
Office and Administrative
Skills:
Keyboards materials that regularly include medical or legal terminology
or foreign languages.
Formats, stores, and files data on a personal computer to generate basic,
pre-established reports.
Schedules and coordinates appointments.
Advises, screens and refers callers and visitors.
Experience, Education
and Formal Training:
Six years of related work experience, four of them in the same job family
at the next lower level, and a high school level education; or four years
of related work experience and an Associate degree; or little or no work
experience and a Bachelor degree in a related field; or an equivalent
combination of experience and education.
Complexity and Organization:
Limited variety of job tasks requiring coordinating steps/procedures.
Occasionally coordinates or organizes the work of others.
Interpersonal Relations:
Ongoing involvement outside immediate work unit.
Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on general
matters.
Understands and evaluates what is being said and responds with complex
answers that may take time to give.
Supervisory Guidelines:
Work is subject to general review on an occasional basis.
Incumbent plans and schedules own work and/or work of others based on
the understanding of broadly defined objectives and priorities, supervisor
reviews work after completion.
Instruction provided only in those new situations, methods, and procedures
that are not clearly related to existing tasks and duties.
Independent Judgment:
Established procedures/policies govern some work situations.
Occasional exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
Problems solved by choosing solutions from among several alternatives
that are not necessarily governed by established procedures.
Leadership Responsibility:
Occasionally provides general orientation to routine policies/procedures.
Sometimes distributes and monitors work.
Impact and Consequence
of Error:
Work affects outside the immediate work unit but rarely outside the University.
Errors are difficult to recognize and correct and can cause harm or financial
loss to individuals, departments, and the University, or to other individuals
or groups.
Working Conditions:
Occasional possibility of safety risks.
Occasional conflicting demands, time pressures, deadlines or emergencies.
Some sustained concentration.
Some physical effort or dexterity.
