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The Technician prepares for Chemistry teaching laboratory experiments, maintains and calibrates instruments relevant to those experiments, partners with faculty and the Chemistry Laboratory Manager to test and implement new teaching laboratory experiments, and supports laboratory troubleshooting for the department’s faculty and laboratory students.\nCompensation:\nThe expected starting hourly range for this position is between $32.70 and $33.80. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility.\nEssential Job Functions/Responsibilities:\nAssist the Lab Manager in overseeing the chemical stockroom, developing and implementing strategies for maintaining the inventory, purchasing equipment and chemicals, and supporting safe practices in the Chemistry Department laboratories.\nWith the Lab Manager, share responsibility for preparing Chemistry Department teaching laboratories, including consulting and strategizing with faculty before the term to prepare experiments, preparing and set out reagents, glassware, and equipment for use in laboratory, coordinating with faculty and the Chemical Hygiene Officer (CHO) to develop protocols for waste collection and removal, and troubleshooting any problems that arise during the laboratory meeting. This work is performed with support from Chemistry Department student employees.\nInstruct, supervise and evaluate student stockroom employees.\nMaintain, calibrate, and troubleshoot instruments used for teaching laboratory experiments.\nAssume the Lab Manager’s duties during periods of the Lab Manager’s absence.\nAdditional Job Responsibilities:\nServe on the Chemistry Department Safety Committee. \nSupervision Received and Exercised:\nThis position reports to the Department Chair of Chemistry and will hire, train, and supervise student assistants and will perform student worker evaluations.\nEducation/Experience/Skills:\nRequired:\nBachelor’s degree required with a minimum of 2 years college chemistry, including General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry.\nMinimum of 2 years of full-time professional, related experience working in a chemical laboratory setting required. Experience, or interest in, teaching students required.\nSupervisory and leadership skillsAbility to manage a hectic, demanding work environment with poise.\nAbility to take charge of urgent situations.\nAbility to analyze situations, use common sense, apply knowledge base, and make sound judgments to solve problems and develop creative solutions to issues.\nAbility to train, assign appropriate tasks to, supervise, and evaluate student workers.\nAbility to interact and negotiate productively with diverse stakeholders, including faculty, staff, and students\n\nKnowledge of and experience implementing good laboratory techniques.\nAbility to maintain a clean, safe work environment, and teach these practices to student workers.\nAbility to properly prepare a variety of reagents, including precise analytical standard reagents, and to properly work with a large variety of hazardous materials and assess/minimize risks associated with those materials.\nAbility to interpret and translate Safety Data Sheet (SDS) information into laboratory chemical safety information.\nUnderstanding of best practices related to chemical hygiene, and ability to coordinate with multiple stakeholders (faculty, lab manager, and CHO) to develop and implement best practices\nWorking knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet and image creation/manipulation software programs.\nAbility to work independently, work under pressure, prioritize tasks and meet deadlines, work cooperatively with others, and manage and direct concurrent multiple tasks.\nMust possess initiative, a strong work ethic, motivation, and have the desire to improve one’s work environment and the laboratory experience for students. Must have the desire to learn new skills and information, such as the operation and troubleshooting of sophisticated laboratory equipment, and demonstrate ability to utilize available structural and personnel resources to support new skills development.\nExcellent customer service and communication skills.\nPreferred:\nExperience working with and maintaining instrumentation relevant to chemistry laboratories\nPhysical Requirements:\nJob requires some repetitive lifting of average weight objects, an occasional requirement to lift heavy objects (50 lbs.).\nRequires the ability to maintain a standing position, up to 50%, for extended periods to perform job duties.\nWork involves exposure to potentially dangerous situations/chemicals, environmental issues that require a range of safety and other precautions.\nMust have the ability to understand and follow written and oral work instructions, operations, safety procedures, and hazardous labels.\nNote: This position description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.\nReview of applications begins immediately and continues until the hire is complete. We accept only online applications.\nCarleton College is an AA/EEO Employer: We are committed to developing our staff to better reflect the diversity of our student body and American society. Members of underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.\n Carleton also offers a robust suite of benefits including: A generous 403(b) retirement plan with a 10% employer contribution and 2% employee contribution. Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance. Paid time-off, including 25 annual leave days, 8 paid holidays, and extra days at the end of the calendar year to make a continuous week off before New Year’s. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for all employees. A dependent tuition program after six years of service.\nFounded in 1866, Carleton College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of roughly 2,000 students located in the historic river town of Northfield, Minnesota. Carleton College occupies more than 1,000 scenic acres of campus, arboretum, over 100 campus buildings, and athletic fields. 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