Laboratory Associate

• Documents emergency responses when necessary and ensures compliance with the nationally accepted standards of clean room operations and cleanroom best practices, as well as maintaining the overall cleanliness of laboratories.
• Oversee inventory, purchasing, and storage of supplies, reagents, and specimens.
• Supervises students who come to the lab to develop skills.
• Ensure proper use, maintenance, and repairs of lab equipment and instruments.
• Completes eye wash station checks, chem waste disposal center, and lab room inspection logs
• Identifies, manages, and maintains equipment purchases.
• Processes bids and purchasing orders for equipment, supplies, reagents, and media.
• Coordinates and manages laboratory space for teaching and research purposes.
• Enforce and train students and staff on biological and chemical safety practices following OSHA, CFR, and other institutional guidelines.
• Manage the disposal of hazardous biological and chemical waste in collaboration with safety officers.

• Assist core faculty with course preparation, including copying, grading, and proctoring exams.
• Manage course materials on Blackboard and other learning platforms.
• Oversee teaching assistants as they support lab instructional goals
• Contribute to curricular innovation by serving as a safety expert when faculty propose new lab experiments.
• Maintain annual laboratory budget and produce annual reports.

• Serve on the Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Med Admissions Committee.
• Participate in faculty and staff meetings and professional development activities.
• Assist with student recruitment and outreach efforts.
• Performs other related duties as assigned. The omission of specific duties does not preclude the supervisor from assigning duties that are logically related to the position

• A master's degree in Biology, Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, or a related field is preferred, and having completed laboratory-based courses in anatomy and physiology, biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, and physics is highly desired.
• Familiarity with laboratory equipment such as virtual dissection platforms (e.g., Anatomage), NMR machines is preferred.
• Experience managing educational labs and developing laboratory materials for basic sciences courses, such as biology, chemistry, and physics, is desired.
• Certification in laboratory safety or hazardous materials handling is preferred.

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