Laboratory Assistant I Grade A

    Clerical and Technical generic job description

    Job Family: Research/Support 
    Job Code: 603

    Representative duties:

    • Washes and sterilizes glassware and equipment.  Distributes and stocks glassware and supplies
    • Sets up, operates and maintains standard laboratory equipment
    • Maintains work area and cleanliness of laboratory.  Dispose of broken glassware
    • May prepare routine chemical solutions used in cleaning and sterilizing glassware
    • May order supplies
    • Performs additional functions incidental to laboratory activities

    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.

    Required knowledge:

    • General knowledge, high school level

    Required skills:

    • Understands short notes, basic written instructions, and forms
    • Occasional use of machine that requires little training to operate
    • Performs one or more simple, prescribed tasks

    Office and administrative skills:

    • Refers callers and visitors to the appropriate individual

    Experience, education and formal Training:

    • Little or no work experience and a high school level education, or an equivalent combination of experience and education

    Complexity and organization:

    • Job tasks composed of routine steps/processes

    Interpersonal relations:

    • Little or no involvement outside immediate work unit
    • Offers basic information or provides assistance on general matters
    • Understands and conveys simple messages and instructions verbally

    Supervisory guidelines:

    • Work is subject to general review on an occasional basis
    • Incumbent plans and schedules own work and/or the work of others based on the understanding of broadly defined objectives and priorities, supervisor reviews work after completion
    • Instruction provided only in new situations, methods, procedures that are not clearly related to existing tasks and duties

    Independent judgment:

    • Established procedures/policies govern most work situations
    • Little opportunity to exercise independent judgment or initiative

    Leadership responsibility:

    • Not applicable

    Impact and consequence of error:

    • Work affects outside immediate work unit
    • Errors are not difficult to recognize and correct and only affect own work

    Working conditions:

    • Occasional possibility of safety risks
    • Stable and predictable
    • Some sustained concentration
    • Some physical effort or dexterity