Lab Technician - Biology

Lab Technician - Biology

Salary:               $ 22.00 per hour based on a 35 hour work week
Benefits:            The University offers generous benefits including paid time off (holidays, holy days and vacation), employer matching contributions to the retirement plan, and tuition benefits for employees and their eligible dependents. Learn more and explore benefits at www.duq.edu/benefits
Location:                   Biology
Position Status:         Full-time (12 month, Grant funded)                                             
Hours:                       Varied
Position Number:      063123/30-517                
FLSA Status:             Non-exempt

POSITION SUMMARY:
The laboratory technician is responsible for general maintenance and organization of the lab. Will also carry out experiments related to NIH grants.

The lab technician should be organized, reliable, and able to work independently.

This is a grant funded position.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
General lab maintenance. Conduct lab chores and coordinate with work study student. Maintain lab inventories, order reagents, contact vendors and sales representatives, prepare and maintain stock solutions, plates, and other consumables. Maintain equipment and coordinate repairs and vendor maintenance.

General lab organization. Maintain biohazard SOP, maintain chemical inventory and waste removal, organize lab meeting schedule, maintain lab website, attend all lab meetings, coordinate undergraduate student schedules and training, maintain C. elegans stocks and other reagents
Help to purchase new equipment and computers for lab.

Positively represent the Maniates lab at departmental seminars, retreats, receptions, and other events.

Conduct experiments related to aims outlined in NIH grants, maintain an organized laboratory notebook, intellectually contribute to ongoing projects, help students with maintaining strains while attending conferences and during academic year as needed, generating C. elegans strains and plasmids.

Supervises student employees only.

Completes other duties as assigned.

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in biology, biochemistry, or related field from an accredited educational institution with 1-2 years of laboratory experience with molecular and cell biological techniques.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with C. elegans, gene cloning, microscopy, and PCR is preferred but not required.

Degree in study of Genetics, Cell Biology, Development

Alternatively, the successful candidate may possess any equivalent combination of experience and training, which provides the knowledge, skills and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:

Analytical, communication, initiative, technical skills, problem solving, collaboration and teamwork, supervision, adaptability.

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with the University Community.

Ability and willingness to contribute actively to the mission of the University and to respect the Spiritan Catholic identity of Duquesne University.  The mission is implemented through a commitment to academic excellence, a spirit of service, moral and spiritual values, sensitivity to world concerns, and an ecumenical campus community.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Applicants are asked to submit a cover letter, resume, and contact information for three professional references.

Duquesne University was founded in 1878 by its sponsoring religious community, the Congregation of the Holy Spirit.  Duquesne University is Catholic in mission and ecumenical in spirit.  Motivated by its Catholic identity, Duquesne values equality of opportunity both as an educational institution and as an employer.