Salary: $23.34 - $29.18 Hourly
Location : Durham, NC
Job Type: Adjunct Instructor (PT)
Job Number: 24-25-00056
Division: Academics and Guided Career Pathways
Department: Life Sciences
Opening Date: 01/10/2025
Closing Date: 3/31/2025 11:59 PM Eastern
FLSA: Non-Exempt
Description
Do Great Things! Durham Technical Community College is hiring a Laboratory Technician in the Life Sciences Department. The Laboratory Technician will work closely with the Life Sciences team to maintain laboratories and lab equipment for life sciences industry training courses. The Laboratory Technician will be responsible for inventorying, ordering, and storing supplies and materials and ensuring a safe laboratory environment for teaching and learning.
Examples of Duties

1. Ensure that all assigned life science laboratories are adequately arranged, supplied, and equipped for timely, safe and effective teaching and learning.
2. Ensure that consumable and non-consumable instructional supplies and equipment required for laboratory procedures are procured and available for timely instruction.
3. Coordinate the proper maintenance of laboratory equipment in assigned labs.
4. Maintain inventories and other documents and records as required.
5. Assembly of kits for at-home labs.

1. Collaborate with Life Sciences Laboratory Manager and Program Director to determine budget for laboratory expenses including small equipment and consumables.
2. Identify and source appropriate products for lab use, including obtaining multiple vendor quotes.
3. Enforce OSHA regulations for all Life Sciences laboratory classes and laboratory preparations.
4. Promote and adhere to all recognized safety practices and standards.
5. Maintain cleanliness and neatness of all lab areas, including prep areas.
6. Maintain SDS files and proper documentation.
7. Maintain proper disposal of all toxic and biohazard materials and maintenance of disposal records.
8. Assume responsibility for laboratory preparation, including minor maintenance and cleanup, and recommend, as necessary, appropriate laboratory supplies and equipment;

1. Provide support to faculty in the development and implementation of new equipment and technology.
2. Assist students and faculty with proper training on good laboratory practices.
3. Request work orders through college and vendors for room and equipment maintenance.
4. Maintain training and other professional development opportunities on- or off-campus and stay current with trends in Life Sciences.
5. Assume other necessary responsibilities and perform additional tasks as assigned in support of the college's goals and core values.
6. Must complete all mandatory work related and professional development training.

Minimum Qualifications
Associates Degree in the Biological Sciences or Biotechnology.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, or related subject preferred. Familiarity with the BioWork Certificate program, modern biotechnology including biomanufacturing, and OSHA standards as they apply to instructional environments.
Work Experience : Two years of successful laboratory experience at a college or in a Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) lab environment; experience in preparing bacteriological and cell culture media; experience assembling, cleaning, and maintaining lab equipment; performing inventory; experience with laboratory budgets preferred.
Supplemental Information

1. Thorough understanding of and commitment to the mission and philosophy of the North Carolina Community College System.
2. Demonstrated proficiency in the use of technology including Microsoft Office, learning management systems, e-mail, Internet, student information and library research databases.
3. Ability to use oral and written communication effectively and in a professional, diplomatic, empathetic, and tactful manner as applicable to the job.
4. Demonstrate skills necessary to look at situations and processes critically to make recommendations for improvement.

1. Ability to be organized, accurate, and punctual with paperwork and assigned tasks.
2. Ability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships throughout the college and community.
3. Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
4. Personal integrity, honesty, and the ability to maintain confidentiality.
5. Demonstrate professionalism in dealing with a diverse population while understanding and respecting each other's view of the world, personalities and working styles.
6. Familiarity with OSHA standards as they apply to instructional environments.
7. Knowledge of biomanufacturing, microbiology, aseptic processing, cell culture and/or analytical laboratory skills.
8. Familiarity and competency with standard wet chemistry techniques and the ability to interpret standard methodologies.
9. Willingness to learn and expand knowledge base.

Physical Demands :
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. The physical and mental demands described as follows are representative of those that must be met by an employee in performing the essential functions of this job:

• Ability to sit and/or stand for long periods of time
• Ability to move between classrooms, buildings, and campuses
• Ability to express or exchange ideas
• Ability to lift, at times, 30 lbs.
• Good eye/hand dexterity

Normal Working Hours :
A 20-hour work week as determined with the supervisor to allow the employee to fulfill the assigned duties and responsibilities, including occasional evening and weekend hours
This position is not eligible for benefits. For more information, please visit
01
Do you have an Associate's Degree (or Higher) in Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, or a related subject?

• Yes
• No

02
Which statement below best describes the highest level of education you have completed?

• Less than High School
• High school graduate, diploma or the equivalent (GED)
• Associate degree
• Bachelor's degree
• Master's degree
• Doctorate degree

03
Are you familiar with the BioWork Certificate program, modern biotechnology including biomanufacturing, and OSHA standards as they apply to instructional environments?

• Yes
• No

04
Do you have at least two years of successful laboratory experience at a college or in a Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) lab environment; experience in preparing bacteriological and cell culture media; experience assembling, cleaning, and maintaining lab equipment; performing inventory; or experience with laboratory budgets?

• Yes
• No

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