Technician, Science Lab

Austin Community College; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 53,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Austin Community College is seeking a Technician for the Science Lab to prepare, set up, and issue materials for demonstrations, experiments, and exams. You will assist in maintaining instructional labs and help develop laboratory exercises alongside instructors.

Responsibilities include inventorying chemicals, ensuring SDS availability, maintaining equipment, and enforcing safety policies in coordination with ACC EHS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; substitutions allowed with related work experience.
• Two years related work experience.
• Knowledge of lab safety and hazard regulations.
• CPR/First Aid certifications are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, assist in developing, perform set-up and clean-up of instructional labs; assist faculty during labs.
• Maintain inventory of chemicals and SDSs; ensure compliance with regulations.
• Maintain and calibrate lab equipment; assist with repairs or services as needed.
• Ensure lab safety and respond to emergencies; follow health and safety procedures.

Skills

Lab safety

Budgeting

Vendor coordination

Communication

Equipment troubleshooting

Inventory management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

MS Office

Lab software

Calibration tools

Job description

Technician, Science Lab

Austin Community College

Austin Community College employees are required to maintain adomicile in the State of Texas while working for the college andthroughout the duration of employment. - AR 4.0300.01

Austin Community College is a public two-year institution thatserves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 creditstudents each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity asa community college, as reflected in our mission statement. Wepromote student success and community development by providingaffordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes,to higher education and workforce training, including appropriateapplied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruitand retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching
• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitableaccess to educational opportunities
• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies tofacilitate success for populations including; first generationcollege students, low-income students, and students fromunderserved communities
• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduateoutcomes
• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction withothers
• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Description Summary

To prepare, set-up and issue materials and equipment for use instudent laboratory demonstrations, experiments, exercises andexams; assists in the operation and maintenance of instructionallabs; participates in the planning and implement of lab exercisesand experiments; assists instructors with thedevelopment/improvement of laboratory exercises.

Job Description

Description of Duties and Tasks

• Prepare, assist in developing, perform set-up and clean-up ofinstructional labs; may include assisting the faculty and studentsduring lab experiments, exercises and exams.*
• Performs annual inventory of all lab chemicals and maintainscurrent list of stored chemicals for labs in accordance with local,state, and federal regulations; provides SDSs information for eachinstructional lab demonstration, experience, exercise andexam.
• Maintains a working knowledge of a variety of laboratoryequipment and demonstrates the safe and proper use/disposal of equipment including hazardous or biohazardous materials.
• Prepares, tests, adjusts, modifies, performs routine maintenance on, calibrates a variety of technical laboratoryequipment, trouble-shoots equipment and makes minor repairs and/orarranges for service repair.
• Ensures lab safety and respond to laboratory emergencies.Maintain working knowledge of health and safetyprocedures/regulations including but not limited to first aid andCPR.
• Purchases lab and office supplies; track supply budget; obtainapprovals for purchases following established department andcollege processes.
• Collaborates with faculty and supervisors on the development oflab schedules, procedures, and documents lab procedures.
• Ensures EHS compliance in the laboratory through properlabeling and storage of equipment and hazardous materials.
• Partners with ACC EHS Department to ensure policies andprocedures are followed for safe handling of hazardous andbiohazardous materials.
• May oversee the work of hourly employees.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of laboratory safety practices.
• Knowledge of Hazardous Waste storage and disposalregulations.
• Knowledge of discipline related technical equipment.
• Knowledge of basic discipline related equipment technicalsupport.
• Knowledge of instructional lab best practices.
• Safely handling, using, storing, sterilizing, and disposing ofhazardous materials and/or infectious agents.
• Basic administrative procedures and practices includinginventory, basic budgeting, purchasing, vendor contacts forsupplies and repairs.

Skills

• Maintains a regular, consistent work schedule.
• Ability to provide technical support including 1st linetroubleshooting, maintenance coordination and requests to vendorsfor repairs and replacement of discipline related equipment.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a multiculturalpopulation including faculty, staff, students and externalparties.
• Planning annual needs, requisitioning, receiving storing,inventorying, storing and issuing laboratory materials, suppliesand equipment.
• Maintaining basic budget records.
• Problem solving and analysis to improve laboratory success andstudent learning.

Technology Skills

• Ability to use a variety of word processing, spreadsheet,presentation software
• Ability to setup, use, and maintain related laboratory softwareapplications.
• Ability to perform 1st line technical support of disciplinerelated equipment, including both hardware and software.

Required Work Experience

• Two years related work experience.

Preferred Work Experience

• Work experience in an instructional lab setting.

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree.

Four years of related work experience may substitute for thiseducation requirement. Applicants who substitute work experience tomeet the education requirement must use additional related work experience to meet the years of "Required Work Experience" for this position. Please note that the college reserves the right to amendthese terms of substitution at any time.

Preferred Education

• Bachelor's degree or higher in discipline area.

Special Requirements

• Current CPR Certification.
• Current First Aid Certification.
• Valid Texas Driver's License and reliable transportation forassignment at multiple locations and/or for attending meetings ortrainings at various ACC campuses.

Physical Requirements

• Work is performed in a classroom lab and prep setting and mayinclude field work.
• Depending on assignment, may have frequent contact withhazardous chemicals and waste.
• Must be able to lift objects up to 30 lbs.
• Ability to stand, kneel, sit and reach.
• Hand/finger dexterity to perform the essential functions,including use of keyboard.
• Visual ability to perform essential functions.

Safety

• Work safely and follow safety rules. Report unsafe workingconditions and behavior. Take reasonable and prudent actions toprevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.

Salary Range (PG 05)

$53,029 - $65,683

Number of Openings

1

Job Posting Close Date

September 7, 2026

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the JeanneClery Campus Safety Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting. Austin Community College produces an Annual Security Report as required by the Clery Act. This report includes statistics from the previous three years concerning reported crime that occurred on campus; public property adjacent to and accessible from campus; and in certain non-campus buildings/property owned or controlled by ACC. The report includes institutional policies concerning campus security and other safety information. For direct access to the current Annual Security Report, visit www.austincc.edu/asr . You may obtain a hard copy by contacting the Clery Compliance Officer ([e-mail] ). For an overview, see ACC's Clery Act website.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.