Position Type:
Full-Time
Class Category
Classified Staff
Job Open Date
04/28/2025
Job Close Date
05/12/2025
Open Until Filled
No
Initial Screen Date:
05/15/2025
Minimal Qualifications:
- Associate's degree related to the assigned program.
- One (1) year related experience of assigned program or laboratory support.
- Minimum Qualification can be substituted with an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job.
Preferred qualifications:
Preference will be given to individuals who possess:
- Evidence of Electrical/Electronic formal training.
- Experience working in an educational or training related setting.
- Industry experience requiring installing and/or troubleshooting electrical/electronic systems.
- Ability to adjust work schedule to meet INTE class demands and support.
Work Hours
Normally scheduled Monday through Friday; however, may be required to work other shifts to include evenings and/or weekends. Schedule subject to change based upon department needs.
Compensation
Starting pay is $35,810 to $37,959 annually. Competitive benefit package is included.
Special Instructions to Applicants
PLEASE NOTE:
- Cover letter, resume, and transcripts are required and must be attached to the online application in order to receive any consideration.
- Interviews will be conducted by a hiring committee.
Metropolitan Community College is the oldest and largest public institution of higher learning in Kansas City, Mo. MCC currently offers over 120 associate degree and certificate programs; on campus, online or a combination of both. MCC employees are committed to providing equal opportunity for all persons regardless of age, creed, race or gender.
We offer all full-time employees medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans, as well as retirement, 403b, employee assistance, and flexible spending and health savings account. We have a generous time-off policy including vacation, sick/personal days, holidays, and paid spring and winter break. We can't wait to show you why Metropolitan Community College is a great place to work!
Metropolitan Community College is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. *EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled
Class Summary
Incumbents assist instructors, staff, faculty and students in the lab of an assigned program, and coordinate laboratory experiments and activities.
Major duties and responsibilities include: preparing, disposing, storing, cleaning, and maintaining equipment, instruments, materials, models, slides, and specimens necessary for laboratory experiments and activities; ensuring compliance with experimental protocols; providing trainings and guidance to lower level staff and student workers.
Typical Essential Duties
- Prepares, sets up, disposes, stores, procures, cleans, and/or maintains equipment, instruments, chemicals, materials, models, slides, specimens, and/or software necessary for laboratory experiments and activities; work may also involve fabricating tools.
- Ensures that all operations are performed in compliance with experimental and demonstration protocols, safety procedures, chemical handling and collection guidelines, and other applicable laws, guidelines, policies, and regulations; work may involve reviewing new experimental protocols or lab manuals to ensure safety procedures are followed.
- Provides training and guidance to lower-level staff and student workers; work involves prioritizing and assigning work, and ensuring that work is performed in accordance with applicable policies and procedures.
- Coordinates assigned and routine laboratory activities, to include preparing laboratory schedules; proctoring exams when needed; monitoring student safety; conducting trainings for students on assigned laboratory tools, equipment, and operations; conducting student tours and demos; responding to laboratory-related inquiries via phone or in person; and coordinating requests for equipment and supplies.
- Prepares and submits purchase requisitions to appropriate departments or personnel; work may involve updating vendors on order status, compiling bid specification information, and making recommendations for equipment maintenance and purchase.
- Maintains laboratory inventory, to include ordering and maintaining supplies, equipment, chemicals, specimens, instruments, and other materials; checking out tools, supplies, and equipment to faculty or students; storing samples and specimens; researching information regarding applicable supplies and materials; and maintaining purchase receipts, logs, and other documentation.
- Assists with developing the departmental budget, to include assessing departmental needs and monitoring expenditures.
- Prepares, maintains, and/or distributes billing, protocol, chemical usage, inventory logs, curriculum, and other reports, lists, records, manuals, and other documentation; work may involve researching and compiling information, and ensuring information accuracy.
- Performs other duties of a similar nature or level.
- This job description is intended to represent only the key areas of responsibilities; specific position assignments will vary depending on the business needs of the department.
Knowledge
- Knowledge of laboratory equipment, materials, and activities in assigned area of operation
- Knowledge of computers and related software application
- Knowledge of inventory management principles
- Knowledge of teaching principles and practices
- Knowledge of chemical solutions
- Knowledge of sterilization techniques
Skills
- Skilled in providing teaching assistance
- Skilled in using a computer and related software applications
- Skilled in managing an inventory
- Skilled in preparing chemical solutions
- Skilled in sterilizing tools and glassware
- Skilled in performing minor repairs on and maintaining lab equipment
- Skilled in utilizing communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the general public, and others sufficient to exchange or convey information
Positions Supervised
No staffing table positions.
Physical Requirements
Positions in this class typically require balancing, climbing, feeling, grasping, hearing, keyboarding, pulling, pushing, reaching, repetitive motion, standing, stooping, talking, visual acuity, and walking.
The work is very heavy work which requires exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Incumbents may be exposed to hazardous physical conditions, such as mechanical parts, electrical currents, and vibrations; atmospheric conditions, such as fumes, odors, gases, and poor ventilation; hazardous materials, such as chemicals, blood, and other bodily fluids; extreme temperatures; inadequate lighting; and intense noise.
Licensing Requirements
None.
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Metropolitan Community College
life insurance, 403(b)
Apr 28, 2025