C&T Generic Job Description

Laboratory Assistant I

Grade of A

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.

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Job Code 603: --- Date: 02/89

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Yale University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 603 Laboratory Assistant I Grade A

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.