C&T Generic Job Description
Accelerator Operator
Grade B
Representative Duties:
- Operates accelerator. Monitors, maintains, repairs, and adjusts equipment.
- Observes accelerator operation and make standard adjustments.
- Identifies equipment malfunctions. Assists with diagnosis and correction of malfunction.
- Provides information on accelerator equipment operation.
- Performs additional functions incidental to accelerator activities.
Family: Technical Support
Job Code: 725 Date: 2/89
The job duties listed above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary from incumbent to incumbent in the job title.
Yale University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 725 Accelerator Operator Grade B
Required Knowledge:
- General knowledge, high school level; detailed but narrow work-related knowledge in one or several work-related areas; general acquaintance with broader fields of knowledge.
- Working knowledge of craft or trade.
- Limited acquaintance with University organizational policies and procedures.
Required Skills:
- Copies data from standard or easily understandable formats.
- Understands more complicated written instructions, memoranda and policy statements.
- Writes short, informal notes, fills out simple forms.
- Regular skilled use of complex machines; responsibility for troubleshooting and maintenance necessary to ensure consistent operation at a high quality level; and/or sophisticated manipulation of a database.
Office and Administrative Skills:
- Not applicable.
Experience, Education and Formal Training:
- Two years of related work experience and a high school level education, or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
Complexity and Organization:
- Wide variety of complicated job tasks requiring coordinating numerous processes/methods.
Interpersonal Relations:
- Some involvement outside immediate work unit.
- Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on general matters.
- Understands and conveys simple messages and instructions and takes action accordingly.
Supervisory Guidelines:
- Work is closely reviewed for adequacy and accuracy daily.
- Supervisor always plans, assigns, and schedules work and defines objectives clearly.
- Instruction provided in all new situations, methods, and procedures that are not clearly related to existing tasks and duties.
Independent Judgment:
- Established procedures/policies govern many work situations.
- Occasional exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
- Problems solved by choosing solutions from among several alternatives that are not necessarily governed by established procedures.
Leadership Responsibility:
- Occasionally provides general orientation to routine procedures/policies.
Impact and Consequence of Error:
- Work affects both outside the work unit and outside the University.
- Errors are somewhat difficult to recognize and correct and can cause considerable harm or financial loss to individuals, departments, and the University or to other individuals and groups.
Working Conditions:
- Ongoing possibility of safety risks.
- Regular multiple or conflicting demands, deadlines, emergencies, or time pressures.
- Some sustained concentration.
- Considerable physical effort or a high degree of fine finger or hand dexterity.
