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Keeps laboratory stock room and makes minor repairs and adjustments to laboratory equipment.

This is primarily manual work with responsibility for keeping the machines, apparatus, or other laboratory equipment, in working condition end for setting up such equipment for instructional, research, or testing purposes. The nature of the specific duties varies from laboratory to laboratory, though positions at this level are typically those of a "handy man" or those of a helper and understudy in preparation for skilled work. Close supervision is exercised over the work by a supervisor, or by a member of the instructional staff of a teaching institution, until the routine is learned and required skills developed.

Examples of duties characteristic of positions in this class:

1. Receives and accounts for chemicals or other supplies, tools or other laboratory equipment; may test certain items for standard performance, label or otherwise prepare them for use; keeps materials arranged on shelves for orderly distribution to laboratory students.
2. Issues laboratory equipment to students for performance of tests; ascertains that equipment so distributed is in working condition add that requests for equipment are appropriate for the uses to be made of such equipment.
3. Assists in the installation or overhauling of equipment used for laboratory demonstration, teaching machine shop practices, or making of tests and experiments.
4. Makes metal cabinets, stands, and mountings; makes minor repairs to laboratory machines, frequently dismantles, cleans, oils, and adjusts or replaces parts; makes minor repairs to electrical apparatus, radios, and electronic devices; maintains tool room, keeps tools in good condition, repairs such items as planers, shapers, drill presses, lathes and welding equipment.
5. Adapts, constructs, or improvises relatively simple devices or apparatus, such as water baths, water stills, hot plates, air pumps, gas burners, refrigerators, electric motors, and exhaust fans.

Completion of a standard high school course, preferably in vocational or manual training and at least two years of experience or its equivalent in training, which provided a working knowledge of related mechanical equipment and maintenance methods.

General knowledge of laboratory terms, apparatus, and equipment, mechanical ability; ability to follow instructions in detail.