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Supervises and performs equipment repair and construction activities of one or more research, materials testing, or instructional 1aboratories.

The duties involve responsibility for fabricating, mounting, and maintaining a wide variety of machines, tools, and measuring devices in an engineering laboratory, such as chemical, mechanical, electrical, or civil engineering. In some instances the work also involves supervision and training of assistant workers and student helpers. Assignments are generally made by the head of the laboratory in terms of the end objective with delegated responsibility for working out the details and devising the instrument, tools, apparatus or equipment that will accomplish the objective. When the assignment entails constructing new equipment or devices, a drawing or rough sketch is generally available. Duties requiring skill in the use of lathes, drills and presses, welding equipment, and related machine or shop tools are performed independently.

Examples of duties characteristic of positions in this class:

1. Supervises and performs a wide variety of installation, repair, and renovation work in a departmental shop or laboratory; serves as chief technician to assure instructional staff that all machines and tools needed for an instructional or demonstration period are in good working condition and ready for use when needed.
2. Disassembles, cleans, replaces worn parts, machining new parts as required on a variety of machines, motors, add pieces of heavy equipment; assembles and adjusts a variety of laboratory equipment, including suck items as, electric motors, internal combustion engines, centrifuges, thermostats, and precision type measurement or testing devices.
3. Supervises laboratory machine shop work in the repair of a wide variety of laboratory equipment; constructs new equipment for special laboratory projects; manufactures replacement parts which require journeyman level skill in machine shop practices or precision work.
4. In some instances serves as laboratory instructor, training students in the care, maintenance, and operation of machines, tools, and laboratory equipment; may teach fundamentals of machine construction and use, such as welding equipment, lathes, drills, presses, and various types of motors.
5. Repairs, adapts, and constructs equipment for testing a variety of materials used in rood building, maintenance, and surface testing, including transits and surveying instruments.

Completion of a standard high school course, including OI' supplemented by specialized or apprenticeship training sufficient to develop journeyman-level skills utilized in the shop or departmental laboratory to which assigned and three years’ experience at the journeyman-level in mechanical or electrical work related to the position. Additional technical education in related fields may be substituted for the experience requirement or qualifying experience may be substituted for the education requirement on an equivalent time basis.

Considerable knowledge of the basic principles of chemistry and physics and of laboratory equipment used in these sciences, considerable knowledge of the construction of measuring devices for electricity; ability to repair and construct a wide variety of laboratory equipment.