Performs routine maintenance of laboratory equipment. Trains new analysts and industry personnel. Performs related duties as required. Exposure to toxic or noxious fumes, caustic chemicals, and a variety of bacterial organisms can be expected. Manual dexterity is needed in handling equipment, reagents and samples.
Normal vision is needed to accurately observe test results.
The need to test a large number of samples with a high degree of precision may be stressful. Due to the fixed incubation periods in bacteriological tests, some evening or weekend work may be required. Evaluations and training at outside laboratories require private means of transportation. Three years of experience performing laboratory procedures in a professional microbiological laboratory. Graduate work in microbiology or a closely related field may be substituted for up to two years of the experience on a semester for six months basis.