Job Description
Job Description Performs routine preventative maintenance, repairs on laboratory systems, equipment and testing instruments as scheduled and as required. Ensure that the training systems, equipment, tools and testing instruments are in safe operating condition. Provide technical support and assist students while performing their laboratory assignments.
- Under the direction of the Department Chair/coordinator, assists the full-time laboratory technician in maintaining the program equipment, tools, testing instruments, and supplies.
- Identify safety hazards, equipment malfunctions, damaged tools and testing instruments, and perform equipment repairs as assigned.
- Ensure that all equipment and tools are secure, functional, and safe to use or operate.
- Ensure that inventory supplies and materials are available in the laboratories daily.
- Assist faculty in setting up laboratory systems, equipment and trainers for students to perform their hands-on assignments as scheduled.
- Monitor students while they perform their laboratory assignments and ensure they are following proper safety protocols.
- Communicate and share information with the program coordinator and full-time laboratory technician to address potential hazards and resolve problems or issues that arise.
- Participate in program workshops, information sessions, recruitment and special events.
- Performs clerical assignments, such as, making copies, filing documents, maintaining records, assisting with reports, course revisions, and other duties as assigned by department chair/coordinator.
Qualifications Minimum Acceptable Qualifications: Education: High School diploma or equivalent required with college level technical training certifications and industry-based certifications, or Associate in Applied Science in Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration. Must be EPA certified to properly handle refrigerant.
Experience: 2 years' technical experience maintaining and repairing various types of mechanical and electrical HVACR equipment and customer service support required. Must have basic knowledge of Microsoft software such as Word and Excel. Knowledge of Building Automation Systems software plus preferred. Ability to work independently and must have excellent customer service and communications skills (oral & written).
About Us We are Harper College...the college in your community.
The College was established by referendum in 1965 and opened September 1967. It is named for Dr. William Rainey Harper, a pioneer in the junior college movement in the United States and the first president of the University of Chicago.
Harper College is now one of the nation's premier community colleges and one of the largest, serving approximately 29,000 students annually in Chicago's northwest suburbs. The College's academic programs prepare students for rewarding careers and for transfer to four-year universities. Harper offers associate degree and certification programs, advanced career programs, workforce training, professional development, continuing education classes, accelerated degree options for adults and developmental education programs.
About the Team The Career and Technical Programs provide programs of study that involve a multiyear sequence of courses that integrate core academic knowledge with technical and occupational knowledge to provide students with a pathway to postsecondary education and careers.
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