Laboratory Technician

**Date**:Jul 21, 2025 **Location**: Waterloo, CA **Company**:Wilfrid Laurier University **Department**: Faculty of Science **Job Type**: Continuing **Full-time/Part-time**: Full Time (>=1249 hrs/year) **Campus**: Waterloo **Reports to**:Manager of Teaching Labs, Biology **Employee Group**: WLUSA **Application Deadline**:July 28, 2025 **Requisition ID**:10004 Wilfrid Laurier University is a leading multi-campus university that excels at educating with purpose. Through its exceptional employees, students, researchers, leaders, and educators, Laurier has built a reputation as a world-class institution known for its rich student experience, academic excellence, and global impact. With a commitment to Indigenization and commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, Laurier’s thriving community has a place for everyone. Laurier has more than 21,000 students and 2,100 faculty and staff across campuses in Waterloo and Brantford, as well locations in Kitchener and Milton. The university is committed to providing an inclusive workplace, a flexible work policy and employing a workforce that is reflective of local and national demographics. Laurier's Waterloo, Kitchener, and Brantford campuses are located on the shared traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples. This land is part of the Dish with One Spoon Treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples and symbolizes the agreement to share, protect our resources, and not to engage in conflict. Laurier's Milton campus is located on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, and part of the Nanfan Treaty of 1701 between the British Crown and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. **Position Summary**: At Laurier, we are a community. It’s what brings our students here and what keeps our people here. As an educational institution, we inspire lives of leadership and purpose in our student community. As an employer, we seek, foster and value the same qualities of leadership and purpose in our employee community. We currently have an opportunity to join the Laurier community as a Laboratory Technician for the Department of Biology. This position reports to the Manager of Teaching Labs, Biology and works in collaboration with the Laboratory Coordinator/Technicians for the Department of Biology. The incumbent is responsible for the maintenance of equipment and materials in support of all teaching laboratories fulfilling the parameters and learning objectives of undergraduate biology courses. This responsibility involves assisting the Lab Coordinator/Technicians in carrying out the teaching goals of Biology and Water Science courses, assisting with the testing and maintenance of appropriate protocols and materials. The position requires a high level of laboratory competence to work independently and maintain a safe working environment. Care, maintenance and repair of all equipment and materials used in the design of each lab is a key responsibility of this position. Given the breadth of the lab curriculum, the incumbent requires a diverse understanding of organisms, biological processes and techniques. **Accountabilities**: **Lab Preparation and Management**: - Works with (bio)hazardous equipment, chemicals, reagents, organisms, biological samples and procedures ensuring that all participants are able to conduct work safely; - Assists with preparation of chemicals, buffers, reagents and other supplies for teaching labs, and assists with setting up lab exercises/experiments; - Tears down and cleans up completed labs, including maintenance/repair of equipment, (bio)hazardous and chemical waste disposal; - Cleans and maintains lab spaces including communicating with Physical Resources regarding necessary infrastructure repairs (e.g. plumbing, electrical, etc.); - Decontaminates and disposes of sharps and (bio)hazardous waste; - Maintains PPE, spill kits, showers/eye wash stations, and first aid kits; - Assists with the maintenance and storage of equipment, tools, instrumentation, chemicals and other reagents and supplies according to regulations; - Assists in the sourcing of animals, bacteria, plants, equipment, reagents, supplies and other resources as required for lab experiments; - Participates in the field collection of required specimens and other materials as needed; **Administrative Duties and Lab Delivery Support**: - Completes daily/weekly tasks to ensure that labs are prepared and ready to run according to schedule; - On occasion, provides support to Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs), undergraduate Instructional Assistants (IAs), and undergraduate students as they prepare for and actively deliver and participate in lab and tutorial exercises/experiments; - Provides technical support for instrumentation and protocols to GTAs, IAs and course instructors; - Available as a resource for students’ questions outside of lab hours, e.g. when students need to make observations outside of regularly scheduled lab