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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement. We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.
As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:
Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching
Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities
Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.
Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes
Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC
Job Posting Title:
Technician III (Hourly)Job Description Summary:
To provide complex lab and/or technical studio art classroom support services to faculty and students.Job Description:
Description of Duties and Tasks
Essential duties and responsibilities include the following.
Monitors the sculpture shop during or outside of regularly scheduled class hours.
Aids students in the completion of their assigned work during or outside of regularly scheduled class hours
Organizes, plans, and prioritizes laboratory activities for the designated area.
Performs clerical duties including operating a computer, maintaining records and files, and compiling data and reports as required.
Maintains an inventory of supplies and materials.
Collects data, records, and other information and submits reports as required.
Coordinates, operates, and monitors lab facilities and activities. Directs and organizes the preparation of lab materials, supplies, workstations, equipment, computers, and other media to ensure efficient lab operations.
Organizes, plans, and prioritizes the overall coordination of laboratory activities for designated area or areas; adapts and applies laboratory methods, practices, and techniques common to designated area. Directs or performs the preparation of student experience and demonstrations, performing routine and analytical work; pilots new labs to be considered. Implements new or modified laboratory policies and procedures.
Ensures safe laboratory conditions, including safe and secure handling and storage of supplies and equipment. Recommends, implements, and maintains safety standards and departmental policies and procedures to comply with federal, state, and local hazardous materials, health and safety, and hazardous waste regulations, and other applicable regulations.
Initiates purchase requisitions, controls expenditures, prepares cost estimates for budget recommendations, and submits justifications and requests for capital outlay items. Prepares specifications and analyzes bids for purchases.
Operates, installs, maintains, and troubleshoots equipment. Sets up, configures, and calibrates new equipment. Writes instructions and standard operating procedures for equipment operation. Performs routine maintenance and repair.
May assist students in the use of lab equipment and facilities.
May be assigned special projects or assignments based on the unique needs of the assigned lab.
May schedule, train, and monitor the work of lab assistants and other staff.
Additional Job-Specific Duties
Depending on the area of assignment, it may require Hazard Communications Training and additional safety training such as Lockout/Tagout and Stop the Bleed
Schedule and pick up shop-specific tools, consumables, or materials using the art department’s vehicle.
Schedule and maintain lab equipment at other campus locations per request.
Knowledge
Must possess required knowledge and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
Knowledge of specialized disciplines, depending on the area of assignment.
Wood Shop, Sculpture, technical policies and procedures.
Hazardous material/waste handling and disposal.
Wood Shop, Sculpture Shop, best practices, and safety procedures.
Skills
Must possess required skills and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, maintain a professional attitude with all students, faculty, staff, and visitors to the sculpture shop.
Effectively using interpersonal and communication skills, including the use of tact and diplomacy.
Maintaining an established work schedule.
Effectively using organizational and planning skills, including the use of attention to detail and follow-through.
Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
Understanding and following instructions precisely.
Handling lab materials precisely and accurately.
Can apply and understand the safe use and handling of woodworking tools, metalworking tools, power tools, and hand tools towards basic construction or sculpture-related tasks.
Ability to cast and create molds in a variety of mediums such as plaster, silicone, and sand (preferred).
Can repair or replace essential components on power tools and equipment, such as blades, belts, or bits.
Can determine if any equipment is in need of repair or replacement.
Can repair or replace equipment components using best practices and following repair procedures or can determine if equipment is beyond user repair capabilities. (preferred)
Ability to weld steel using MIG welder (preferred)
Ability to safely drive and operate a fleet van
Technology Skills
Well-versed in Google Suite and/or Google Suite equivalent software such as spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
Well-versed in Photoshop, Illustrator, and other Adobe Suite applications.
Required Work Experience
Two years related work experience.
Required Education
Associate degree.
Physical Requirements
Helps to maintain a safe, clean shop environment.
Ability to sweep, mop and clean shop surfaces.
Ability to load and unload a vehicle.
Work is performed in a variety of settings.
Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling, and at times subject to stooping, crawling, and climbing.
May need to lift heavy objects of up to 50 pounds and occasionally up to 100 pounds (with aid).
Safety
Work safely and follow safety rules. Report unsafe working conditions and behavior. Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.
Reports unsafe conditions to the shop lead, ai
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