Job Description:

• 1) Cleans laboratory equipment, such as glassware, metal instruments, sinks, tables, and test panels, using solvents, brushes, and rags: Mixes water and detergents or acids in container to prepare cleaning solution according to specifications.

• 2) Washes, rinses, and dries glassware and instruments, using water, acetone bath, and cloth or hot-air drier.

• 3) Scrubs walls, floors, shelves, tables, and sinks, using cleaning solution and brush.

• 4) May sterilize glassware and instruments, using autoclave.

• 5) May fill tubes and bottles with specified solutions and apply identification labels.

• 6) May label and file microscope slides.

• 7) May arrange specimens and samples on trays to be placed in incubators and refrigerators.

• 8) May deliver supplies and laboratory specimens to designated work areas, using handtruck.

• 9) May tend still that supplies laboratory with distilled water.

• 10) May be designated Glass Washer, Laboratory when cleaning glassware.

• 11) May maintain inventory reports and logs.