Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Duties will include monitoring lab activities, providing phone coverage and walk-in support to users, maintaining equipment and supplies, assisting and setting up lab experiments for classes, providing evening support and lab monitoring. Additional tasks will be maintaining and developing lab documentation, equipment testing and inventory, and other tasks related to lab support. 

Student Engineering Lab Assistants are responsible for helping maintain a clean, quiet work area for students and faculty. This person needs to be a team player and have a flexible schedule. This position would report directly to the Senior Lab Manager and provide assistance when the manager is not available.

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Qualifications, Credentials, and Competencies

Minimum Qualifications:

The student must be a residential Liberty University student. Proficiency in Computer and Engineering Technology is required. Hours will vary; candidates must have the ability to work 18 hours per week. Candidates must be critical thinkers, technologically savvy and highly motivated team players. Must have and maintain a minimum of 2.5 overall GPA. Must also be able to lift a minimum of 50 lbs. All applicants must demonstrate a personal faith commitment to the University’s evangelical Christian purpose.

Preferred Qualifications:

Students in Computer Science, Engineering, BMIS, and the CSIT programs would be ideal candidates. Successful candidates will possess excellent oral and written communication skills, customer service skills, demonstrate computer proficiency, be team focused, and possess the abilities to both follow instructions and lead others, a Christ-like attitude, and the ability to function responsibly with minimum direct supervision.

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Pay Rate

Starting at $12.77

Student employees are paid at least the current Virginia minimum wage per hour. Pay may vary by position and department based on job responsibilities, required skills, available funding, and market conditions.

The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe it is our moral and legal obligation to meet the responsibility of ensuring that all management practices regarding employees are conducted in a nondiscriminatory manner. In compliance with Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and other applicable federal and state statutes, all recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including state of employment protected classes. It is, therefore, our policy and intention to evaluate all employees and prospective employees strictly according to the requirements of the job. All personnel related activities such as compensation, benefits, transfers, job classification, assignments, working conditions, educational assistance, terminations, layoffs, and return from layoffs, and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including all applicable state of employment protected classes. The University is a Christian religious-affiliated organization; and as such, is not subject to religious discrimination requirements. The University’s hiring practices and EEO discrimination practices are in full compliance with both federal and state law. Federal law creates an exception to the “religion” component of the employment discrimination laws for religious organizations (including educational institutions), and permits them to give employment practice preference to members of their own religious beliefs.