• Job Description

  Req#: 510905

  Department Overview:	Department of Chemistry
  Anticipated Start Date:	January 12, 2026 - January 26, 2026
  Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):	May 2, 2026
  Remote Work Eligibility Detail:	Not Remote
  Anticipated Hours Per Week:	Minimum: 4 Maximum: 20
  Schedule:	Shifts vary by stockroom and are structured around the class lab schedule. Students typically work multiple shifts to get their desired number of work hours. Typical shifts range from 2 to 4, with the possibility for longer shifts based on availability. Some shifts start as early as 7:15 AM and some go as late as 9:45 PM. Stockroom managers work with students to assign only the shifts that work with the students' schedules.
  Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:	Minimum: $12.50 Maximum:
  Number of Positions:	30+, depending on the availability of applicants.
  Qualifications:	Applicants must be current UW-Madison students enrolled during each semester of employment. Undergraduate students majoring in chemistry, biochemistry, and/or chemical engineering are preferred, but students with different majors and backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Strong preference will be given to applicants will have completed one or more chemistry courses at UW-Madison.
  Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:	Successful applicants will have an interest in chemistry, especially in learning the more technical side of what makes a lab run smoothly and safely. Successful candidates will be able to work well alone or in a small team, and will communicate with other student workers and staff supervisors to develop proactive and reactive solutions to problems encountered in the lab space. Successful candidates will demonstrate professionalism and a willingness to learn on the fly as the semester develops.
  Position Summary/Job Duties:	Stockroom assistants will be responsible for ensuring student labs run without incident. This may include changing lab materials between lab periods, distributing laboratory equipment, refilling and replacing laboratory reagents and solutions, and serving as a first point of contact for students, LAs, and TAs. Stockroom assistants will also be responsible for maintaining the cleanliness and chemical hygiene of the lab spaces. This may include sweeping and cleaning laboratory spaces between labs, washing glassware, and performing basic maintenance on lab equipment. Depending on experience, assistants will be able to gain experience preparing solutions and reagents in large quantities. They may be called upon to perform experiments for testing purposes, as well. Some assistants may, in the morning and evening, have additional responsibilities to open and close access to the lab space.
  Physical Demands:	Standing for periods of time (~ 1 hour), completing repetitive tasks, occasionally helping lift or move objects weighing up to 50 lbs.
  Institutional Statements:	Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce. Institutional Statement on Diversity: Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals. The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world. For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu Accommodation Statement: If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/

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