*Manages the Laboratory Stores, maintaining a focus on customer service and support, and ensuring performance of all tasks necessary for satisfactory operation of the facility.
*Hires, trains and supervises student store assistants, determining work schedules and assignments.
*Implements and maintains various inventory and chemical-management databases.
*Oversees other materials storage areas, including field equipment storage, lecture hall preparation and sixth floor storage rooms, ensuring that users comply with requirements for organization and cleanliness.
*Meets regularly with Director to discuss management issues, make recommendations for improvements and implement enhancements to operations.
*Manages ordering of all chemicals for the building, ensuring that quantity and type ordered fully meet the requirements of Middlebury's Chemical Hygiene Plan; confirms that Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) are received or already on file for each ordered chemical; logs received chemicals for tracking purposes.
*Maintains the building file on MSDS's, assisting users in locating information and preparing copies for faculty and students upon request.
*Provides training to faculty and staff on the provisions of the Chemical Hygiene Plan.
*Oversees day-to-day hazardous waste operations, including assisting in transporting hazardous wastes to storage facility; logs in wastes; conducts daily facility inspections; ensures that storage quantity and time limits are not exceeded; interacts with hazardous waste disposal contractors.
*Serves on the campus and building safety committees.
*Operates laboratory store, pricing stock and dispensing supply items, chemicals, cryogens and gases to faculty, staff and students. Prepares invoices for customer purchases.
*Ensures that adequate stocks of required supplies and equipment are maintained in inventory and that all procurement specifications are met, conducting inventories and preparing/placing orders as necessary.
*Consults periodically with faculty in an effort to determine the most beneficial selection of items to maintain in stock.
*Maintains the stores catalog file and provides ready access to the store's chemical and apparatus databases, assisting users in selecting and obtaining desired items.
*Ensures that all shipments to the building are properly received, checked in and delivered to recipients, resolving problems with vendors as necessary.
*Facilitates unloading of deliveries.
*Oversees materials management within the building, supervising work by student staff and outside moving contractors, and coordinating with Facilities Management personnel.
*Maintains accurate records of orders and received shipments, preparing related paperwork for Purchasing Department.
*Organizes stores to maximize usability, efficiency, and appearance.
*Ensures that all stores facilities and related storage areas are kept clean and free from spills, obstacles and other hazards, and that required safety standards are met.
*Ensures that chemicals and cylinder gases are properly segregated and stored by hazard class.
*Conducts periodic inventories of gas cylinders throughout the building.
*Ensures that building first-aid and spill cleanup kits are restocked as necessary.
*Prepares outgoing shipments, ensuring that all hazardous shipments are labeled in accordance with DOT requirements.
*Works as a team member with other STSS staff on projects in support of College teaching and research needs.
Assists in the care of mammals, plants, invertebrates, and other organisms.