"Biosafety Certifier Assistant (Health Safety Environment)"

Job Details

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.

The Department of Health, Safety and Environment is seeking a Biosafety Certifier Assistant which is an introductory position for individuals with mechanical skills who are interested in learning how to maintain HEPA filter equipment. We will teach you how to become a biosafety cabinet certifier and send you to courses and meetings in support of this career choice as well as pay for your certification by NSF.

This position facilitates maintenance and certification programs for biosafety cabinets, laminar air flow cabinets, and portable HEPA filters as part of the functions of the Biosafety Office. Assists with biosafety-related matters as stipulated by the Biosafety Officer.Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Assists with the certification, repair, decontamination, and moving of hospital and university laminar air flow equipment, including biological safety cabinets, clean air benches, and other HEPA filter equipment.
• Files maintenance and certification reports in a prompt fashion.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Internal contacts include support staff and research staff, faculty, and students.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or graduation equivalent.
• Industrial hygiene, laboratory, or safety-related experience is beneficial, but not required.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond HS Diploma/Graduation Equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Special Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Must be experienced and competent with using hand tools.
• Must have some mechanical repair experience either professional or personal.
• Computer skills, filing skills, telephone skills.
• Must be physically able to wear personal protective equipment, especially respiratory protection during performance of job duties.
• Must be physically able to transport wheeled equipment weighing up to approximately 350 pounds.
• Must be available for emergency response.

Machines/Equipment Used

• Biological safety cabinets, clean air benches, related test equipment, bag-in-bag-out HEPA filter units, portable HEPA filter units, PAPRs, biological air sampling equipment, hand tools, transport dollies, and personal computer.

Preferred Qualifications

Classified Title: Biosafety Certifier Assistant
Role/Level/Range: ATO 37.5/02/OD
Starting Salary Range: $16.20 - $28.80 HRLY (Commensurate w/exp.)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: M/F 8:30AM - 5:00PM
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Location: School of Medicine Campus
Department name: ​​​​​​​Environmental Safety
Personnel area: University Administration

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.

If you are interested in applying for employment with The Johns Hopkins University and require special assistance or accommodation during any part of the pre-employment process, please contact the HR Business Services Office at jhurecruitment@jhu.edu. For TTY users, call via Maryland Relay or dial 711.

The following additional provisions may apply depending on which campus you will work. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.

During the Influenza ("the flu") season, as a condition of employment, The Johns Hopkins Institutions require all employees who provide ongoing services to patients or work in patient care or clinical care areas to have an annual influenza vaccination or possess an approved medical or religious exception. Failure to meet this requirement may result in termination of employment.

The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.

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