Staff Laboratory Assistant III (Full-Time, Temporary)
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Job overview
The Staff Laboratory Assistant III supports grant-funded research, field surveys, environmental sampling, laboratory activities, specimen processing, data collection, and education and outreach programs. The role works on projects involving invasive plant pests, agricultural commodities, biological specimens, and environmental monitoring. It is a full-time, temporary, benefits-eligible position expected to end on or before August 31, 2027, contingent on continued funding.
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Full job description
Requisition: 202600356S
Occupational Category (Staff Positions Only): Service Maintenance
Hiring Salary: Monthly-Staff
Department: TRIES
General Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in biology, environmental science, forensic science, or a related field. Master’s degree in biology, environmental science, forensic science, or a related field is preferred. One year of experience in field biology, biological or environmental surveys, laboratory work, or a related area is required. A combination of education, experience, and training that would produce the required knowledge and abilities could be considered.
Nature & Purpose of Position/Usual Duties:
Performs under supervision a wide variety of routine and technical tasks in support of grant-funded research, field surveys, environmental sampling, laboratory activities, biological specimen processing, data collection, and education and outreach programs. Supports multiple projects involving invasive plant pests, agricultural commodities, biological specimens, and environmental monitoring.
This is a full-time, temporary, benefits eligible, grant funded position expected to end on or before 08/31/2027. Continuation of this position is contingent upon continued funding.
Primary Responsibilities (Staff Positions Only):
Interprets and applies routine but moderately complex directives requiring limited judgment, ordinary attention, and care. Conducts statewide field surveys and sampling. Identifies and documents survey locations. Deploys, services, and retrieves traps. Collects insect, plant, soil, water, or other project samples. Processes, sorts, labels, preserves, curates, and inventories samples and assists with preliminary identification and routine laboratory procedures. Enters and reviews project data and maintains field logs, photographs, sample records, and quality-assurance documentation. Prepares and maintains field and laboratory equipment, sampling supplies, vehicles, and work areas. Assists with education and outreach programs, coordinates assigned activities with the project team. Provides working supervision to student assistants as assigned. Performs other related duties as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 742 open Laboratory Assistant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$53–57K/yr21 salary ranges
- US median$19–26/hr356 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 45 open Laboratory Assistant jobs in Texas and 742 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- UTMB Health12 open
- Houston Methodist8 open
- HCA Healthcare6 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Laboratory Assistant postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (233 postings).
- Education
- 17 of the 742 open Laboratory Assistant jobs (2%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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