Essential Functions:
- Use and maintenance of equipment
- Interact with customers who may be students, faculty, staff, community members or industry partners.
- Quote design and prototyping jobs in a timely manner
- Offer advising to customers for optimizing project deliverables
- Project management
- Documentation of projects (customer info, accounting, project management, etc.)
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Deliver high quality service to customers in a timely fashion
- Strong affinity for prototyping technologies
- Previous experience with prototyping equipment and software is preferred
- Excellent customer service skills and time management
Required Qualifications:
- Current DU undergraduate or graduate student enrolled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Working Environment:
- The Innovation Labs offer an exciting environment for hands-on learning and collaboration.
- Equipped with cutting-edge tools like 3D printers, laser cutters, and woodworking equipment.
- It can be an active space where students from various disciplines brainstorm, prototype, and create together. This dynamic space promotes self-directed learning and innovation, with mentoring available from peers and advisors.
- Safety protocols ensure a secure environment, while regular workshops and events foster a sense of community and accomplishment.
- The Innovation Labs embody the college’s spirit of experiential learning, empowering students to turn ideas into reality and bridge theory with practice.
Physical Activities:
- The physical abilities needed to work in the Innovation Labs are diverse and essential for a productive and safe environment.
- Manual dexterity is a fundamental skill for handling tools and materials
- Lifting and carrying capabilities are necessary for managing objects of varying weights.
- Tasks at varying heights might require your bending or kneeling abilities.
Compensation and Benefits:
- Students will be paid $18.81/hr.
- The position has flexible hours.
- Estimated 20 hours/week throughout summer
- In compliance with Colorado’s Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA), non-benefited employees accrue one hour of paid leave for every 30 hours worked up to a maximum of 48 hours per year.
Additional Details:
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Applications will be accepted continuously up until the closing date and positions will be filled as needed as opportunities arise.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement & Notice of Background Check
The University of Denver is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. For more information, please see the University of Denver’s Non-Discrimination Statement.
All offers of employment are based upon satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check. These are required for all part-time, full-time and student employee hires.
