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School Laboratory Technician resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what school laboratory technicians actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most school laboratory technicians should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
School Laboratory Technician who prepares and maintains science laboratories so that practical classes run safely, on time and without disruption. Experienced across biology, chemistry and physics practicals, with day-to-day responsibility for chemical stores, equipment calibration and work health and safety compliance. Comfortable working alongside teachers and students and keeping the paperwork that sits behind a compliant laboratory in order.
Key skills
- Practical class preparation across biology, chemistry and physics
- Laboratory analysis and instrument calibration
- Regulatory compliance with WHS and school science safety requirements
- Chemical and consumable inventory management
- Hazardous chemical and biological waste disposal
- Risk assessment and safety data sheet maintenance
- Equipment maintenance and minor repair
- Glassware handling, cleaning and stock control
- Chemwatch
- RiskAssess
- Microsoft Excel
- Vernier Logger Pro
Experience: example bullet points
- Prepared equipment, chemicals and materials for multiple practical classes each day across three science subjects, keeping lessons running to the timetable.
- Maintained and calibrated microscopes, electronic balances, data loggers and Vernier probeware, reducing unplanned equipment downtime during practical sessions.
- Managed chemical, consumable and glassware stock levels, maintaining the chemical register and reordering ahead of term so practicals were never held up by missing reagents.
- Disposed of chemical and biological waste in line with WHS requirements and school procedures, keeping waste records current and ready for audit.
- Assisted teachers and students during practical sessions, demonstrating safe use of Bunsen burners, fume cupboards and electrical apparatus.
- Updated risk assessments and safety data sheets in RiskAssess and Chemwatch and kept the laboratory compliant with AS/NZS 2243 safety in laboratories standards.
Education
Certificate IV in Laboratory Techniques (MSL40118) or Certificate III in Laboratory Skills (MSL30118); some technicians hold a science degree, and a Working with Children Check plus current first aid are typically required.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- school laboratory technician
- science laboratory
- laboratory technician
- WHS
- work health and safety
- AS/NZS 2243
- safety data sheets
- chemical register
- risk assessment
- hazardous substances
- chemical waste disposal
- biological waste
- glassware
- calibration
- autoclave
- fume cupboard
- Chemwatch
- RiskAssess
- Science ASSIST
- Working with Children Check
- first aid
- stock control
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.