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Laboratory Manager I

Employer
Georgia Tech - School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Location
Atlanta, Georgia
Salary
up to $70,000 per year + benefits
Closing date
Oct 31, 2019

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Field of specialization
Environmental, Health & Safety
Work Function
Health / Safety, Laboratory, Management-Laboratory
Job Type
Full time

Job Details

Georgia Institute of Technology

Job Description

Laboratory Mgr I

Job Purpose

Provide functional oversight to operation of an instructional or research laboratory. Activities include instruction in lab procedures and safety, development of lab procedures, conducting experiments, budgeting and purchasing, equipment and inventory maintenance and maintaining records. May provide work direction to student assistants.

Impact & Influence

This position will interact on a consistent basis with: academic and/or research faculty members, staff and students, vendor/suppliers. This position typically will advise and counsel: lab users, students, student assistants. This position will supervise: NA

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide instruction to lab users on proper use of lab equipment, lab safety, protocols and procedures related to conducting experiments.
  • Prepare and on approval administer laboratory budget; purchase supplies and equipment and maintain related records.
  • Maintain laboratory facility in safe, clean and organized manner.
  • Coordinate scheduling of lab usage.
  • Develop and implement laboratory policy and procedures; incorporate best practices as appropriate.
  • Calibrate lab instrumentation and maintain lab equipment.
  • May direct the scheduling and work of student assistants assigned to laboratory.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.

Education, Specialized Knowledge and Experience

Degrees required for this job : Bachelor's Degree in scientific field or equivalent combination of education and experience

Degrees preferred for this job : Master's Degree

Years of experience required for this job : Four to five years job related experience

Years preferred : Five years job related experience

Certifications or licenses required for this job : None

Certifications or licenses preferred : None

Specialized Skills

Specialized skills required for this job : This job requires working knowledge of instructional or research laboratory operation to include equipment calibration and maintenance, laboratory processes and procedures and lab safety rules and practices. Skills in communication, customer service, work guidance and instruction are required as is the use of specialty and general computer applications.

Specialized skills preferred : Use of required skills practiced in a university environment is preferred.

Additional Information

The Environmental Engineering (EnvE) Program is one of the top-ranked programs nationally, and currently includes approximately 13 academic faculty, 120 graduate students, 200 undergraduate students, and several research staff. This position supports the Environmental Engineering program faculty, students and staff in laboratory management responsibilities and service activities as detailed below:

A. Responsibilities

  • Serves as the Right-To-Know and Lab Safety 101 coordinator for EnvE, maintaining current records for all students, postdocs, and staff working in EnvE laboratories.
  • Serves as the liaison between EnvE and GT’s Environmental Health and Service (EHS), and assists faculty and students in lab safety compliance.
  • Coordinates the GT Radiation Safety certification. Assists with the development of procedures to procure and use of radioactive materials. Oversees the implementation and annual audit of the radiation safety program at GT.
  • Coordinates with GT/EHS for chemical inventory and chemical waste pick-up and disposal.
  • Serves as the EnvE Property Control Coordinator. Maintains the capital assets inventory and submits annual equipment inventory reports.
  • Serves as the DEEL Building Safety/Security manager.
  • Serves as the ES&T-EnvE facilities safety contact person.
  • Coordinates with POD Area II and Area IV for the maintenance and repair of the laboratory facilities.

B. Service Activities

  • Prepares specifications and coordinates with instrument manufactures for the procurement of new instruments.
  • Coordinates installation of new instruments.
  • Trains faculty and students on new and existing instruments, and in chemical inventory and waste management.
  • Maintains, repairs, and upgrades research equipment at both locations (DEEL and ES&T).
  • Assists in instrumental method development.
  • Assists in the development/utilization of laboratory space for current and newly hired faculty.
  • Assists in the preparation of the EnvE laboratory courses.
  • Participates in the development of large research proposals relative to analytical methods as the QA/QC officer.

Preference will be given to applications received by Oct. 31 2019.

Company

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Georgia Tech has a long tradition of excellence in engineering education. We believe that our strong reputation is based on several factors, including our attention to engineering fundamentals, investments in state-of-the-art technology, and the world-class scholars that comprise CEE's faculty. Civil and environmental engineering are broad and diverse engineering disciplines that work on many facets of improving the human condition. The construction of all things big and small are long-standing examples of civil engineering projects from clean drinking water, to designing and implementing efficient and safe transportation systems, to constructing buildings and bridges that survive seismic activity, to building dams for hydropower and flood control. Today our faculty and students are working on problems that go far beyond these traditional areas to provide growing populations with innovative solutions needed to survive in a global society. Civil and environmental engineers both focus on the needs of people. The need for civil and/or environmental engineers will only increase in the future as society copes with expanding urbanization, decaying infrastructures, global climate change, and an increase in the human population. The civil and environmental engineering job markets provide opportunities for our graduates both nationally and internationally. Earning a bachelor's degree in civil or environmental engineering at Georgia Tech will prepare our graduates for a future career in an engineering discipline that is expanding and changing in concert with the world in which we live in. We encourage well-qualified prospective students to consider this long-standing, dynamic, and broad engineering discipline as their academic program of choice and to join the school where we believe, "People are our priority and the world is our laboratory." Reginald DesRoches, Ph.D. Karen and John Huff School Chair and Professor

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