New Science Building Research Facilities Manager

Date Posted: 01/23/2024
Req ID: 35463
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Ofc of VP-Research
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00055137

Description:

About us:
U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region—is one of the world’s great catalysts of humanpotential.

Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning and discovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.

This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside the Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome those who want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.

Your opportunity:
The New Science Building (NSB) is slated to open in early 2024. Across multiple floors it will encompass 200,000 ft2 of primarily wet laboratories, offices and meeting spaces. The building will house researchers from Biology and Chemical & Physical Sciences departments, provide growth for the Forensic Sciences program and the Centre for Medicinal Chemistry, host emerging ventures in SpinUp, and expand core research facility offerings.

The incumbent will oversee day-to-day operational needs for this new building’s core and shared research spaces, and SpinUp; work in collaboration with Facilities Management & Planning team and other units on campus; lead ordering of consumables, supplies and equipment through fostering strong connections with external vendors; provide training for users; and, oversee safety protocols.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing day-to-day operational needs for one or more labs/workshops
• Troubleshooting issues with lab equipment and/or workstations
• Liaising with course instructors to coordinate experiment set-up to compliment theoretical material
• Performing lab experiments that requires great precision and attention to many details
• Providing safety training and ensuring compliance to lab safety procedures and standards
• Scheduling and assigning work to a small group in a limited area
• Serving as a resource on specific issues to a group of specialists

Essential Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Life Sciences or Chemistry or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum four years of recent and related experience coordinating Life Sciences or Chemistry research laboratories and their operations, preferably in an academic postsecondary environment
• Experience with overseeing day-to-day operations of a research lab, scheduling resources, tracking inventory, ordering supplies, coordinating equipment maintenance, troubleshooting technical issues
• Demonstrated experience with developing, modifying, testing and setting up laboratory experiments
• Strongknowledge of University’s Environmental Health & Safety Program, Policies, Procedures and Guidelines, and experience with providing safety training and ensuring compliance to lab safety procedures and standards
• Ability to demonstrate and explain lab techniques, experimental procedures and protocols to students, lab personnel, faculty, and other users
• Experience developing manuals and procedure documents for a research lab.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office Suite, includingOutlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Experience with database management systems and editing applications for text, images, audio and video files
• Ability to foster and maintain effective relationships with individuals at all levels, and work effectively in a highly collaborative and consultative environment with faculty, course instructors, sessional lecturers, teaching assistants and other laboratory technicians

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Communicator
• Efficient
• Meticulous
• Organized
• Proactive
• Problem solver
• Team player

This role is currently eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, pursuant to University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the University of Toronto's Alternative Work Arrangement Guideline.

This is a 12 month term appointment with a possibility of extension.

Closing Date: 01/31/2024, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Term
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 13 -- $83,150 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $106,336. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Research Administration & Teaching
Recruiter: Carol Kayitaba

Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.