Manager, Laboratory Services

An opening for Assistant Program Manager is currently available at NTU Institute of Structural Biology. This position is essential to provide administrative and management support to NISB.

Responsibilities

Administrative:

• Safety management
  • Facilitate compliance support with laboratory safety and health guidelines.
  • Assist Program Director and Platform Manager in overseeing and managing Protein Production Platform and NISB Cryo-EM Platform safety-related issues.
  • Liaise with the NISB safety manager on the latest safety implementation.
  • Safety briefing to new users and research group.
  • Verify and collate user’s risk assessment and OHSE online safety courses and review existing safety policies, measures, and update
     
• Procurement and asset management
  • Review and ensure procurement procedure that adheres to NTU procurement guidelines and policy.
  • Ordering requester and a good receiver.
  • Ordering laboratory consumables and chemical reagents.
  • Updating and tracking lab inventory list SDS
     
• Equipment maintenance service contract
  • Liaise with the service provider and NTU legal on the service agreement.
  • Updating and keeping track of equipment’s service contract validity.
     
• Quotation and billing
  • Liaise and understand customers’ requests and propose competitive costs for the experiment and the issuance of quotations.
  • Handle and monitor the billing process

Technical support:

• Assist and consult on protein expression and purification and cryo-EM with industry customers.
• Supervise and train new users – students and junior researchers.
• Establish Cryo-EM and protein production workflow.

Requirements

• Possess Master or PhD in Biological Life Sciences or related disciplines.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience on laboratory management and administrative, laboratory safety management, and procurement.
• Minimum 1 year hands-on experience in protein production (prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression system) and protein purification) and cryo-TEM workflow.  
• Basic laboratory knowledge and skills are mandatory.
• Excellent teamwork awareness and good interpersonal skills
• Strong responsibility for research work and able to work independently.

Hiring Institution: NTU

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