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Job Description

We seek an organized, communicative, team-oriented Laboratory Coordinator Sr to oversee laboratory management and safety operations at two Centers within the Biodesign Institute, under the guidance of Center Directors Bruce Rittmann from the Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology (SCEB) and Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown from the Biodesign Center for Health Through Microbiomes (HTM). This Coordinator position is administrative and includes direct responsibility for assisting SCEB faculty (Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz, Anca Delgado, Yen-Jung Lai, Bruce Rittmann, César Torres, and Everett Eustance), HTM faculty (Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, Taichi Suzuki, Lee Voth-Gaeddert, and Esther Florsheim), and their laboratory personnel with the utmost attention to service and cooperation.

Essential Duties

  • Regularly communicates with faculty and lab members. Attends all lab meetings (unless excused) to understand mission, work, and personnel and to communicate critical needs.
  • Communicates with researchers to receive questions and concerns related to lab safety practices.
  • Oversees creation and updating of standard operating procedures and protocols.
  • Oversees onboarding of researchers to ensure that they are properly trained and prepared to conduct safe and productive research in our laboratory spaces. 
  • Coordinates shipment, importation, and exportation of biological samples using appropriate permits.
  • Provides appropriate personal protective equipment; presents safety instruction during lab meetings; trains new faculty in proper research compliance; trains employees to use gas cylinders, to dispose of hazardous waste, to operate the autoclave, etc.
  • In coordination with SCEB and HTM leadership teams, assists with space assignments and tracking to ensure that space is assigned equitably and efficiently to facilitate safe and productive research.
  • Serves as a liaison for laboratory areas to outside vendors and university departments including ASU Biosafety, and Environmental Health and Safety, Risk Management, Police and Fire departments and Facilities Management to facilitate resolution of issues.
  • Arranges for major repairs of equipment. Requisitions, inventories, and restocks supplies for the laboratories. 
  • Supervises, approves time, and is responsible for a student lab assistant, ensuring their tasks are accomplished.
  • Performs other duties as assigned..

Minimum Qualifications

Master's degree in a field appropriate to the area of assignment AND one year related laboratory experience; OR, Bachelor's degree in a field appropriate to the area of assignment AND three years laboratory or related experience; OR, Seven years of laboratory experience; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience working in a research laboratory; operating lab equipment or maintaining lab instrumentation; managing laboratory inventory; managing laboratory safety and knowledge of SDS and EH&S regulations; coordinating the work of others.
  • Experience with Microsoft applications (i.e., Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, and PowerPoint) and EndNote. 
  • Experience supervising or managing employees, including setting schedules and approving time. 
  • Experience and/or interest in project and people management. 
  • Experience with permitting (for example, USDA Soil Permits, CDC Permits) and working with institutional oversight committees (IBC, IRB, etc.). Familiarity with university industrial-hygiene-plan and safety policies.

Working Environment

ASU is a diverse enterprise with a wide variety of work and learning modes, locations, and a commitment to sustainability, innovation, and employee work-life balance. We are determined to maintain our position as an employer of choice in a competitive labor market, as such the following options may be offered dependent on department needs:

Flexible work options:

  • Alternative work schedules can include four, 10-hour workdays in a workweek; a nine-day, 80-hour schedule over two workweeks for exempt employees only; and staggered start and stop times.
  • Hybrid work is an arrangement where employees spend a minimum of 60% of their regular workweek at their primary ASU work location. Dean or vice president-level approval is required.
  • Remote work is an arrangement where the employee spends less than 60% of their regular workweek at a regularly assigned ASU work location. Executive vice president-level approval is required.

Standard Working Environment:

  • Climate-controlled office setting subject to extended periods of being in a stationary position.
  • Constantly detects and operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer. 
  • Ability to clearly communicate and exchange accurate information to perform essential duties.
  • Expected to be responsive to customers, engaged in work production, resourceful, flexible, and respectful of others.
  • Works with potentially hazardous agents or physical hazards, such as biologicals, chemicals, radioactive materials or lasers.

Department Statement

For the ninth year in a row, ASU has been named the most innovative school in the nation, recognizing the university's culture of groundbreaking research and partnerships, as well as its commitment to helping students thrive in college and beyond. U.S. News and World Report has named ASU as the most innovative university all nine years the category has existed.

ASU Knowledge Enterprise advances research, innovation, strategic partnerships, entrepreneurship, and international development. Our success arises from solutions-focused, interdisciplinary research; an entrepreneurial approach that is embedded in every school and department; and a commitment to transform society in a positive way. To learn more about how Knowledge Enterprise is a place for your career to grow, visit https://research.asu.edu/about-us/careers.

At Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. We value your unique background and perspective, and you may be just the right candidate for this position or other roles on our team.

Working at ASU has additional perks and OUTSTANDING benefits, which include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; sick leave and holidays; ASU/UA/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; state and optional retirement plans; access to ASU recreation and cultural activities; and more. To estimate the value of your total compensation, please visit https://cfo.asu.edu/compensation-estimator.

The Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology focuses on developing microbiological systems that capture or develop renewable resources and also prevent or clean up environmental pollution. Our team combines engineering approaches with microbiology and chemistry to reclaim polluted water and generate energy from waste substances. Center researchers combine engineering with microbiology, molecular biology, and chemistry in order to gain an integrated understanding of how microbial ecosystems work and can be controlled to reclaim polluted water, generate energy from waste substances, and improve public health and sustainability. 

ASU Statement

Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 100,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions intellectual and cultural diversity, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.

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