Careers Job Description
General Description
The Assistant/Part-Time Laboratory Manager will aid the Laboratory Manager in supervising, monitoring, and ensuring the safety of the BMCC Research Core Laboratory Facilities. This Individual must possess leadership skills, be computer proficient in Microsoft programs, provide problem solving follow-through, and be able to communicate effectively with all levels of personnel.
The Assistant/ Part-Time Laboratory Manager will foster a synergistic relationship with the F/T Laboratory Manager to create an organized, safe laboratory environment for BMCC research students and faculty.
Please note a flexible schedule is a must.
Possible evening and Weekend hours necessary.
Other Duties
- Supervise students in wet laboratories, ensuring students in wet laboratory(s) are supervised at all times
- Monitor the use of laboratories and restrict access to research students, mentors, and pre-approved visitors only
- Provide access for students to ‘dry’ laboratories, including the physics and engineering labs, computer lab, and Social Sciences Research Laboratory (SSRL) upon request
- Maintain a clean laboratory environment, especially benchtops and sink areas
- Autoclave and properly dispose of biohazardous waste
- Remove chemical waste to the chemical storage area
- Enforce BMCC Research Core Laboratory Safety Policies and Regulations (dress code, etc.)
- Restock working Core laboratory supplies
- Refill working Core chemicals, such as but not limited to 70% ethanol and cleaning bottles
- Monitor levels of Core supplies and alert the Laboratory Manager when items need to be ordered
- Maintain an up-to-date chemical inventory
- Accept, log, and properly store deliveries
Qualifications
- Working knowledge of research laboratories and laboratory safety
- FDNY C-14 Certificate of Fitness: Supervising Non-Production Laboratories
- Wet Laboratory background
- Inquisitive team player
- Can work under little supervision
Educational Requirments: Bachelor's degree in STEM field.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.
RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
Academic Affairs-Research
Part Time
$20.00-$25.00
19.00
Sep 05, 2019 (Or Until Filled)