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About the Role
The Laboratory Manager plays a key role in supporting world-class research within UNSW Medicine & Health by ensuring the efficient, safe, and effective operation of laboratory facilities. This role provides expert operational, technical, and logistical support to researchers, enabling high-quality research outcomes within a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
Responsibilities
- Overseeing laboratory operations
- Maintaining research infrastructure and equipment
- Ensuring compliance with regulatory, laboratory practice, and workplace health and safety requirements
- Coordinating training and access to facilities
- Driving continuous improvement of systems, processes, and service delivery
- Providing advice on infrastructure, equipment, and enterprise projects
- Supporting the development of safe and sustainable laboratory practices
Requirements
- Relevant tertiary qualification in a scientific or other relevant research-based discipline and relevant work experience in a similar role, or other equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- Proven understanding and experience managing PC2 and PC3 (desired) laboratory
- Extensive experience in managing the operations of a research laboratory, including providing expert technical and logistical advice on research facilities, infrastructure, equipment, and instruments
- Proven technical expertise in specialist areas aligned with laboratory operations and research activities
- Proven ability to investigate, analyse, and resolve complex technical, operational, and logistical issues
- Ability to provide instruction and training to others in the safe use of laboratory equipment and instruments, including safe laboratory techniques, risk assessments, and safety procedures
- Ability to review and advise on the development of policies, systems, procedures, and guidelines relevant to research laboratories
- Must hold unrestricted work rights to be considered for this position
Skills
- Laboratory management
- Research infrastructure maintenance
- Equipment maintenance
- Regulatory compliance
- Laboratory practice compliance
- Workplace health and safety compliance
- Training coordination
- Facility access coordination
- System improvement
- Process improvement
- Service delivery improvement
- Technical advice
- Logistical advice
- Infrastructure advice
- Equipment advice
- Enterprise project advice
- Safe laboratory practices
- PC2 laboratory management
- PC3 laboratory management
- Technical expertise
- Problem-solving
- Instruction and training
- Risk assessment
- Policy development advice
- Systems development advice
- Procedure development advice
- Guideline development advice
Location
- Kensington Campus, New South Wales
Work Type
- Full Time
- 35 hours per week
- Continuing
Experience Level
- Based on experience
Education Level
- Relevant tertiary qualification in a scientific or other relevant research-based discipline
Salary/Compensations
- $118K- $128K
- 17% super+ annual leave loading
Benefits
- Career development opportunities
- 17% Superannuation contributions
- Additional leave loading payments
- 10 days paid cultural leave per year
- Additional 3 days of leave over Christmas period
- Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness)
About the Company
- UNSW Medicine & Health is dedicated to delivering world-class research.
- UNSW offers a competitive salary and access to a plethora of UNSW-perks.
- Make each day matter with a meaningful career at UNSW.
Equal Opportunity
- UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion.
- Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged.
- UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff.