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Academic Lab Safety and Facilities Manager

Employer: Denison University
Location: Granville, OH

Administrative Jobs: Academic Affairs, Research Staff & Technicians, Institutional & Business Affairs, Facilities Management & Sustainability
Employment Type: Full Time
Institution Type: Four-Year Institution

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Organization

Job Details

Position Type:

Support Staff

Classification Title:

Affiliated Staff

Position Title:

Academic Lab Safety and Facilities Manager

Position Number:

A00580

Pay Grade Level:

AD 01

Department:

Biology Department

Posting Number:

S 121301231

Full or Part Time:

Full Time

Number of Months:

Basic Function:

The Academic Lab Safety and Facilities Manager will develop and maintain laboratory safety protocols and train faculty, staff, and students as required across all academic departments with chemical, biological or equipment safety needs. They provide support for laboratory instruction with an emphasis on supporting proper equipment use in the Natural Science division. They also provide support for equipment and lab facilities maintenance across the Natural Science division.

Reports to Chair of the Department of Biology, working with Chemical Hygiene (in Chemistry) and EHS office (in facilities), with priorities set by Department Chairs of Laboratory and Workshop based departments – Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Physics, Psychology, and Studio Art

Essential Job Functions:

1. Lab Safety Management

Regularly compile and update OSHA safety documentation relevant to each department.
With the Chemical Hygiene Officer, make sure the Chemical Hygiene Plan is updated and reviewed by each relevant department annually and as needed.
Develop and conduct laboratory safety training for new employees in each laboratory-based department (or coordinate with departments that do their own training).
Develop and conduct training for student employees and student researchers.
Develop ongoing safety communications for continuing employees.
Perform and/or supervise monthly inspections of laboratory safety equipment.
Maintain database of hazardous materials.
Manage hazardous waste disposal pick-up (for departments outside Chemistry & Biochemistry, in consultation with the Chemical Hygiene Officer and the Environmental Health & Safety Officer).

2. Documentation Management

Maintain chemical inventory for departments outside Chemistry & Biochemistry.
Develop and maintain proper documentation for laboratory safety and chemical safety as required.
Develop and maintain a database of laboratory equipment.

3. Lab Equipment Maintenance and Repair Oversight

Serve as primary contact for non-functioning laboratory equipment (includes both lab infrastructure, such as autoclaves, distilled water system, ventilation hoods, etc., as well as stand-alone laboratory devices).
Make arrangements for equipment repairs and routine maintenance (including hoods, pipetters, and microscopes).
Monitoring essential equipment (e.g. freezers) and responding to critical outages.
Develop relationships with equipment vendors and repair companies.
Communicate with faculty and staff regarding equipment outages.
Oversee decommissioning of obsolete equipment.
Serve as point of contact for communications with Facilities Services regarding building outages, repairs, renovations.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree with experience working in a lab
Ability to work with minimal supervision
Good oral and written communication skills
Strong interpersonal skills
Working knowledge of laboratory equipment and chemicals
Strong organizational skills
Working knowledge of MS Office or Google Suite

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working with students
CHO certification or other relevant training
Strong experience with MS Office or Google Suite
Experience with lab management software
Experience developing or implementing training materials and programs

Physical Demands:

Comfort with light physical work.
Ability to lift at least 20 lbs.

Contact(s):

Christine Weingart

Contact Email:

weingartc@denison.edu

Open Until Filled:

Yes

Denison University Background Check Statement:

The final candidate will undergo a background check as a conditional offer of employment.

Denison University EEO Statement :

To achieve our mission as a liberal arts college, we continually strive to attract and hire candidates with diverse backgrounds, experiences and identities. Denison fosters a campus community that recognizes the value of all persons regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender expression and identity, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or socio-economic background. For additional information and resources about diversity at Denison, please see our Diversity Guide (https://denison.edu/forms/diversity-guide). Denison University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Organization

As one of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges, Denison offers an authentic education in the fine arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Founded in 1831, Denison is one of the earliest colleges to be established in the old “Northwest Territory,” west of the Allegheny Mountains and north of the Ohio River. Denison is located in Granville, Ohio; 27 miles east of Columbus, the state capital.<img alt="denison_university1.jpg" src="http://www.insidehighered.com/careers/styles/medium/public/images/institution_profile/uploads/denison_university1.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: right;" typeof="foaf:Image" /> Innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in the pursuit of knowledge and the cultivation of independent thinking. And because Denison is a residential college, students are deeply engaged as citizens of the campus community. They learn from one another in a rigorous academic setting, but also in rich social, cultural and political environments. As a residential undergraduate liberal arts college, Denison is among those places that have been called “distinctively American” in their contribution to higher education worldwide. In fact, it is one of a select number of institutions that today defines the type. Confident in the distinction of its graduates and advantaged by unusual resources, Denison has pointedly resisted the tendency in higher education to add layers of graduate degrees, professional schools, and service functions beyond the scope of baccalaureate education of the highest order. Entering its 177th year, Denison has maintained a fully residential campus based upon the well-tested premise that learning flourishes in community. Denison selectively admits successful, confident, and motivated students who seek to take advantage of highly participatory learning within classroom, laboratory, and studio and who expect to learn and grow through their investment in the challenges and opportunities of college life. The college attracts matriculants from across the country and more than three dozen nations. Denison engages students with outstanding professors in small classes that encourage men and women to take a high degree of personal responsibility for learning. Students pursue a major field of study selected from 39 areas offered by 28 disciplinary departments and interdisciplinary programs in the divisions of Natural Science, Humanities, Social Science, and Fine Arts as well as complete a sequence of General Education and a personalized curriculum of electives from across the college. <img alt="denison_university2.jpg" src="http://www.insidehighered.com/careers/styles/medium/public/images/institution_profile/uploads/denison_university2.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: left;" typeof="foaf:Image" />A Denison education is not just for a living but for a life. Denison graduates are educated to be curious, resourceful, and reflective. They are expected to begin a life of learning at Denison, not complete it. They are well prepared for the rapidly changing world of the 21st century. Nothing defines a Denison education more than the mutually enriching relationships that develop between students and faculty. The heart of the college is a full-time faculty of almost 200. These men and women, who hold the most advanced degrees in their fields, are selected on the basis of pedagogical and scholarly ability and are encouraged to be innovative teachers whose continuing growth in their discipline through active scholarship allows them to be among the best at their craft. They look forward to the challenge and stimulation of their students even as they seek to draw the best efforts from them. Many Denison students come to regard professors as mentors, who frequently oversee students' independent scholarly projects. Denison’s faculty is committed to undergraduate education. As teacher-scholar-advisers, their principal responsibility is effective teaching informed by the best scholarship. Faculty members place a priority on working closely with students, interactive learning, and partnerships with students in original research. Denison’s low student/faculty ratio allows for close supervision of independent research and collaborative work in small groups and classes. <img alt="denison_university3.jpg" src="http://www.insidehighered.com/careers/styles/medium/public/images/institution_profile/uploads/denison_university3.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: right;" typeof="foaf:Image" /> At Denison, men and women learn and grow in community, and the residential character of the campus is more than a convenience but a way of engaging the full student body in a shared enterprise. The college actively seeks academically superior students who bring diverse talents, interests, backgrounds, and experiences, believing that out of the classroom as well as within learning takes place by sharing, questioning, and growing together. Denison students have unusual opportunities to participate in the arts, in athletics and recreation, in service to others beyond the campus, in student organizational life, and in campus governance.

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