"Lab Manager"

Overview

The applicant will serve as the lab manager for two labs in the Yale Cardiovascular Research Center. General lab management duties include overseeing regulatory compliance related to animal use, chemical handling, and overall lab health and safety, as well as preparing protocols for approval by internal regulatory committees.

The manager will also be responsible for maintaining a core colony of mice used by lab researchers and serving as a general resource for animal care and experimental support. The lab manager acts as the primary liaison between the labs and health, safety, and animal care inspectors.

Additional responsibilities include ordering supplies, coordinating equipment purchases and repairs, and ensuring a well-organized and efficiently functioning laboratory environment.

• Mouse colony management and training lab personnel.
• Mouse ordering, imports and exports.
• Responsible for EHS, IACUC protocols, lab safety and regulatory issues.
• Supply purchasing.
• Equipment repair and purchasing.

Required Skills and Abilities

1. Mouse breeding.
2. Writing safety and animal protocols.
3. General Laboratory experience.

Preferred Skills and Abilities

1. Bachelor's degree in biology or related discipline, animal handling, general lab administration, and supervisory experience.

Principal Responsibilities

1. Reviews and determines staffing needs, job posting requirements, salary guidelines, and labor agreement interpretations for exempt and non-exempt staff in one or more functional department of the University.
2. Manages the administrative support needs for exempt and nonexempt staff and provides recommendations, improvements, solutions and assistance as needed.
3. Manages and monitors technology needs, conducts inventory, and system requirements for the assigned departments.
4. Develops and prepares budgets, financial forecasts, and financial analyses and the actual vs. budgeted performance reports for the departments.
5. Manages the use of facilities in one or more departments including office space, work stations, equipment, and office supplies.
6. Manages administrative support for activities of one or more departments to ensure timely completion of projects.
7. Manages and coordinates training sessions for assigned departments when new policies or practices are adopted.
8. Ensures compliance with University and federal regulations as they apply to the assigned departments.
9. Identifies, plans, and develops administrative policies for the assigned departments.
10. Assists in reviewing and implements University and departmental policies as they pertain to the administrative functions of the assigned department.
11. Assesses and makes recommendations regarding staff development and staffing levels.
12. Monitors, develops, plans, and executes systematic research on user requirements through such mechanisms as surveys, interviews, focus groups and competitive analysis.
13. Manages a staff of exempt and non-exempt employees.
14. May perform other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience

Minimum requirement of Bachelor’s Degree in related field and three years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.