Thejacksonlaboratory

Thejacksonlaboratory

Research Laboratory Manager

Bar Harbor, Maine

Sponsorship not specified$65k-$109kDetected 30 days ago
Data AnalysisComplianceProject ManagementPerformance ManagementCRISPRFlow CytometryMolecular BiologyScientific WritingResearchLab ResearchExperimental DesignAnimal StudiesLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringOrganizational Skills

About the role

  • The Research Lab Manager plays a critical role in driving the success of the Trowbridge Lab's research program.
  • This position requires a highly organized, collaborative, and innovative scientist and manager who can operate independently while ensuring alignment with the Principal Investigator's research goals.
  • The Lab Manager will serve as a key liaison across JAX teams and help ensure research projects progress efficiently and effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Lead lab operations: Oversee daily laboratory activities, ensuring efficient workflows and compliance with institutional standards.
  • Maintain regulatory compliance: Responsible for generating, filing, updating and amending laboratory safety plans, animal and biosafety protocols, documenting lab member trainings, and other tasks needed for compliance with institutional regulatory requirements.
  • Supervise and mentor staff: Directly manage, train and evaluate laboratory research assistants and technicians
  • lead in hiring, career development, and performance management of these laboratory members
  • Drive research progress: Provide experimental support to lab members, internal and external collaborators. Design, troubleshoot, and execute experiments
  • Coordinate research initiatives: Manage mouse colony needs and experimental timelines to ensure alignment of multiple research projects.
  • Maintain collaboration: Interface with internal teams and external collaborators to keep projects on track.
  • Supervise and mentor staff: Directly manage, train and evaluate laboratory research assistants and technicians; lead in hiring, career development, and performance management of these laboratory members; provide daily and weekly schedules to align with experimental needs of laboratory members.
  • Drive research progress: Provide experimental support to lab members, internal and external collaborators. Design, troubleshoot, and execute experiments; analyze and communicate data.
  • Directly manage, train and evaluate laboratory research assistants and technicians; lead in hiring, career development, and performance management of these laboratory members; provide daily and weekly schedules to align with experimental needs of laboratory members.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific discipline (advanced degree preferred or equivalent experience).
  • 5+ years of experience in a research laboratory environment.
  • Minimum 2 years of supervisory or team leadership experience.
  • Strong background in mouse genetics, molecular biology, or a related field.
  • Must be a self-motivated, team-oriented, patient and disciplined problem solver and solution builder.
  • Strong data analysis, organization, and scientific writing skills.
  • Experience supporting grant writing and peer-reviewed publications.
  • Demonstrated effective communication, collaboration, and project management abilities.

Skills

  • Stay current with emerging technologies and integrate new methodologies into lab work.

Compensation

  • $65,018 - $108,857 per year, depending upon experience

Benefits

  • Its mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.

Equal opportunity

  • The Jackson Laboratory provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, age, mental disability, physical disability, medical condition, gender, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, national origin, veteran status, and other classifications protected by applicable state and local non-discrimination laws.
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