Date Posted: 01/03/2024
Req ID: 35049
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Chem/Phys. Sciences
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00053329

Description:

About us:

U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region—is one of the world’s great catalysts of human potential.

Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning and discovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.

This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside the Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome those who want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.

Your opportunity:

CPS is an interdisciplinary science department comprising Chemistry, Physics, Earth Sciences, and Astronomy. Our vibrant research labs examine questions such as how cells are programmed, how proteins function, how we develop materials for human health and sustainable future, how Earth’s climate and biosphere change over time, how we monitor and predict natural hazards, and how students learn to approach these challenges. We offer undergraduate programs in Chemistry, Physics, Earth Sciences and Astronomy as well as interdisciplinary specializations in Biological Chemistry, Biomedical Physics, and Environmental Geoscience.

Our students have access to state-of-the-art teaching laboratories, are involved in cutting-edge research projects in our research labs and pursue internships at a broad range of technology companies across the GTA. Few departments can offer as wide array of experiences as can CPS, from mapping in the Andes to simulating protein folding, to building a laser trap. Our department is home to 25 full-time faculty, including award-winning educators and researchers, who supervise a total of 90 graduate students and 16 postdocs in the CPS research labs. About 40% of our faculty have been hired in the last 10 years, the result of a recruitment and renewal drive that is ongoing.

The Chemistry Laboratory Coordinator position is an integral role in supporting our students in their lab work. The Coordinator will have a wide range of duties such as overseeing the day-to-day operational needs for one or more labs/workshops, providing detailed explanations and demonstrating procedures to students and/or employees on lab techniques, experimental procedures and protocols, liaising with colleagues to encourage the use of best practices and consistent programming, assessing student experiential learning needs, and providing safety training and ensuring compliance of lab procedures and standards.


Your responsibilities will include:

• Performing lab experiments that requires great precision and attention to many details
• Ensuring that the material needs of laboratory exercises and/or courses are available
• Coordinating routine maintenance of lab equipment
• Analyzing lab reports and drafting content for funding applications and research papers
• Providing safety training and ensuring compliance to lab safety procedures and standards
• Approving purchases within established limits

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry or Biochemistry or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum three years of experience in a wet lab environment.
• Carrying out all experiments to be done by students and documenting the results, and provide the course instructor with data to facilitate grading of student lab reports.
• Adapting/modifying experiments in collaboration with the course instructor. Researching and validating new lab techniques and experiments.
• Costing out reagents for each experiment.
• Creating and updating standard operating procedures for lab experiments and equipment.
• Acting as a first-aid responder to ensure the health and safety of students and lab personnel.

Assets (Nonessential):

• First Aid CPR, WHMIS, and BioSafety certification and training
• Experience or training in biochemistry
• Master’s degree in chemistry, biochemistry or biology would be an asset

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Accountable
• Communicator
• Multi-tasker
• Organized
• Problem solver
• Team player

Closing Date: 01/17/2024, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 11 -- $73,748 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $94,310. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Administrative / Managerial
Recruiter: Valerie Davis

Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.