Uw Health

Laboratory Manager

Uw Health$70K — $120K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Knowledge of laboratory procedures, equipment, and techniques
  • Understanding of safety and animal welfare in laboratory settings
  • Strong time management, prioritization, and delegation skills
  • Effective communication with diverse audiences, including principal investigators and lab members
  • Creative problem-solving skills for budget and methodology challenges
  • Strong biological experimental skills, particularly in molecular biology and related techniques

Responsibilities

  • Identify and implement operational policies and procedures for the lab
  • Act as a liaison to internal and external stakeholders, making recommendations to leadership
  • Supervise daily lab operations and ensure compliance with standards
  • Monitor program budgets and expenses to maintain financial health
  • Exercise supervisory authority over staff, including hiring and performance management
  • Develop and conduct training on scientific and technical procedures

Benefits

  • Engagement in complex research projects with a focus on compliance and quality control
  • Opportunity to lead and supervise a dedicated team in a university lab environment
  • Collaborative atmosphere that encourages interaction with internal and external stakeholders
  • Access to training and development opportunities for professional growth
  • Contribution to significant, impactful research in pharmaceutical sciences.
Full Job Description
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.

Job Category: Academic Staff

Employment Type: Regular

Job Profile: Laboratory Manager

Job Summary:
This position directs the technical activities, operations, planning, and policy development of a lab, including coordinating the activities of multiple, complex projects and staff to ensure quality control and compliance with regulations. Specifically, the Lab Manager will be responsible for purchasing order placement, reimbursement of P-card and lab member's travel, lab duty assignment, refilling the shared reagents (e.g., DMEM, FBS, PBS), and performing other lab routines. Also, the lab manager will help PI to prepare and submit grants and help to prepare animal and biosafety protocols and annual updates.

Key Job Responsibilities:
  • Identifies, proposes, and implements new or revised unit operational policies and procedures in alignment with strategic initiatives and objectives
  • Serves as the unit liaison to internal and external stakeholder groups providing information, making recommendations to leadership, and representing the interests of the unit
  • Directs and supervises the day-to-day laboratory operations, quality control programs, and/or staff of a work unit to ensure compliance with organization and regulatory agency standards
  • Monitors program budgets and expenditures
  • May exercise supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 FTE or equivalent employees
  • Develops and facilitates trainings regarding scientific experimentation, technical procedures, and equipment operations to various audiences


Department:
This position will be in the CIPT Lab in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division of the School of Pharmacy.

Compensation:
Qualified candidates can expect to earn between $70,000 and $90,000. Candidates who are highly qualified may earn between $90,000 and $120,000. Please note, salaries will be prorated by FTE.

Required Qualifications:
  • Laboratory operations: Knowledge of laboratory procedures, equipment, and techniques
  • Safety: Knowledge of safety and animal welfare in laboratory environments
  • Management: Time management, prioritization, and delegation skills
  • Communication: The ability to communicate with a variety of audiences, including PI, lab members, sales and other professionals
  • Creative problem solving: The ability to handle problems related to budget, methodology, technology, and automation
  • Excellent biological experimental skills including molecular biology, western blot skills, cell transfection, stable cell line establishment.


Education:
PhD highly desirable

How to Apply:
BOTH a resume and cover letter are REQUIRED. Please upload both documents as a SINGLE PDF file.

Please ensure that the resume and cover letter address how you meet the required qualifications and the skills/requirements outlined in the job summary. Please keep in mind, applicants need to articulate all requirements in their cover letter and/or resume. References will only be collected from finalists for the position.

The application reviewers will be relying on written application materials to determine who may advance to interviews. PLEASE upload both documents as a SINGLE PDF.

Contact Information:
For issues with your application, please contact Allison Miller at [email protected].

About Uw Health

UW Health University Hospital is a 515-bed academic regional referral center with 127 outpatient clinics, located on the western edge of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's campus in Madison, Wisconsin. It is an American College of Surgeons designated Level I adult and pediatric trauma center, one of only two in Wisconsin. UW Health University Hospital has seven intensive care units, pediatric, neonatal, cardiac, cardiothoracic, burn, neurosurgery). UW Health University Hospital was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the 16th best hospital in the United States and the #1 hospital in Wisconsin in the publication's 2021-2022 Best Hospitals Honor Roll, earning national rankings in 10 adult and 6 pediatric specialties. Additionally, UW Health University Hospital was ranked as the 22nd best hospital in the United States and #84th Best Hospitals in the world by Newsweek in 2022. UW Health describes itself as "the integrated health system of the University of Wisconsin–Madison." It is the primary teaching affiliate of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. It is also the primary teaching affiliate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's School of Nursing and School of Pharmacy, and is a teaching affiliate of Edgewood College's Henry Predolin School of Nursing. UW Health University Hospital is home to the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, one of 40 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers. UW Health also operates the American Family Children's Hospital, a 110-bed pediatric hospital located adjacent to University Hospital, as well as UW Health at the American Center, a 59-bed hospital and emergency room located on the Northeast Side of Madison. Additionally, UW Health operates a network of outpatient clinics at over 80 sites throughout southern and central Wisconsin and northern Illinois, and has partnerships with UnityPoint Meriter Hospital in Madison, Beloit Hospital in Beloit, Wisconsin, and Swedish American Hospital in Rockford, Illinois. UW Health also has an affiliated insurance company, Quartz Health Solutions, Inc., operated in partnership with UnityPoint Health and Gundersen Health System.
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