Job Type:

Employee

Duration in Months(for fixed-term jobs):

N/A

Job Family:

Laboratory Support

# of Open Positions:

1

Faculty/Service - Department:

Metabolomics

Campus:

Roger Guindon Hall

Union Affiliation:

SSUO

Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):

2025/09/15

Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):

2025/09/26

Hours per week:

35

Salary Grade:

SSUO Grade 11

Salary Range:

$90,987.00 - $114,932.00About the Faculty of Medicine
Welcome to the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, the first and largest bilingual medical faculty in Canada. Our learners have access to state-of-the art facilities and specialized institutions as they learn alongside world-class physicians and scientists. Consistently ranked among the top 10 medical schools in Canada, our faculty is among the top faculties of medicine in the world for research impact in biomedical and health sciences.

Purpose:

Manages the scientific and operational aspects of a research laboratory or specialized facility providing analytical, equipment access or advisory services to a range of internal and external clients. In addition to overseeing laboratory operations, the incumbent is responsible for planning the deployment of the laboratories human, technical and support resources as needed to ensure that the objectives of the research projects comprising the laboratories broader program can be met, including ensuring the availability of well-maintained and operationally ready equipment when needed.

Typical tasks and duties:

Laboratory and Operations Management

• Oversees the planning and scheduling of laboratory activities, including the setting up and running of planned experiments and ensuring that experiments are appropriately supervised and supported.
• Responsible for maintaining quality data collection, data entry and analysis and oversees the operation of the laboratory’s physical and information systems for research data collection, analysis, maintenance and storage.
• Oversees the operation, maintenance, and management of the laboratory’s research equipment.

Financial Operations

• Tracks expenditures against project budgets.
• Assures that all laboratory financial operations comply with university and sponsor requirements.
• Minimizes the risk of financial losses by integrating and synthesizing financial data from different projects, verifying that expenses have been correctly charged to different projects in compliance with differing sponsor requirements, making corrections as necessary, and assuring that all expenses are correctly charged to each project.

Personnel supervision and management

• Ensures that personnel are competent to perform analytical procedures, and record and to report test results promptly and accurately.
• Supervises activities of staff and students working in the laboratory. Supervises orientation and training of new project staff.
• Provides expert training and advice to staff, students, Research Associates and PostDoctoral Fellows on all operational, technical, safety and regulatory compliance matters within the laboratory.
• Monitors operations to ensure compliance and ensures that all non-compliant activities are stopped until compliance is assured.
• Evaluates performance of research staff, assistants, students and volunteers.

Scientific Operations and Management

• Ensures that results are recorded, analyzed and disseminated in a timely fashion. Assists with the preparation of research publications and presentations.
• Ensures that appropriate quality control and quality assurance procedures are established and maintained to assure the quality of laboratory operations and to identify problems as they occur.
• Identifies and troubleshoots research questions or problems which affect the conduct of the project and/or the participation of research subjects and providing leadership in resolving the situation.
• Prepares key documents including ethics applications, manuscripts for publication, project reports, abstracts, scientific posters and presentations, etc.
• Participates in identifying and applying for additional funding.
• Liaises with project partners, network participants, sponsors, government and external agencies etc. on behalf of the laboratory.
• Conducts experiments requiring advanced scientific methodologies or use of highly sophisticated equipment.

Regulatory Management

• Ensures awareness of and adherence to all applicable regulatory requirements by all technical and operational staff, students and authorized equipment users, including regulations applying to human and animal subjects, hazardous materials, radiation, controlled goods, etc.

Other

• As assigned and under the direction of the Principal Investigator, independently conducts more complex research activities in support of short and long term laboratory operational requirements.
• Establishes and maintains lines of communication with internal and external customers in order to assure high quality client interaction and service.
• Any other related duties required by the research projects or management of the research laboratory or analytical facility.

Knowledge, skills, education and experience:

• M.Sc. in a relevant discipline and three to five years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of experience and educational qualifications.
• Three to five years progressive experience in management and supervision of research and /or laboratory operations.
• Knowledge of policies and procedures and regulations regarding laboratory operations.
• Knowledge of supervisory principles and practices.
• Demonstrated leadership, self-directed and rational problem solving skills.
• Ability to effectively delegate authority.
• Excellent communications skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, technical, scientific and communications skills (written/oral).
• Advanced written and verbal skills in English or French. Bilingualism, spoken and written, is preferred
• Five (5) years experience with mass spectrometry based metabolomics (LC-MS, GC-MS and CE-MS), as well as the implementation and development of new metabolomics methodologies.
• Experience with Agilent Technologies and Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Mass Spectrometers are preferred.

Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:

Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact hrtalentmanagement@uottawa.ca to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Note: if this is a union position: The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click here to find out more.

If this is a front-line position with responsibilities to interact with students, selected candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their second official language. The rating is determined by a proficiency test designed by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.

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