Laboratory Manager

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Close Date:
March 4, 2026

Job Title:

Laboratory Manager

NJ CSC Job Spec Code &

Title:

Professional Services Specialist 3 - Computer Services (PSS3C)

Job Category:
Classified, Non-Competitive, Non-Exempt, 35 hours per workweek

Union

Description:

CWA (Communications Workers of America)

Class Code: 21

Internal Salary Range:
Steps 1 - 11 ($64,340.11 - $94,061.71)

External Salary Range:
Steps 1 - 4 ($64,340.11 - $73,256.59)

The internal salary range is used for applicants who are current NJ state employees with underlying classified status for promotional calculations who meet the requirements below. The external salary range is used for candidates who are not NJ state employees who meet the requirements below.

Founded in 1855, TCNJ offers a highly personalized and collaborative liberal arts education with over 7,400 undergraduates and 700 graduate students. The college is consistently ranked among the top comprehensive colleges in the nation, offering small classes, a 13:1 student-faculty ratio, and an immersive living-learning experience. With a 4-year graduation rate ranked #1 in New Jersey and #9 among U.S. public institutions, TCNJ is a model for public higher education.

The primary goal of the Lab Manager is to support the experimental laboratories of the department. The laboratory manager is the primary teaching and research laboratories support for the department. They are critical to the operations of the laboratories by coordination, maintenance, and supervision of the Department’s stockroom infrastructure and its functions. The Lab Manager will collaborate with the instrumentation specialist, laboratory coordinators, and other relevant faculty and support staff.

As the Lab Manager plays an important role in the teaching and safety mission of the department, they may also have occasional curricular and programming responsibilities that include:

• Teaching undergraduate chemistry courses (introductory and advanced), developing and coordinating laboratory curricula, and integrating laboratory safety programming into coursework.
• Developing and delivering safety training for students and faculty, ensuring alignment with EHS and departmental compliance requirements.

• Oversight of the department’s main and satellite stockrooms, serving over 1,500 students annually across chemistry lab courses that serve the entire TCNJ campus, through the preparation of approximately 30–35 lab sections per fall and spring semesters.
• Management of a vast and wide range of chemical inventory (2,600 primary manufacturer’s containers in our stockrooms and research labs—including flammable solvents, pyrophoric metals, organic and inorganic compounds, peroxides, concentrated acids and bases—as well as a large number of secondary chemical containers, chemical samples, gas cylinders, and biological materials), and stewardship of hazardous materials in compliance with EHS protocols.
• Maintaining the department’s chemical and physical assets (excluding major instruments, office equipment, and IT).
• Ordering, organizing, and maintaining all departmental chemicals and laboratory supplies (including those for the stockroom and teaching laboratories), and ordering chemical and laboratory supplies for research laboratories.
• Hiring and supervising workers associated with stockroom functions.
• Maintenance of the department’s safety data sheet (SDS) library and digital inventory tracking system.
• Serving as one of the administrators of the Chemical Hygiene Plan. Supervision of chemical hygiene protocols and departmental compliance with federal, state, and institutional safety policies.
• Collaborate with the instrumentation specialist, laboratory coordinators, and other relevant faculty and support staff of the department.
• Coordination of hazardous waste stream disposal, ensuring timely…