Laboratory Manager

Overview

The Südhof Lab in the Stanford Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology and Neurosurgery is seeking a Lab Manager who will support cutting-edge research approaches and discovery. The position offers the opportunity to provide an array of conceptual, organizational, and technical support to work with the PI and lab members. You will be part of a highly interactive, supportive, and inclusive team of researchers investigating how synapses form in the brain and how their properties are specified, which together organize neural circuits.

The Südhof Lab studies how synapses become dysfunctional in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders to pave the way for better therapies.

This position will serve as the lab manager for a large and complex lab. The primary function of the lab manager is to ensure the research lab adheres to Stanford research policies and procedures, including health and safety protocols, chemical inventory, animal protocols, and space and capital equipment inventory. This position is responsible for orienting new lab members to the Sudhof lab and teaching necessary techniques, ensuring compliance with all health and safety protocols for a large and complex lab.

It is also responsible for supervising one lab technician and a lab administrator and for hiring, performance, and training duties.

• Maintain core technical approaches for the lab by mastering core methods, teaching these methods to lab members, and ensuring experimental standards. This includes developing and implementing new techniques or technical innovations based on literature research or interactions with vendors.
• Manage all data depositions, including those to SDR (Stanford digital repository) and the digital notebooks of lab members.
• Perform all regulatory procedures for the lab, including submission of regulatory applications such as animal use protocols or chemical safety protocols, managing the approval process, ensuring personnel training, and organizing inspections for various regulatory agencies.
• Manage the chemical database for the lab as required to maintain Stanford policies.
• Organize the space use of the Sudhof lab, including allocation of bench space, equipment placement, etc.
• Organize the lab duties of Sudhof lab personnel to ensure safe and efficient running of routine procedures.
• Manage the Sudhof lab mouse colony together with the lab administrator.
• Perform equipment and supply inventory checks.
• Train lab members in core lab techniques, including formal training to fulfill lab requirements and consult lab members on project work.
• Contribute substantively to the preparation of papers for publication, especially in the results section. May be a co-author on publications.
• Supervise lab administrator and lab technicians, overseeing equipment maintenance contracts, supplies, equipment purchases, and lab organization performed by the lab administrator.
• Oversee the operation and management of a research or teaching facility; schedule and coordinate use of equipment and/or facility.
• Negotiate and monitor equipment service contracts and warranties with vendors.
• Determine equipment needs, authorize purchase of equipment, and oversee installation of equipment and instruments in collaboration with facilities services staff.
• Perform and/or coordinate preventative maintenance and repair of all equipment; determine proper method of repair.
• Oversee layout, allocation, and tracking of space among multiple labs; manage logistics of laboratory moves; implement plans for renovations of equipment and/or facilities in collaboration with facilities services staff.
• Administer health and safety programs and ensure safety compliance; act as resource on safety procedures; provide instruction on a routine basis; liaise with school and/or university health and safety office as appropriate.
• Other duties may also be assigned

Bachelor's degree and two years of relevant experience, or a combination of education and relevant experience.

• Understanding of academic research facility needs.
• General background in a discipline related to the…