Rossi Lab - Lab Supervisor

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

This position is expected to be filled by promotion/reassignment and is included here to inform you of its vacancy at the University.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

• Responsible for the daily operations of the research laboratory including maintaining laboratory equipment, vendors’ account list and supply inventories and overseeing equipment repairs.

• Maintains and enforces lab cleanliness and organization by monitoring common lab spaces, cleaning, organizing group cleaning activities, ensuring responsible parties are aware of their duties, coordinating freezers thaws, etc.

• Sources new suppliers to account for supply chain issues and to search out better pricing as well as higher quality products.

• Supports the development and documentation of laboratory operating procedures, such as SOPs for proper instrument use and a guidebook for new laboratory members (ex. pipette calibrations, LN2 tank usage).

• Communicates lab safety guidelines to lab members. Ensuring all safety regulations and training are met, including working with UBC's Safety & Risk Services (SRS) as needed.

• Schedules and monitoring waste removal by ensuring proper labeling and corresponding with other parties involved in the process (e.g. chemical, biological).

• Participates in the UBC SBME local safety team.

• Acts as liaison with SBME building staff on operational issues.

• Manages the budget and forecasting of lab finances.

• Manages laboratory biosafety and ethics certification, ensuring they are up to date and establishing new protocols and applications as needed.

• Edits and proofs documents, including research grant applications, reporting documentation for funding agencies, student reports, manuscripts, fellowship applications, sponsored research agreements and other contracts with non-academic research collaborators.

• Works closely with HR to facilitate appointments and reappointments for staff and students by providing appointment details, writing job descriptions, partaking in interviewing and onboarding processes and training new staff.

• Responsible for personnel onboarding, ensuring enrollment and completion for mandatory courses.

• Assists in offboarding departing lab members, ensuring a timely and complete transition of lab resources, lab notebooks, and experimental data to the lab.

• Develops standard operating procedures for research methodology with support from lab scientists.

• Carries out any other related duties as required in keeping with the qualifications and requirements of positions in this classification.

Technical Duties:

• Plans, designs, and conducts standard molecular and cell biology experiments on mammalian cell lines

• Develops novel techniques and methodologies to achieve research goals, including developing and maintaining antibody panels for high content imaging.

• Maintains common cell line stocks.

• Extracts DNA, RNA.

• Performs plasmid extractions for transfections.

• Supports lab members in conducting and troubleshooting complex experiments

• Analyses and compiles data in report preparation, presents results, and participates in the preparation of scientific manuscripts.

Consequence of Error/Judgement
Decisions made in this position are crucial to the operation of the laboratory. Any errors made could jeopardize the experimental outcomes, damage the reputation of the laboratory and may also cease existing grant funding. Errors made by untimely ordering of supplies and organization…