[labnetwork] The Advanced Nanofabrication and Thin Film Core Lab, Director

[Christopher W. Joseph]

Dear Colleagues,

Just to introduce myself, I am a HR Consultant working at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology). KAUST is an international graduate-level, merit-based research university dedicated to advancing science and technology through innovative and collaborative research and addressing challenges of regional and global significance. Based near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, KAUST has attracted outstanding faculty and staff from all over the world, with strong representation from the USA, Germany, China, the UK, Australia, Japan, and Italy. This high diversity is also reflected by the student body, with more than 80 nations represented on campus.

I am currently recruiting for a Nanofabrication's Director who will have responsibility for managing our Nanofab Clean room etc.

The Nanofabrication and Thin Film Core Lab is positioned to facilitate and support KAUST research and education in the fields of microelectronics, electronic materials, MEMS, and biomedical and optical devices at micro and nano scales. The Core Lab's Nanofabrication facility provides a 2000 square meters of Class 100 and Class 1000 cleanroom environment for high yield device fabrication. It houses a wide spectrum of cleanroom processing equipment, covering lithography (stepper and ebeam writer), mask writing, dry and wet etch, thin film deposition, thermal processing, CMP, packaging and electrical characterization. The Thin Film Lab is a thin-film-growing facility for fundamental and application research in film deposition, thin film physical and chemical properties, and thin-film-related devices. It houses not only advanced thin film deposition capabilities, such as PLD, sputtering systems, atomic layer deposition, and electron beam deposition, but also advanced thin film physical and chemical property characterization instrumentation, such as physical property measurement system (PPMS), SQUID-VSM, RBS and atom probe.


Major Responsibilities


*         Provide leadership and management to a team of scientists, engineers and technical staff at the Core Lab who provide research and education support and service to the research community at and beyond KAUST

*         Conduct strategic planning to ensure that the facility at the Core Lab is at cutting-edge and is able to meet the research and education needs at KAUST and contribute to high impact research at KAUST.

*         Ensure that equipment and facilities in the Lab are well maintained, available and operational as research tools to the highest degree possible

*         Ensure safe operation of all equipment at all times

*         Initiate and work with the Team Leads on the continuous improvement plan of the lab staff to ensure they are competent in their respective technical areas and are able to make value-added contribution to KAUST research and teaching.

*         Ensure the training plan meets the need of KAUST research and education.

*         Ensure the Core Lab is able to provide professional service to KAUST strategic partners and industrial collaborators.

*         Conduct effective performance management of research and technical staff, including objective setting and performance evaluation.

*         Work with User Committee to ensure effective communications between Core Lab staff and user community

*         Provide financial oversight in budget management, reviews, and reporting, and ensure the Lab is running based on the planned budget.

*         Develop policies and procedures specific to the Core Lab

*         Ensure compliance with applicable regulations and international best practices
Competencies


*         Experience in leadership and management of a research team and administration of research facilities.

*         Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and motivate a team as well as communicate with upper management.

*         Good knowledge in overall cleanroom operation and running, preferably with strong process integration knowledge and in-depth knowledge of certain process modules.

*         Good knowledge in toxic gas management (TGM) system, laboratory control system (LCS) and clean room protocol execution.

*         Knowledge of the working principle of advanced characterization instruments such as physical properties measurement system (PPMS), magnetic properties measurement system (MPMS-SQUID), Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS), magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) etc.

*         Ability to catch up with the latest technical development in the area of nano-scale science and technology, advanced materials deposition techniques, advanced characterization instrumentation and techniques. Able to assess its relevance to KAUST research and make new instrumentation plan to facilitate KAUST research.

*         Ability to maintain and develop high-end facilities, and to sustain responsive services to the research community.

*         Ability to work with equipment vendors and build up win-win work relationship to ensure high equipment uptime.

*         Ability to initiate and develop collaborative projects with Lab users.


Qualifications
A PhD in science or engineering, at least 10 years of significant accomplishment in research or development, and extensive experience in leading a research team and managing research facilities.

If this is of interest, or you may know someone who may be interested then please do get in touch. My email address is Christopher.joseph at kaust.edu.sa<mailto:Christopher.joseph at kaust.edu.sa>.

Regards,

Chris





Christopher Joseph
Senior Recruitment Specialist, Human Resources
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Administration Building 16
Level 2, Office 2516
Thuwal 23955-6900
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Office: +966 12 808 3276
Email: christopher.joseph at kaust.edu.sa<mailto:christopher.joseph at kaust.edu.sa>
Website: www.kaust.edu.sa<http://www.kaust.edu.sa/>

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