[labnetwork] Photonics Lab Manager Position - Immediate Employment

[Schnitzer, Cheryl]

Position type: Staff Full Time
Benefit Status: Benefited
Campus: Stonehill College
Department: Physics
Salary: Salary commensurate with experience
Employment Category: Non-Exempt
Visa Sponsorship Available: No

TO APPLY, VISIT: Stonehill College Employment Site | Photonics Lab Manager<https://jobs.stonehill.edu/postings/21576>

Position Title:
Photonics Lab Manager

General Summary of Position:
Working at Stonehill College offers an opportunity to work in a brand new, state-of-the-art Lab for Education and Application Prototypes (LEAP) photonics lab with faculty, students, staff, and industry partners. This LEAP focuses on photonics materials testing and characterization and high-speed testing for photonics devices and systems, complementing the other LEAPs in Massachusetts at MIT, WPI/QCC, BSU, and WNE/STCC. The LEAP network is funded by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to support AIM Photonics.

The job responsibilities include:

  *   Setting up any new equipment.
  *   Providing equipment operation training for students, researchers, and industry partners.
  *   Providing technical support for researchers and their projects.
  *   Practicing safe working conditions and communicating in written and oral forms.
  *   Maintaining laboratory equipment performance by: establishing quality standards; developing operations, quality, and troubleshooting procedures; ensuring workers' compliance; certifying instrument performance; arranging equipment replacement, service, and repair.
  *   Developing new tests, methods, instrumental programs, and procedures
  *   Investigating alternative methods and new projects; developing and performing parallel testing; monitoring progress.
  *   Maintaining professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, and/or establishing personal networks.
  *   Collaborating with photonics team in the development of grant proposals.
  *   Building up partnerships with industry.
  *   Working with professors to ensure that instruments and equipment are in working-order for their classes and experiments.
  *   Helping students with course lab-work and projects.

Minimum Qualifications (Required):

  *   Earned Bachelor's degree in Physics/Optics/Photonics, or closely related discipline, and required to have work experience in this area.
  *   Possess organizational skills, attention to detail, and the personality to train others.
  *   Have laser and optics/photonics lab experience and motivation to learn new skills and techniques.
  *   A working knowledge of some instruments such as FTIR, Raman, XRD, OSA, LCA, AWG, SEM, and Oscilloscope will be a plus.

The applicant will join an interdisciplinary program housed in the Physics and Astronomy Department. We have a wide range of disciplinary expertise, ranging from astrophysics to geophysics, quantum field theory, theoretical and experimental optics, engineering photonics and physical chemistry. We value independence and self-reliance, teamwork, and collegiality. We are looking for an energetic person who can bring their contribution to further academic growth of the department and the photonics program.
Founded by the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1948, Stonehill is a private Catholic college located just 22-miles from downtown Boston on a beautiful 384-acre campus in Easton, Massachusetts. With a student to faculty ratio of 13:1, the College engages its nearly 2,500+ students in 80+ rigorous academic programs in the liberal arts, sciences, and pre-professional fields.  Stonehill College embraces diversity and inclusion in its teaching, learning, living, and working. Stonehill values a diversity of persons, opinions, and cultural and religious perspectives. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply to this position.

TO APPLY, VISIT: Stonehill College Employment Site | Photonics Lab Manager<https://jobs.stonehill.edu/postings/21576>
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Cheryl Schnitzer, Ph.D.
* Professor, Department of Chemistry, Stonehill College
* co-PI, LEAP, Advanced Manufacturing & Integrated Photonics (AMIP) Technician Certificate Program
* Chair, Environmental Stewardship Council
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Good chemistry requires all of our elements. The Department of Chemistry and the Biochemistry Program value the perspectives, experiences, and identities of each and every individual.

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