Teaching Laboratory Technician

Date Posted: 01/20/2025

Req ID: 41356

Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga

Department: UTM: Biology

Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)

Position Number: 00057549

Description:

About us:

U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region—is one of the world’s great catalysts of human potential.

Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning and discovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.

This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside the Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome those who want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.

Your opportunity:

Under the direction of the Chair, and reporting to the Department Manager, the Teaching Lab Technician will oversee the day-to-day operations of one or more practicum/labs in the Department of Biology, working closely with faculty instructors, teaching assistants and departmental administrative staff.

This position requires occasional evening coverage and overtime on weekdays.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing day-to-day operational needs for one or more labs/practicums for Biology undergraduate courses, ensuring that experiments and demonstrations are set up and run properly, and that the material needs of laboratory exercises are available.
• Modifying, testing and recommending new experiments and teaching lab exercises that complement the theoretical material taught in courses
• Providing detailed explanations and demonstrating procedures to students and/or employees on lab techniques, experimental procedures and protocols
• Providing safety training and ensuring compliance to lab safety procedures and standards
• Coordinating routine maintenance of lab equipment and troubleshooting issues with lab equipment and/or workstations; performing periodic inventory of laboratory equipment, instruments and supplies
• Collaborating on cost estimates, recommending and making purchases
• Serving as a resource to others by providing (non-supervisory) job-related guidance

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum three years of teaching laboratory experience in a university environment, and knowledge of one or more of the following Biology fields: Anatomy and Physiology, Cell and Systems Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Genetics or other areas covered by the courses taught in the department
• Demonstrated experience with developing, modifying, testing and setting up laboratory experiments supporting student learning objectives and theoretical material taught in Biology courses
• Ability to demonstrate and explain lab techniques, experimental procedures and protocols to students, teaching assistants and other employees
• Experience with overseeing day-to-day operations of a lab, scheduling resources, tracking inventory, ordering supplies, coordinating equipment maintenance, troubleshooting technical issues
• Strong knowledge of University’s Environmental Health & Safety Program, Policies, Procedures and Guidelines
• Ability to foster and maintain effective relationships with individuals at all levels, and work effectively in a highly collaborative and consultative environment with faculty, course instructors, sessional lecturers, teaching assistants and other laboratory technicians.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office 365 Suite, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive. Experience with MS Access or other database management systems, Adobe Acrobat Professional and editing applications for text, images, audio and video files

To be successful in this roleyou will be:

• Communicator
• Organized
• Problem solver
• Team player

Closing Date: 01/28/2025, 11:59PM ET

Employee Group: USW 

Appointment Type: Budget – Continuing 

Schedule: Full-Time

Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:

USW Pay Band 11 — $75,223. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $96,196. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol. 

Job Category: Administrative / Managerial

Lived Experience Statement

Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.

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