Posting for a former colleague. Please send all inquiries about this position to Prof. Jason Hein at jhein2_at_ucmerced.edu.
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Director of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) LaboratorySchool of Natural Sciences
University of California, Merced
POSITION OVERVIEW
The School of Natural Sciences NMR Laboratory is a research facility for the use of faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and some well-supervised undergraduate researchers. The Laboratory Director provides engineering services and technical support to all users of the NMR equipment. The incumbent is responsible for the effective operation of the facility, ensuring that the laboratorys instrumentation, computers, electronic equipment, and engineering stations are maintained in state-of-the- art condition. The Laboratory Director reports to the NMR faculty advisory committee, and is responsible for long-term planning and oversight of the NMR facility.
The NMR Laboratory Director is expected to consult with customers regarding experimental methods needed to meet the needs of the research scientists in the School of Natural Sciences and the University of California, Merced as a whole . To achieve this, the incumbent is responsible for the following:
1. He/she shall be responsible for developing new techniques and identifying new equipment that will enhance the capabilities of the facility. In particular, he/she shall ensure that instrumentation stays at the cutting edge. For this purpose, the Laboratory Director will be responsible for initiation and writing of grant proposals in order to bring new equipment into the facility. Timelines for such initiation will be discussed with the Director of Facilities prior to implementation.
2. The incumbent assumes primary responsibility for providing comprehensive NMR spectroscopy support and user training in the School of Natural Sciences NMR facility. He/she engages in collaborations with members of the University of California, Merced community in order to provide the most appropriate NMR experiments pertinent to specific research efforts. The incumbent trains students in the use of the NMR instruments and conducts workshops and classes on NMR operation and theory. Specific responsibilities are:
(I) Assume primary responsibility for providing comprehensive NMR spectroscopy support and user training to up to 100 new students and postdoctoral researchers per year, taking into consideration their varying needs and diverse research efforts.
(II) Apply scientific knowledge and skills in NMR to support the research and teaching needs of the School of Natural Sciences community.
(III) Collaborate with principal investigators and other researchers in the design of experiments to maximize the full design capabilities of the instruments; assist in the analysis and interpretation of experimental data.
(IV) Provide consultation services to principal investigators and facility users as requested. Analyze experimental conditions and parameters and provide expert advice for improvements.
(V) Provide instruction and training to new users of the instruments, and evaluate users capability to use the instruments, this may including teaching a five-week graduate level course on NMR principles and its application to chemistry.
(VI) Provide faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and students with tutorials and short courses on NMR techniques and applications.
3. He/she shall maintain acquisition and processing software, including writing custom software necessary for effective usage of the equipment. Incumbent is responsible for installation, modification, and testing of NMR-related software and hardware and for carefully documenting new software created for the facility. He/she assists customers in connecting their own workstations for data transfer and off-line processing.
4. Incumbent is responsible for developing and maintaining a reliable preventive maintenance program for the NMR instruments. A concurrent responsibility is the ordering of appropriate electronic, computer and consumable components. He/she will also coordinate efforts with individuals or vendors to arrange for repairs to equipment if such repairs cannot be accomplished in-house.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Ph.D. with 10+ yrs experience in NMR; excellent written and oral communication; demonstrated experience with the application of modern multidimensional and heteronuclear methods to solve chemical problems.
It is desirable for the candidate to have proficiency with UNIX operating systems, including basic system administration.
Regares,
Dee
Dee-Hua Huang, Ph.D., Director
Research Service NMR Facility, BCC-153
The Scripps Research Institute
10550 N. Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037
(858) 784-2329
Received on Sat Feb 22 2014 - 14:54:45 MST