Laboratory Manager for Advanced Energy Storage Lab

**Laboratory Manager for Advanced Energy Storage Lab (AESL)
- (HEO7) $91,187 -$101,987 per annum plus an employer contribution of 17% superannuation applies.**

**Fixed term position for a period of 5 years.**

**With the recent establishment of the Advanced Characterisation Facility, a skilled Laboratory Manager is required to manage the AESL laboratories, in particular the new established Battery Characterisation Laboratory.**

The Laboratory Manager will be responsible for providing expert technical support and advice to academic staff and postgraduates whilst ensuring the laboratory facilities are developed and maintained to accommodate the changing requirements of research opportunities and alignment to the strategic direction of AESL. The successful incumbent will have high level knowledge and technical expertise in the use of complex and sensitive and equipment and processes as well undertaking the maintenance, repair, and installation of new and existing equipment to accommodate nonstandard operations.

To be successful you will need:

- A relevant education and research background/degree in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience in using a range of analytical equipment, including GC, Battery Chargers, Gloveboxes, XPS, Furnaces, Ball millings etc.
- Demonstrated experience in the installation, operation, problem solving of relative equipment within laboratories.
- Demonstrated experience in successfully managing risk and work, health and safety standards in a laboratory environment to meet compliance to self-insured status.
- Demonstrated problem solving skills and initiative to learn new skills and processes to achieve an outcome.
- Demonstrated knowledge of technical services and principles associated with achieving customer focused outcomes.

**Enjoy an outstanding career environment.**

The University of Adelaide is a uniquely rewarding workplace. The size, breadth and quality of our education and research programs - including significant industry, government and community collaborations - offers you vast scope and opportunity for a long, fulfilling career.

It also enables us to attract high-calibre people in all facets of our operations, ensuring you will be surrounded by talented colleagues, many world-leading. Our work's cutting-edge nature - not just in your own area, but across virtually the full spectrum of human endeavour - provides a constant source of inspiration.

Our culture is one that welcomes all and embraces diversity consistent with our Staff Values and Behaviour Framework and our Values of integrity, respect, collegiality, excellence and discovery. We firmly believe that our people are our most valuable asset, so we work to grow and diversify the skills, knowledge and capability of all our staff.

We embrace flexibility as a key principle to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal and family life.

In addition, we offer a wide range of attractive staff benefits. These include: salary packaging; flexible work arrangements; high-quality professional development programs and activities; and an on-campus health clinic, gym and other fitness facilities.

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**Your faculty's broader role**

The Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology is a multidisciplinary hub of cutting-edge teaching and research. Many of its academic staff are world leaders in their fields and graduates are highly regarded by employers. The Faculty actively partners with innovative industries to solve problems of global significance.

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**If you have the talent, we'll give you the opportunity. Together, let's make history.**

**Applications close Sunday 21st May**

For a confidential discussion regarding this position, contact:
Dr. Shilin Zhang/Prof. Zaiping Guo
School of Chemical Engineering

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