Laboratory Superintendent

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
Under the direction of the Scientific Officer of the Department, the Superintendent is responsible for the operation of the Physics Department's instructional laboratories.

**Responsibilities include**:

- Plan organize and control the Department's instructional laboratory resources.
- Supervise and provide scientific support to approximately 30 Senior and Junior Demonstrators teaching in the laboratories.
- Assign and direct the activities of the technicians working in the laboratories.
- Plan develop and maintain facilities and equipment inventories for the laboratories.
- In consultation with academic staff, plans, develop and revise laboratory experiments and laboratory manuals.
- Ensure that the progress of the students enrolled in each laboratory section is monitored and reported.
- Provide training sessions to lab demonstrators
- Develops new experiments and writes manuals

**Qualifications**:
**The incumbent must possess the following qualifications**:

- Thorough knowledge of the theories, principles, and practices of modern physics and of approaches and techniques used in physics experiments.
- Practical laboratory experience.
- Excellent knowledge of radiation and safety policy and procedures as they pertain to the safe environment of the laboratories
- Knowledge of computer software skills appropriate for the design and analysis of experiments
- Excellent organization skills; ability to determine priorities.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Sound judgement, ingenuity, and resourcefulness
- Diplomacy; excellent interpersonal and communication (oral and written) skills
- Supervisory experience.
- Ability to determine and allocate effectively and efficiently human and physical resources.
- Participate effectively as a team member
- Ability and initiative to keep up-to-date with current trends and development in the field.
- Qualified to obtain theWHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Identification System) certificate.

**Education and Experience**:
**The above is normally acquired through the completion of**:

- Master of Science in Physics or Engineering Physics, or equivalent
- Minimum three (3) years related experience, preferably in an educational environment.

**HR Note**:
Equivalencies will be considered. Applicants are encouraged to provide information which may demonstrate equivalent qualifications. Please note that applicants may be required to complete an employment test as part of the selection process for this position. Those applicants that are selected for an interview will be requested to contact the Human Resource Advisor assigned to this competition as soon as possible to discuss any accommodation requirements. Arrangements will be made to accommodate your request in a timely manner. Carleton University is strongly committed to fostering diversity within its community as a source of excellence, cultural enrichment, and social strength. We welcome those who would contribute to the further diversification of our University including, but not limited to: women; visible minorities; First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples; persons with disabilities; and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity and expressions.