Laboratory Manager

**About TMHC Inc.**:
Established in 2003 with a head office in London, Ontario, TMHC Inc. (TMHC) provides a broad range of archaeological assessment, heritage planning and interpretation, cemetery, and community consultation services throughout the Province of Ontario. We specialize in providing heritage solutions that suit the past and present for a range of clients and intended audiences, while meeting the demands of the regulatory environment. Over the past two decades, TMHC has grown to become one of the largest privately-owned heritage consulting firms in Ontario and is today the largest predominately woman-owned Cultural Resource Management (CRM) business in Canada.

**Laboratory Manager**:
TMHC Inc. is currently recruiting for an individual to manage our archaeological laboratory. The Laboratory Manager is responsible for all facets of laboratory operations, from staff supervision, the scheduling, planning, and completion of laboratory projects, collections management, and corporate procedures and policies with respect to artifact process, analysis, storage and transfer. The Laboratory Manager works as part of a larger team of professionals who enact or manage various facets of archaeological assessment projects undertaken as part of larger environmental assessment and land use planning initiatives. The Laboratory Manager directly supervises laboratory specialists, artifact analysts, and individuals undertaking specialist analysis such as paleobotanical and faunal analysis. From time to time, the Laboratory Manager may also participate in various types of public outreach, from organizing and delivering public displays and activities, to conference presentations, to publications.

The Laboratory Manager position is integral to TMHC as an organization and is the face of the corporation in the larger archaeological discipline and is expected to have extensive experience in artifact analysis and material cultural research. Given these responsibilities, TMHC is hoping to fill this position at the Unit or Division Manager level, salary to be commensurate with previous experience in the management of laboratory staff and projects, working within a fast-paced consulting environment and with demonstrated ability to enact strategies to meet project deadlines.

This is a full-time permanent position based out of our London, Ontario office.

Salary will be commensurate with experience (starting at $89,964.32 to $95,587.09 per annum, based on a 40 hour work week).

**Work Experience**:

- Minimum 5 years’ experience managing employees and technical deliverables within a laboratory setting in an archaeological setting, preferable in cultural resource management.

**Responsibilities**:

- Development of Laboratory Processes and Procedures
- Creation and implementation of templates, policies and procedures
- Coordinate and conduct quality control on processes and deliverables
- Contribute to corporate business strategies
- Change management
- High-level health & safety oversight of laboratory operations
- Staff Management
- Recruitment and hiring
- Staff project assignments and time tracking
- Employee professional and leadership development
- Performance tracking and management
- Issue mediation and resolution
- Laboratory Project Management
- Coordination and general supervision of Laboratory projects
- Project scheduling and progress tracking
- Budget preparation, tracking and remediation
- Status and issues reporting
- Management of Artifact Collections and Transfers
- Development and implementation of collections transfer process
- Supervision of staff undertaking preparation of collections
- Management of collections database

**Qualifications and Skills**:

- Expertise in laboratory operations and management
- Expertise in artifact processing and analysis
- Leadership and change management skills, including teamwork and relationship building
- Strength in accuracy and attention to detail and timelines
- Ability to think critically and strategically, both short and long term as well as proactively
- A strong customer focus, both internal and external
- Business alignment and fiscal accountability
- Organized, adaptable, with a high-degree of autonomy and self-motivation

**How To Apply**:
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