Project Manager, Metabolic Phenotyping Core

Job Summary Designing, conducting, quality controlling, analyzing, and interpreting phenotyping experiments. Scheduling personnel, space, and equipment to maximum effect. Setting up, validating, and troubleshooting specialized phenotyping platforms. Managing direct reports, ensuring effective training, scheduling, and professional development. Ensuring a safe and compliant operation. Project managing a complex and dynamic portfolio of projects. Handling fiscal responsibilities such as generating quotations, billing, and forecasting workload to develop accurate budgets. Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions Phenotyping activities (50%) Participate in all daily aspects of the core facility, demonstrating leadership, scientific, and technical expertise. Contribute to experimental design consultations, conduct testing on phenotyping platforms, maintain accurate experimental records, and ensure timely data upload to defined LIMS systems. Ensure traceability, integrity, and security of data, optimize data processing, and reduce manual intervention. Deliver data analysis and basic interpretation, synthesize data into summary packages, vignettes, progress reports, and content for grant submissions and manuscripts, with authorship on peer‑reviewed publications expected. Assure service quality by assessing processes, procedures, protocols, controls, and deliverables for accuracy and completeness. Develop testing paradigms and integrate them into CBA offerings, contribute to capital procurement activities, set up, extend capabilities of existing equipment and validate new platforms, maintain equipment, calibrate, and manage service contracts. Troubleshoot equipment and experiments and keep current in research technologies through literature review and participation in seminars, workshops, courses, and conferences. Leadership and supervision (20%) Assume line management responsibility for up to eight direct reports, typically Research Assistants or equivalent. Design and deliver consistent and comprehensive phenotyping competency and validation training. Develop and maintain accurate, high‑quality standard operating procedures that meet modern standards for research replicability. Provide structured training plans and competency forms, confirming competency through stringent validation protocols. Deliver continuous professional development tailored to each team member, ensuring clear succession planning. Conduct constructive performance dialogues, assign SMART goals aligned with the mission of the CBA, proactively manage competency and performance issues, hold staff accountable, and promote all aspects of JAX Core Values. Interfacing with RAF, Mouse Production, other Scientific Service members, and CBA Phenotyping Cores as needed. Lead effective and timely recruitment cycles to ensure staffing opportunities are fully realized. Project Management (15%) Schedule personnel, space, and equipment to maximum effect. Ensure space utilization delivers current requirements while considering future scalability. Develop and maintain a skills and training matrix that matches competency and capacity with demand. Track status and progress of every project to ensure completion of deliverables on time and within budget. Ensure successful receipt and handoff of animals and data to and from clients, and between CBA Phenotyping Cores where applicable. Maintain knowledge and competency of all necessary LIMS solutions: iLAB (project onboarding, quoting, and billing), PFS (mouse inventory management, phenotyping and data management), MPD (phenotyping data visualization and analysis), and JAXLIMS (KOMP specific). Create and track key performance indicators and QC metrics to monitor performance and data quality. Use these metrics to identify needs for remedial actions such as retraining. Administrative duties (15%) Collaborate with EHSS and the CBA Operations team to ensure a safe working environment that is compliant with all necessary regulations. Maintain an accurate and complete drug inventory. Ensure all work is authorized by IACUC and that CBA Operations documentation (AUS and RP) is current and complete. Ensure accurate and timely cost recovery for the phenotyping core: generate quotations, submit billing using defined LIMS systems, and assist in the creation and validation of item codes. Contribute to budget development through forecasting work volumes, projecting FTE requirements and operational running costs, and proposing capital expenditure. Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities BS/MS in Neuroscience, Metabolism, Preclinical Imaging, Physiology, Cardiovascular, Biology, Genetics, Animal Science or related discipline plus 6 years of relevant experience; or a PhD in the above fields with 2 years of relevant experience. Exceptional mouse handling and phenotyping skills with a deep understanding of the equipment used within the Core and a proven ability to troubleshoot equipment and experiments. Demonstrable expertise with data processing, analysis, and basic interpretation. Independent thinking, strong analytical skills, and successful project management of complex, multi‑project operations. Adaptable, positive approach to change management in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment. Superior leadership and line management skills to build and maintain a highly productive, professional, competent team with data quality at the center of all activities. Experience establishing SOPs, providing competency and validation training, and monitoring data validity to assure operations are within set tolerances for efficiency, delivery, and quality. Fiscally disciplined management of a scientific operation, preferably a core service, within IACUC guidelines and regulatory & safety standards. Excellent communication skills for contributing materials toward grant applications, writing publications, project plans, animal protocols, and interfacing with the IACUC. Education and Experience Education Required: Bachelor's Degree. Education Preferred: Doctorate Degree. Experience Required: 6 years. Experience Preferred: 2 years. Supervisory Experience Required: none required. Supervisory Experience Preferred: none required. Pay Range $65,018 - $101,081, pay is determined by years of experience. 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