Full-Time Innovation Center Coordinator
Job Description
Position Summary:
UW Platteville invites applications for an Innovation Center Coordinator/Laboratory Manager. The Innovation Center Coordinator directs the technical activities, operations, planning, and policy development of a lab, including coordinating the activities of multiple, complex projects and staff to ensure quality control and compliance with regulations. This position will assist with the day-to-day operations of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) center.
This is a 2-year project appointment that is benefit and paid-leave eligible. Salary for this position begins at $60,000 and will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Responsibilities:
- Identifies, proposes, and implements new or revised unit operational policies and procedures in alignment with strategic initiatives and objectives
- Serves as the unit liaison to internal and external stakeholder groups providing information, making recommendations to leadership, and representing the interests of the unit
- Directs and supervises the day-to-day laboratory operations, quality control programs, and/or staff of a work unit to ensure compliance with organization and regulatory agency standards
- Monitors program budgets and expenditures
- May exercise supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 FTE or equivalent employees
- Develops and facilitates trainings regarding scientific experimentation, technical procedures, and equipment operations to various audiences
- Design Automation module for GE 1030
- Specifies, purchases, and maintains equipment and supplies for IIOT lab
- Manages the IIOT lab and liaise with IBM support team
- Works with faculty to develop hands-on experiences utilizing equipment in the labs
- Oversees independent study student projects in the lab
- Assists professors with design of experiments/sensing needs for their research
- Assists departments with design of experiments/sensing needs for hands-on learning experiences for students in courses
- Assists clients/customers with design of experiments/sensing needs for their applications
- Develops systems for cost-recovery or revenue generating activities
- Ensures electrical safety and review student projects by providing support for faculty and students in electrical wiring and safety, reviewing Senior Design (SD) projects for electrical requirements and provide electrical safety trainings to teams with “hazardous” projects, inspecting student work and ensure proper electrical review of projects before students power their prototypes, establishing best practices in assembly and wiring, and training of SD students as required
- Additional duties as assigned
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
• Master’s Degree in Engineering
• Experience in curriculum development or higher education
• Prior experience with Industrial Internet of Things
• Ability to work independently and proactively with minimal supervision
Why It’s Great to be a Pioneer:
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville, founded in 1866, offers 47 baccalaureate and 10 master’s programs. It possesses institutional strengths in middle level education, engineering, industrial technology, agriculture, criminal justice and business. The campus is located in Southwest Wisconsin’s largest and most historic community. The region offers excellent school systems, high quality medical and hospital facilities, outstanding recreational opportunities, and vibrant businesses and industries. UW-Platteville is a cultural and educational center for the Tri-State region of Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin.
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Application Deadline:
Applications must be submitted through our online applicant portal, applications due by: May 30, 2023. Applications will be accepted until the position has been filled.
How to Apply:
The following documents are required for applicant consideration:
- Letter of application addressing all required qualifications
- A current resume
- Contact information (name, telephone number, and email address) for 3 professional references.
- Additional documents as needed
We Support Diversity and Inclusion:
Our mission is to foster a diverse environment that contributes to an inclusive culture and climate by promoting critical discourse and meaningful interactions between all members of our campus community.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville is committed to recruiting, supporting and fostering a diverse, inclusive and civil community of outstanding faculty, staff and students, and is an AA/EEO Employer. A criminal background check is required for employment. Applicants must be legally entitled to work in the U.S. at time of hire.
Employment will require a criminal background check. It will also require you and your references to answer questions regarding sexual violence and sexual harassment.
How to Apply
Application Deadline: Applications must be submitted through our online applicant portal, applications due by: May 30, 2023. Applications will be accepted until the position has been filled. How to Apply: The following documents are required for applicant consideration:- Letter of application addressing all required qualifications
- A current resume
- Contact information (name, telephone number, and email address) for 3 professional references.
- Additional documents as needed
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