Team Leadership and Operations Management:

• Lead, mentor, and manage the Lab Services Team (2–3 members), planning and overseeing day-to-day activities.

• With the team, ensure delivery of core services to the Unit: cleaning and sterilisation of labware, preparation of buffers and media, consumables logistics, and other essential support for wet-lab activities.

• Facilitate communication and coordination between the team, research groups, and service units (e.g. building maintenance, health & safety, IT, administration).

• Organise and chair relevant meetings to ensure effective coordination and communication.

Shared Scientific Equipment Coordination

• Maintain and oversee shared scientific instruments such as, but not limited to, FPLC systems, spectrophotometers, centrifuges, laminar flow hoods, plate readers.

• Ensure routine maintenance, calibration, and operability of instruments.

• Design and provide training sessions on scientific equipment usage and best practices.

• Maintain and update technical documentation and user guidelines.

Scientific and Strategic Contributions

• Monitor emerging technologies and evolving research needs to identify opportunities for upgrading or introducing new infrastructure or new technologies.

• Continuously improve workflows and protocols for greater efficiency of Unit operations.

• Drive knowledge sharing by organising and maintaining online resources and hosting training events such as workshops, user days, and equipment demonstrations to promote best practices and highlight emerging technologies.

• Liaise with other EMBL sites and partner institutes in Grenoble to facilitate access to specialised instrumentation and foster collaboration.

• Support the onboarding of new groups at EMBL, including support in negotiations with vendors of equipment and reagents.

Administration and Budgeting

• Oversee budgets for shared consumables, reagents, and equipment.

• Coordinate purchases, negotiate with vendors, and manage supplier relationships.

• Contribute to the recruitment and onboarding of new technical staff.

• Participate in planning and coordinating lab space reorganisations and renovations.

• Maintain laboratory inventory and manage equipment maintenance contracts, ensuring compliance and proper documentation.

• Manage and provide annual reports on contracts and equipment to the Head of EMBL Grenoble.

Operational Flexibility

• Provide hands-on support to the Lab Support Team as needed.

Carry out additional tasks related to Lab Services as requested by the Head of Unit.

Optional

• Contract length: 3 years (renewable to a maximum of 9 years).

• Salary: Monthly salary from 4.023,79 EUR after tax, and before personal pension and insurance contributions (12.05%) plus other paid benefits.

• Financial incentives: Salary free of income tax, Monthly family, child and non-resident allowances, annual salary review, pension scheme, death benefit, long-term care, accident-at-work and unemployment insurances

• Flexible working arrangements

• Private medical insurance for you and your immediate family (including all prescriptions and generous dental & optical cover)

• Generous time off: 30 days annual leave per year, in addition to public holidays

• Relocation package including installation grant (if applicable)

• Campus life: Free shuttle bus (select sites), on-site library, subsidised on-site gym and cafeteria, casual dress code, extensive sports and social club activities (on campus and remotely)

• Family benefits: Kindergarten (Heidelberg), 10 days of child sick leave, generous paid maternity/parental leave and monthly family & child allowances

• Benefits for international newcomers: Visa exemption, education grant for private schooling, financial support to travel back to your home country every second year and a monthly non-resident allowance.

You will be responsible for ensuring the smooth, reliable, and efficient operation of EMBL Grenoble’s scientific instruments, infrastructure, and laboratory services.

This is a key role at the heart of our research unit: you will directly enable scientific excellence by ensuring that our scientists have access to well-maintained shared equipment, high-quality reagents and consumables, and seamless technical support.

You will also anticipate future needs, contribute strategically to the planning of new infrastructure, and support the purchase and integration of new instruments.

You will manage, mentor, and inspire the Lab Services Team (currently two members), while working closely with facility managers, technicians, administrative staff, and the Health & Safety Officer.

You will report directly to the Head of EMBL Grenoble.

Submit your application including:

• A cover letter, written in English, outlining your motivation and relevant experience and reflecting your own voice.

We are genuinely interested in understanding why you see this as the right next step in your career and whether you are prepared to relocate to Grenoble.

• Your full CV in English.

• Contact information for at least two referees

EMBL is curiosity-driven, community-oriented and international.

As an inclusive, equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity enables us to collaborate more effectively and be innovative in our approaches.

We are, therefore, committed to creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation.

We encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing team – we believe that success is built on having teams whose backgrounds and personal experiences reflect the diversity of the populations that our science serves.

We actively encourage applications from all genders and cultures, ethnic groups and all demographics to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights at this transformational point in our people strategy.

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