Lab Coordinator

MITRE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 62,000 - 93,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia, is seeking an Administrative Support professional for our Immersive Experimentation Department. You will manage scheduling, labs logistics, and coordination with staff and sponsors to keep rapid prototyping environments running smoothly.

The role emphasizes strong communication, multitasking, on-site presence three days per week, and attention to detail in maintaining lab reservations and compliance with security requirements.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 3 years related experience with a High School Diploma or equivalent in education, or 5 years' experience and an Associate degree, or equivalent combination of education and related work experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experienced with calendar management.

Responsibilities

• Manage scheduling and logistics for multiple physical laboratories managed by MITRE's Immersive Experimentation Department.
• Maintain and update lab reservation systems.
• Deconflict and coordinate prioritization of spaces and resources.
• Facilitate coordination and communication between laboratory management, technical staff, and lab requestors.
• Provide administrative assistance for maintaining laboratories.
• Support cybersecurity and physical security compliance of laboratories.
• Support participant sourcing and purchase requests.

Skills

Calendar management

Event planning

Attention to detail

Multi-tasking

On-site

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We're a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation's health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future.

Department Summary

MITRE's Immersive Experimentation department builds extensible, scalable, real-time distributed simulation capabilities used primarily for immersive experimentation and rapid prototyping to address our sponsors' missions. Our premier laboratories bring together a broad set of integrated capabilities for demonstration, experimentation, and immersive visualization. These labs are extensible, scalable, real-time distributed simulation environments based on an open, layered architecture. We leverage digital twins, game engines, extended reality, and artificial intelligence to conduct rapid prototyping and experimentation to address complex systems engineering challenges and to conduct scientific research. They are environments capable of handling a range of exploratory concepts, while also being realistic enough to provide a high-quality user experience.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Manage scheduling and logistics for multiple physical laboratories managed by MITRE's Immersive Experimentation Department.
• Maintain and update lab reservation systems.
• Deconflict and coordinate prioritization of spaces and resources.
• Facilitate coordination and communication between laboratory management, technical staff, and lab requestors.
• Provide administrative assistance for maintaining laboratories.
• Support cybersecurity and physical security compliance of laboratories.
• Support participant sourcing and purchase requests.

Basic Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 3 years of related experience with a High School Diploma or equivalent in education, or 5 years' experience and an Associate degree, or equivalent combination of education and related work experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experienced with calendar management.
• Experienced with event planning and schedule deconfliction.
• Demonstrated superior attention to detail and prioritization with the ability to successfully multi-task.
• Flexibility, adaptability, and ability to deal with ambiguous situations.
• This position requires a minimum of 3 days per week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience supporting a technical oriented organization.
• Ability to work effectively as a team player under time and work constraints with minimal supervision and tactfully with all levels of management.
• Familiarity with human-in-the-loop experimentation and experimental conduct.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to support diverse backgrounds.
• Exercise independent judgment and discretion consistent with corporate objectives, philosophies, and broad policies.

Clearance Requirement

None

Post-Hire Clearance Requirement

Not Applicable

Salary compensation range and midpoint

$62,000 - $77,500 - $93,000 Annual

Work Location Type

Onsite

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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