Molecular Lab & Field Operations Lead

CP11 University of New Hampshire; Durham (NH); On-site; USD 44,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

University of New Hampshire seeks a laboratory and field supervisor for the EMBEDDEd-NH project in Durham. The role oversees ordering, inventory, and deployment of consumables and equipment, plus supervision of molecular lab work and field collection.

Responsibilities include data curation, geospatial analyses, and environmental contaminant distribution with supervision of undergraduate and graduate students. The position supports not working during curtailment per project needs.

Qualifications

• BS with 7+ years molecular laboratory experience.
• Nucleic acid extraction from varied substrates.
• Experience running, standing up, and troubleshooting PCR, qPCR, ddPCR, metabarcoding, RT-PCR.
• GIS fluency, with mapping and analyses.
• Environmental engineering experience.
• Technical laboratory and field equipment assembly, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Experience supervising undergraduate and graduate students.

Responsibilities

• Inventory consumable stocks and ordering.
• Equipment use, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Organization of workflows.
• Metadata and pre-analytical data organization.
• Extraction, laboratory experiments, preparation for sequencing.
• Annotation and supervision of data recording.
• Field equipment ordering, setup, deployment, supervision, and maintenance.
• Fieldwork supervision and execution – tick dragging, HOBO station setup and maintenance, collection box setup.
• Curation, validation, maintenance, and marriage of metadata, field data, laboratory data, and sequence data.
• Data presentation, analysis, and geospatial data assimilation.

Skills

Nucleic acid extraction

PCR

qPCR

ddPCR

Metabarcoding

GIS

Statistical analysis

Student supervision

Environmental engineering

Laboratory equipment maintenance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

University of New Hampshire seeks a laboratory and field supervisor for the EMBEDDEd-NH project in Durham. The role oversees ordering, inventory, and deployment of consumables and equipment, plus supervision of molecular lab work and field collection.

Responsibilities include data curation, geospatial analyses, and environmental contaminant distribution with supervision of undergraduate and graduate students. The position supports not working during curtailment per project needs.