Research Operations Mgr - Continental Scientific Drilling Facility

University of Minnesota; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Research Operations Manager to join their team at the Continental Scientific Drilling Facility. In this exciting role, you will translate scientific objectives into actionable plans while managing operations and infrastructure development. Your creativity and self-motivation will be key as you engage with a diverse scientific community and support project development. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact in a collaborative environment, ensuring that projects meet their goals through effective management and innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in project development and management.
• Strong skills in budgeting and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Translate scientific goals into actionable plans and budgets.
• Prepare operational plans and manage field activities.

Skills

Project Management

Budgeting

Operations Management

Collaboration

Documentation Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Master's Degree in a related field

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Project Management Software

Job description

About the Job

Research Operations Manager at Continental Scientific Drilling Facility (CSD)

Official job title: Research Project Specialist, job code 9742S1

We have 2 (TWO) openings for Research Operations Managers whose duties are designed to fulfill and support the CSD Facility project development and implementation roles, in collaboration with other Facility staff, particularly the Director and Senior Operations Manager. The successful candidates will be dynamic, creative, self-motivated, eager to learn, and prepared to engage with a large and diverse scientific community.

Essential Functions of the Position

1. Project development. Translate scientific goals into actionable plans and budgets. Select optimal techniques based on project requirements. Solicit, review, and align bids from commercial contractors and academic facilities. Prepare budgets, justifications, and other documentation for proposals to be submitted to project sponsors. Document and maintain records for vendor capabilities. (50%)
2. Operations management. Prepare documentation for operational plans, including contracts, shipments, permit applications, site-specific plans for health, safety, environmental and operations protocols, and others. Maintain, procure, prepare, and ship materials required for project operations. Travel to field sites to manage activities, represent the project team, train and collaborate with participants and contractors to ensure project requirements are met, track on-site activities, consumption of supplies, contractor performance, data collection, and others, and manage budgets and communicate with onsite and remote stakeholders in highly dynamic operational conditions. (30%)
3. Infrastructure development. Evaluate tools, equipment, instrumentation, cyberinfrastructure, and other resources for effectiveness and prioritize plans for improvement. Develop specific plans, budgets, and rationale for modifications and acquisitions prioritized, contributing to proposals as needed to obtain funds. Implement developments and integrate them into Facility operations. (10%)
4. Support other facility functions in the field, lab, office, and at meetings and conferences as assigned. (10%)

Please contact Anders Noren ([e-mail]) if you have any questions.