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Engineering - Architecture
Senior Technologist, Laboratory Support
Engineering - Architecture
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Remote / WFH
University of Ottawa
Job Description
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Posting Reason:
New Position
Job Type:
Employee
Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments):
N/A
Job Family:
Laboratory Support
# of Open Positions:
1
Faculty/Service - Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Technologists
Campus:
Main Campus
Union Affiliation:
SSUO
Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):
2026/06/25
Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):
2026/07/06
Hours per week:
35
Salary Grade:
SSUO Grade 09
Salary Range:
$72 437,00 - $91 502,00
About the Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering strives to provide a learning environment that promotes excellence and innovation, ethical practice and responsibility towards society. Our workplace will challenge, energize and motivate you to be your very best while providing opportunities for career growth and professional development. Our work makes a world of difference in the lives of our students, who will become the next generation of leaders and change makers of our society. Our dynamic community is dedicated to building innovations that will not only help the advancement of technology, but solutions that will revolutionize the industry. We look forward to making the future TOGETHER!
Position purpose:
Reporting to the Lead Technician, Laboratory Support, this position performs a variety of technical activities in support of clients, including students, teaching assistants, faculty members, and other scientific or engineering professionals, in an assigned group of specialized scientific teaching lab infrastructures and research equipment. Provides complex technical advice, support, and training to clients in the research, analysis, design, development, production, set-up, testing, operation, and maintenance of laboratory systems and research instrumentation to the specification of the department or faculty’s curriculum or research requirements in order to achieve the experimental objectives and ensure safe working practices. The work is performed with minimal supervision, under general guidelines, and requires full awareness of the various technologies used. This position is intended to support both chemical engineering research and teaching laboratories.
In this role, your responsibilities will include:
Technical Support: Meets with clients to identify and analyze their needs for special purpose complex scientific/research lab equipment relating to selection of relevant instrumentation and data acquisition hardware. Develops software program code, mainly using National Instruments LabVIEW software to interface with data acquisition hardware networks. Maintains instruments and data acquisition equipment located in designated laboratories by regular maintenance for performance and accuracy. Designs, assembles, installs, tests, maintains and repairs assigned laboratory equipment and materials as well as research equipment and instrumentation meet specific client needs and to ensure accurate and proper functionality. Analyzes and diagnoses the causes of lab malfunctions and carries out the required repair actions in order to maintain lab functionality for clients. Under the direction of the supervisor or faculty, carries out applied research related to experimental methods in fields related to the assigned labs.
Training: Trains, performs demonstrations for, and supports teaching assistants and students as well as research personnel in the use of lab equipment and materials to improve end-user proficiency. Promotes and supervises the responsible use of all lab equipment and materials to contribute to the safety of all users and to safeguard the value of the University’s assets. May interact with students and teaching assistants to provide support beyond demonstrations that assists with the description of concepts and the analysis of data to ensure that experimental objectives are successfully achieved. Evaluates components of student performance and understanding as part of the grading process.
Posting Reason:
New Position
Job Type:
Employee
Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments):
N/A
Job Family:
Laboratory Support
# of Open Positions:
1
Faculty/Service - Department:
Department of Chemical and Biological Technologists
Campus:
Main Campus
Union Affiliation:
SSUO
Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):
2026/06/25
Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):
2026/07/06
Hours per week:
35
Salary Grade:
SSUO Grade 09
Salary Range:
$72 437,00 - $91 502,00
About the Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering strives to provide a learning environment that promotes excellence and innovation, ethical practice and responsibility towards society. Our workplace will challenge, energize and motivate you to be your very best while providing opportunities for career growth and professional development. Our work makes a world of difference in the lives of our students, who will become the next generation of leaders and change makers of our society. Our dynamic community is dedicated to building innovations that will not only help the advancement of technology, but solutions that will revolutionize the industry. We look forward to making the future TOGETHER!
Position purpose:
Reporting to the Lead Technician, Laboratory Support, this position performs a variety of technical activities in support of clients, including students, teaching assistants, faculty members, and other scientific or engineering professionals, in an assigned group of specialized scientific teaching lab infrastructures and research equipment. Provides complex technical advice, support, and training to clients in the research, analysis, design, development, production, set-up, testing, operation, and maintenance of laboratory systems and research instrumentation to the specification of the department or faculty’s curriculum or research requirements in order to achieve the experimental objectives and ensure safe working practices. The work is performed with minimal supervision, under general guidelines, and requires full awareness of the various technologies used. This position is intended to support both chemical engineering research and teaching laboratories.
In this role, your responsibilities will include:
Technical Support: Meets with clients to identify and analyze their needs for special purpose complex scientific/research lab equipment relating to selection of relevant instrumentation and data acquisition hardware. Develops software program code, mainly using National Instruments LabVIEW software to interface with data acquisition hardware networks. Maintains instruments and data acquisition equipment located in designated laboratories by regular maintenance for performance and accuracy. Designs, assembles, installs, tests, maintains and repairs assigned laboratory equipment and materials as well as research equipment and instrumentation meet specific client needs and to ensure accurate and proper functionality. Analyzes and diagnoses the causes of lab malfunctions and carries out the required repair actions in order to maintain lab functionality for clients. Under the direction of the supervisor or faculty, carries out applied research related to experimental methods in fields related to the assigned labs.
Training: Trains, performs demonstrations for, and supports teaching assistants and students as well as research personnel in the use of lab equipment and materials to improve end-user proficiency. Promotes and supervises the responsible use of all lab equipment and materials to contribute to the safety of all users and to safeguard the value of the University’s assets. May interact with students and teaching assistants to provide support beyond demonstrations that assists with the description of concepts and the analysis of data to ensure that experimental objectives are successfully achieved. Evaluates components of student performance and understanding as part of the grading process.
