Director of the Student Design Center
Trine University · Angola, IN · 1 mo ago
Art & CreativeFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes Summary, Essential Duties and Responsibilities, Education and/or Experience (Required/Preferred), Outstanding Benefits, Salary. We must not repeat job title as heading. Use for section headings. Use
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose. Do not include boilerplate like EEO etc. Remove duplicated lines. Ensure we only include sections with real content.
We need to preserve all substantive info. Let's extract.
Summary paragraph: "The Allen School of Engineering and Computing invites applications for the Student Design Center Director. The Director will provide college-wide leadership for engineering laboratories and the Student Design Center (SDC). The Director is responsible for laboratory safety, technician supervision and prioritization, controlled access, major equipment, machining operations, structural testing, large-scale experimental setups, and consistent laboratory practices across the Allen School. The Director supports academic programs, capstone projects, student organizations, faculty research, and approved external projects."
That's prose.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: broken into subsections with percentages. We can treat each bullet as list items. Could group under a heading "Responsibilities". Use
- . Each duty maybe separate.
List items:
- Laboratory Leadership and Staff Supervision — 25%: Supervise, coordinate, and evaluate the college’s laboratory technicians; Allocate technical support according to safety, instructional schedules, equipment availability, and college priorities; Coordinate laboratory readiness across departments; Develop annual operating, maintenance, and capital-equipment plans; Maintain clear boundaries among technician work, faculty responsibilities, IT, and Facilities.
- SDC Operations and Major Equipment — 25%: Direct daily operation of the Student Design Center; Oversee controlled work areas, machining equipment, fabrication systems, reaction floor, overhead crane, rigging, structural-testing systems, and other high-risk equipment; Support machining and fabrication primarily for capstone projects and approved student organizations; Plan and assist with large-scale mechanical and civil engineering experimental setups; Coordinate equipment installation, commissioning, inspection, preventive maintenance, service, and decommissioning in conjunction with laboratory technicians; Manage relationships with vendors, contractors, inspectors, and service providers.
- Safety, Access, and Compliance — 25%: Establish and enforce college-wide laboratory and SDC safety procedures; Develop equipment-specific training and user-certification requirements; Authorize, restrict, or suspend access when unsafe conditions exist; Maintain training, inspection, incident, and equipment-authorization records; Coordinate OSHA-related practices, machine guarding, lockout/tagout, lifting and rigging, compressed gases, emergency procedures, and personal protective equipment; Lead incident review and corrective-action processes; Coordinate with Laboratory Safety Committee, Facilities, Security, and other university offices.
- Academic and Project Support — 20%: Coordinate technical support for scheduled laboratories, senior design, student organizations, research, and approved industry projects; Assist faculty with safe implementation of unusual, large-scale, or high-risk experiments; Provide structured student supervision and equipment guidance in controlled SDC areas; Ensure that experimental setups are feasible, safe, and appropriately scheduled.
- Administration — 5%: Manage assigned budgets, purchasing, inventories, service agreements, and equipment records; Prepare utilization, maintenance, safety, and staffing reports; Recommend laboratory policies and capital priorities to the dean.
Education and/or Experience: Required Qualifications list and Preferred Qualifications list.
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, engineering technology, industrial technology, laboratory management, occupational safety, or a closely related field.
- Substantial experience managing engineering laboratories, manufacturing operations, technical facilities, or comparable environments.
- Experience supervising technical personnel and prioritizing work across multiple users.
- Demonstrated knowledge of machining, fabrication, mechanical testing, equipment maintenance, and occupational safety.
- Ability to communicate effectively with faculty, students, staff, vendors, and contractors.
Preferred:
- Master’s degree or relevant professional certification.
- Experience in a university engineering environment.
- Experience with CNC machining, structural testing, cranes and rigging, machine guarding, and lockout/tagout.
- OSHA, first-aid, forklift, crane, rigging, or related safety credentials.
- Experience developing training, certification, and controlled-access programs.
Outstanding Benefits: list of benefits.
- Health – medical, dental, vision, flex spending, HSA accounts
- Life Insurance – a variety of voluntary life options are available along with an employer paid employee life policy valued at 1½ times annual salary
- Financial Insurance – employer paid Long Term Disability and voluntary Short-Term Disability, Accident, Hospital Indemnity, and Critical Illness options are available
- Paid vacation and sick time
- Retirement – after one year of full-time service you are eligible for an employer contribution of 5% and up to an additional 5% employer match
- Education – after 6 months of full-time service, undergraduate education benefits are available for employee, spouse, and dependent children
Salary: "The salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications." This is vague; we should not create a Pay section if it's just "commensurate with experience". The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Benefits we have actual content, so we include Benefits. Pay: the posting says salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications. That's not a specific number or range; it's vague. According to rule: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Since it's just "competitive and commensurate with experience", that's filler; we should not create a Pay section. So we omit Pay.
Schedule: not mentioned, omit.
Thus sections: About the role (maybe Summary), Responsibilities, Qualifications (maybe split Required and Preferred?), Benefits. Could also have Education and Experience as Qualifications.
We need headings: use
. For each section.
We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. So we can use "About the role" for summary.
Responsibilities heading.
Qualifications heading (maybe split into Required and Preferred as subheadings? But we only allowed for section headings; we could still use for Required and Preferred as sub-sections? The instruction: use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It suggests we can have headings like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. So we could have "Required Qualifications" and "Preferred Qualifications" as separate headings? They are both under Qualifications. Might be okay to have two headings: "Required Qualifications" and "Preferred Qualifications". Both are . That seems fine.
Benefits heading.
We must not include any filler like "commensurate with experience". Already omitted.
Now construct HTML.
We'll need
for prose paragraphs (summary). For lists,
- .
Make sure to preserve all details.
Let's craft.
Section About the role:
About the role
...summary...
Responsibilities: Responsibilities
with each major duty as - containing sub-items maybe as further
? The instruction: Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. It doesn't forbid nested lists. Could keep each duty as a
- and inside we can have
for sub-items. That's still a list. We'll do that.
Qualifications: We'll have two headings.
Required Qualifications: Required Qualifications
each bullet.
Preferred Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications
each bullet.
Benefits: Benefits
each bullet.
Make sure to preserve exact phrasing.
Let's copy text precisely.
Summary paragraph: "The Allen School of Engineering and Computing invites applications for the Student Design Center Director. The Director will provide college-wide leadership for engineering laboratories and the Student Design Center (SDC). The Director is responsible for laboratory safety, technician supervision and prioritization, controlled access, major equipment, machining operations, structural testing, large-scale experimental setups, and consistent laboratory practices across the Allen School. The Director supports academic programs, capstone projects, student organizations, faculty research, and approved external projects."
Now duties:
I'll rewrite each bullet preserving content.
Laboratory Leadership and Staff Supervision — 25%:
- Supervise, coordinate, and evaluate the college’s laboratory technicians.
- Allocate technical support according to safety, instructional schedules, equipment availability, and college priorities.
- Coordinate laboratory readiness across departments.
- Develop annual operating, maintenance, and capital-equipment plans.
- Maintain clear boundaries among technician work, faculty responsibilities, IT, and Facilities.
SDC Operations and Major Equipment — 25%:
- Direct daily operation of the Student Design Center.
- Oversee controlled work areas, machining equipment, fabrication systems, reaction floor, overhead crane, rigging, structural-testing systems, and other high-risk equipment.
- Support machining and fabrication primarily for capstone projects and approved student organizations.
- Plan and assist with large-scale mechanical and civil engineering experimental setups.
- Coordinate equipment installation, commissioning, inspection, preventive maintenance, service, and decommissioning in conjunction with laboratory technicians.
- Manage relationships with vendors, contractors, inspectors, and service providers.
Safety, Access, and Compliance — 25%:
- Establish and enforce college-wide laboratory and SDC safety procedures.
- Develop equipment-specific training and user-certification requirements.
- Authorize, restrict, or suspend access when unsafe conditions exist.
- Maintain training, inspection, incident, and equipment-authorization records.
- Coordinate OSHA-related practices, machine guarding, lockout/tagout, lifting and rigging, compressed gases, emergency procedures, and personal protective equipment.
- Lead incident review and corrective-action processes.
- Coordinate with Laboratory Safety Committee, Facilities, Security, and other university offices.
Academic and Project Support — 20%:
- Coordinate technical support for scheduled laboratories, senior design, student organizations, research, and approved industry projects.
- Assist faculty with safe implementation of unusual, large-scale, or high-risk experiments.
- Provide structured student supervision and equipment guidance in controlled SDC areas.
- Ensure that experimental setups are feasible, safe, and appropriately scheduled.
Administration — 5%:
- Manage assigned budgets, purchasing, inventories, service agreements, and equipment records.
- Prepare utilization, maintenance, safety, and staffing reports.
- Recommend laboratory policies and capital priorities to the dean.
Now Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, engineering technology, industrial technology, laboratory management, occupational safety, or a closely related field.
- Substantial experience managing engineering laboratories, manufacturing operations, technical facilities, or comparable environments.
- Experience supervising technical personnel and prioritizing work across multiple users.
- Demonstrated knowledge of machining, fabrication, mechanical testing, equipment maintenance, and occupational safety.
- Ability to communicate effectively with faculty, students, staff, vendors, and contractors.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree or relevant professional certification.
- Experience in a university engineering environment.
- Experience with CNC machining, structural testing, cranes and rigging, machine guarding, and lockout/tagout.
- OSHA, first-aid, forklift, crane, rigging, or related safety credentials.
- Experience developing training, certification, and controlled-access programs.
Benefits:
- Health – medical, dental, vision, flex spending, HSA accounts
- Life Insurance – a variety of voluntary life options are available along with an employer paid employee life policy valued at 1½ times annual salary
- Financial Insurance – employer paid Long Term Disability and voluntary Short-Term Disability, Accident, Hospital Indemnity, and Critical Illness options are available
- Paid vacation and sick time
- Retirement – after
for prose. Do not include boilerplate like EEO etc. Remove duplicated lines. Ensure we only include sections with real content. We need to preserve all substantive info. Let's extract. Summary paragraph: "The Allen School of Engineering and Computing invites applications for the Student Design Center Director. The Director will provide college-wide leadership for engineering laboratories and the Student Design Center (SDC). The Director is responsible for laboratory safety, technician supervision and prioritization, controlled access, major equipment, machining operations, structural testing, large-scale experimental setups, and consistent laboratory practices across the Allen School. The Director supports academic programs, capstone projects, student organizations, faculty research, and approved external projects." That's prose. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: broken into subsections with percentages. We can treat each bullet as list items. Could group under a heading "Responsibilities". Use
- . Each duty maybe separate.
List items:
- Laboratory Leadership and Staff Supervision — 25%: Supervise, coordinate, and evaluate the college’s laboratory technicians; Allocate technical support according to safety, instructional schedules, equipment availability, and college priorities; Coordinate laboratory readiness across departments; Develop annual operating, maintenance, and capital-equipment plans; Maintain clear boundaries among technician work, faculty responsibilities, IT, and Facilities.
- SDC Operations and Major Equipment — 25%: Direct daily operation of the Student Design Center; Oversee controlled work areas, machining equipment, fabrication systems, reaction floor, overhead crane, rigging, structural-testing systems, and other high-risk equipment; Support machining and fabrication primarily for capstone projects and approved student organizations; Plan and assist with large-scale mechanical and civil engineering experimental setups; Coordinate equipment installation, commissioning, inspection, preventive maintenance, service, and decommissioning in conjunction with laboratory technicians; Manage relationships with vendors, contractors, inspectors, and service providers.
- Safety, Access, and Compliance — 25%: Establish and enforce college-wide laboratory and SDC safety procedures; Develop equipment-specific training and user-certification requirements; Authorize, restrict, or suspend access when unsafe conditions exist; Maintain training, inspection, incident, and equipment-authorization records; Coordinate OSHA-related practices, machine guarding, lockout/tagout, lifting and rigging, compressed gases, emergency procedures, and personal protective equipment; Lead incident review and corrective-action processes; Coordinate with Laboratory Safety Committee, Facilities, Security, and other university offices.
- Academic and Project Support — 20%: Coordinate technical support for scheduled laboratories, senior design, student organizations, research, and approved industry projects; Assist faculty with safe implementation of unusual, large-scale, or high-risk experiments; Provide structured student supervision and equipment guidance in controlled SDC areas; Ensure that experimental setups are feasible, safe, and appropriately scheduled.
- Administration — 5%: Manage assigned budgets, purchasing, inventories, service agreements, and equipment records; Prepare utilization, maintenance, safety, and staffing reports; Recommend laboratory policies and capital priorities to the dean.
Education and/or Experience: Required Qualifications list and Preferred Qualifications list.
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, engineering technology, industrial technology, laboratory management, occupational safety, or a closely related field.
- Substantial experience managing engineering laboratories, manufacturing operations, technical facilities, or comparable environments.
- Experience supervising technical personnel and prioritizing work across multiple users.
- Demonstrated knowledge of machining, fabrication, mechanical testing, equipment maintenance, and occupational safety.
- Ability to communicate effectively with faculty, students, staff, vendors, and contractors.
Preferred:
- Master’s degree or relevant professional certification.
- Experience in a university engineering environment.
- Experience with CNC machining, structural testing, cranes and rigging, machine guarding, and lockout/tagout.
- OSHA, first-aid, forklift, crane, rigging, or related safety credentials.
- Experience developing training, certification, and controlled-access programs.
Outstanding Benefits: list of benefits.
- Health – medical, dental, vision, flex spending, HSA accounts
- Life Insurance – a variety of voluntary life options are available along with an employer paid employee life policy valued at 1½ times annual salary
- Financial Insurance – employer paid Long Term Disability and voluntary Short-Term Disability, Accident, Hospital Indemnity, and Critical Illness options are available
- Paid vacation and sick time
- Retirement – after one year of full-time service you are eligible for an employer contribution of 5% and up to an additional 5% employer match
- Education – after 6 months of full-time service, undergraduate education benefits are available for employee, spouse, and dependent children
Salary: "The salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications." This is vague; we should not create a Pay section if it's just "commensurate with experience". The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Benefits we have actual content, so we include Benefits. Pay: the posting says salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications. That's not a specific number or range; it's vague. According to rule: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Since it's just "competitive and commensurate with experience", that's filler; we should not create a Pay section. So we omit Pay.
Schedule: not mentioned, omit.
Thus sections: About the role (maybe Summary), Responsibilities, Qualifications (maybe split Required and Preferred?), Benefits. Could also have Education and Experience as Qualifications.
We need headings: use
. For each section. We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. So we can use "About the role" for summary. Responsibilities heading. Qualifications heading (maybe split into Required and Preferred as subheadings? But we only allowed
for section headings; we could still use
for Required and Preferred as sub-sections? The instruction: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It suggests we can have headings like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. So we could have "Required Qualifications" and "Preferred Qualifications" as separate headings? They are both under Qualifications. Might be okay to have two headings: "Required Qualifications" and "Preferred Qualifications". Both are
. That seems fine. Benefits heading. We must not include any filler like "commensurate with experience". Already omitted. Now construct HTML. We'll need
for prose paragraphs (summary). For lists,
- .
Make sure to preserve all details.
Let's craft.
Section About the role:
About the role
...summary...
Responsibilities:Responsibilities
- with each major duty as
- containing sub-items maybe as further
- ? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. It doesn't forbid nested lists. Could keep each duty as a
- and inside we can have
- for sub-items. That's still a list. We'll do that.
Qualifications: We'll have two headings.
Required Qualifications:
Required Qualifications
- each bullet.
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications
- each bullet.
Benefits:
Benefits
- each bullet.
Make sure to preserve exact phrasing.
Let's copy text precisely.
Summary paragraph: "The Allen School of Engineering and Computing invites applications for the Student Design Center Director. The Director will provide college-wide leadership for engineering laboratories and the Student Design Center (SDC). The Director is responsible for laboratory safety, technician supervision and prioritization, controlled access, major equipment, machining operations, structural testing, large-scale experimental setups, and consistent laboratory practices across the Allen School. The Director supports academic programs, capstone projects, student organizations, faculty research, and approved external projects."
Now duties:
I'll rewrite each bullet preserving content.
Laboratory Leadership and Staff Supervision — 25%:
- Supervise, coordinate, and evaluate the college’s laboratory technicians.
- Allocate technical support according to safety, instructional schedules, equipment availability, and college priorities.
- Coordinate laboratory readiness across departments.
- Develop annual operating, maintenance, and capital-equipment plans.
- Maintain clear boundaries among technician work, faculty responsibilities, IT, and Facilities.
SDC Operations and Major Equipment — 25%:
- Direct daily operation of the Student Design Center.
- Oversee controlled work areas, machining equipment, fabrication systems, reaction floor, overhead crane, rigging, structural-testing systems, and other high-risk equipment.
- Support machining and fabrication primarily for capstone projects and approved student organizations.
- Plan and assist with large-scale mechanical and civil engineering experimental setups.
- Coordinate equipment installation, commissioning, inspection, preventive maintenance, service, and decommissioning in conjunction with laboratory technicians.
- Manage relationships with vendors, contractors, inspectors, and service providers.
Safety, Access, and Compliance — 25%:
- Establish and enforce college-wide laboratory and SDC safety procedures.
- Develop equipment-specific training and user-certification requirements.
- Authorize, restrict, or suspend access when unsafe conditions exist.
- Maintain training, inspection, incident, and equipment-authorization records.
- Coordinate OSHA-related practices, machine guarding, lockout/tagout, lifting and rigging, compressed gases, emergency procedures, and personal protective equipment.
- Lead incident review and corrective-action processes.
- Coordinate with Laboratory Safety Committee, Facilities, Security, and other university offices.
Academic and Project Support — 20%:
- Coordinate technical support for scheduled laboratories, senior design, student organizations, research, and approved industry projects.
- Assist faculty with safe implementation of unusual, large-scale, or high-risk experiments.
- Provide structured student supervision and equipment guidance in controlled SDC areas.
- Ensure that experimental setups are feasible, safe, and appropriately scheduled.
Administration — 5%:
- Manage assigned budgets, purchasing, inventories, service agreements, and equipment records.
- Prepare utilization, maintenance, safety, and staffing reports.
- Recommend laboratory policies and capital priorities to the dean.
Now Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, engineering technology, industrial technology, laboratory management, occupational safety, or a closely related field.
- Substantial experience managing engineering laboratories, manufacturing operations, technical facilities, or comparable environments.
- Experience supervising technical personnel and prioritizing work across multiple users.
- Demonstrated knowledge of machining, fabrication, mechanical testing, equipment maintenance, and occupational safety.
- Ability to communicate effectively with faculty, students, staff, vendors, and contractors.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree or relevant professional certification.
- Experience in a university engineering environment.
- Experience with CNC machining, structural testing, cranes and rigging, machine guarding, and lockout/tagout.
- OSHA, first-aid, forklift, crane, rigging, or related safety credentials.
- Experience developing training, certification, and controlled-access programs.
Benefits:
- Health – medical, dental, vision, flex spending, HSA accounts
- Life Insurance – a variety of voluntary life options are available along with an employer paid employee life policy valued at 1½ times annual salary
- Financial Insurance – employer paid Long Term Disability and voluntary Short-Term Disability, Accident, Hospital Indemnity, and Critical Illness options are available
- Paid vacation and sick time
- Retirement – after
- containing sub-items maybe as further
- .
Make sure to preserve all details.
Let's craft.
Section About the role: