Research Technologist II - 005130

Essential Functions

• Assists or co-leads research projects on socio-environmental topics to include planning and executing fieldwork, analyzing data, writing reports, and engaging stakeholders.
• Coincides interdisciplinary research and education programs and activities to include meeting planning, recruiting participants and partners, and outreach.
• Supervises and participates in collecting, recording, and preparing laboratory specimens and cultures for research experiments.
• Conducts technical and very complex laboratory research activities involving the analysis and evaluation of research data and independently preparing reports describing research results using a variety of complex statistical measures.
• Conducts technical and very complex chemical and biological analyses requiring considerable knowledge of associated properties and characteristics of specimens used.
• Aids in the planning of experimental protocols and may adapt new techniques to experiments.
• Supervises and trains laboratory assistants and lower-level technical positions.
• Might design and direct the construction of laboratory research equipment.
• Maintains inventory records of laboratory equipment and supplies and initiates purchase orders to replenish supplies.

Qualifications

• Experience related to environmental science, policy or management is highly preferred.

Job Description Summary

The University of South Alabama's department of Marine and Environmental Sciences is seeking to hire a Research Technologist II. Interested candidates should apply to be considered.