Supervisor Laboratory Senior Physics

Manages and supervises the physics teaching laboratories . Supports the implementation of teaching responsibilities of graduate teaching assistants and undergraduate teaching assistants. Manages and supports the departments general teaching responsibilities as well as outreach opportunities.

• Supervises operation of physics help room and laboratory instruction, including creating assignments, organizing course schedules and developing syllabi.
• Manages and prepares equipment for laboratory classes. Preparing weekly experiments for each lab, repairing or seeing to the repair of damaged equipment, and the purchase of new equipment.
• Teaches laboratories classes and implement special make-up labs for students as necessary.
• Trains teaching assistants working in the physics laboratories and physics help room.
• Organizes and staffs outreach opportunities for the department.
• Prepares reports of lab operations and evaluations of graduate and undergraduates with teaching responsibilities. This includes developing effective tools for evaluation.
• Manages equipment in physics preparatory room including the repair and purchase of new materials as needed by the department.
• Implements a regular cycle of evaluating of physics laboratories, including development of new laboratories or revision of current laboratories as necessary.
• Hires, trains, evaluates, and supervises student employees.

Minimum qualifications based upon job documentation and industry best practices. Any current employees not meeting these qualifications will be grandfathered until they move to a different job.

• Master's degree in related field from an accredited institution.

• Two years' relevant experience
• Laboratory supervision experience; Providing guidance to students or other employees.

Light work with some physical demands such as continuously lifting or moving materials less than 25 pounds, but rarely moving more than 25 to 50 pounds.

Work is generally performed in a well-lit, temperature-controlled indoor environment with occasional exposure to the outdoors or any number of elements.

Revised: 2022-12-12