Job Title

Department

Worker Type

Pay Type

Benefit Eligible

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Essential Duties:    

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Assist in ongoing projects by preparing common laboratory reagents (e.g., scope substrates, mechanistic model compounds).
• Conduct basic electrochemical synthesis experiments strictly adhering to
• established protocols.
• Assist with training undergraduate students on different laboratory safety and research protocols under the supervision of the laboratory PI.
• Help maintain a clean and safe working environment in the laboratory.
• Assist with other assigned duties.

Minimum Qualifications:    

Required: Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, or related field. 

Preferred Qualifications:    

• Demonstrated research experience in a faculty-led laboratory.
• Basic training organic synthesis and have engaged in research involving organic electrosynthesis techniques within the past three years.
• Familiarity with high throughput experimentation.
• Familiarity with inert atmosphere techniques.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:  

• The ideal candidate should possess excellent communication skills and work harmoniously in a laboratory with a diverse group of researchers at different education levels (including undergraduate and graduate students).
• Other desirable skills include prior research experience in maintenance of inert atmosphere glovebox and gas chromatography.
• Demonstrated ability to write project reports or prepare publication manuscripts.
• Experience with supervising/training junior undergraduate students.

Additional Position Information (if applicable)

Required Application Documents

Special Instructions (if applicable)

Additional Information

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