Position Number: 0027431
Location: Parkville
Role type: Full-time; Continuing
Faculty: Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Department: OHS and Laboratory Management
Salary: UOM 7 – $106,432 - $115,211 p.a. plus 17% super
- Manage and ensure safe, compliant, and efficient laboratory operations across Western CHRE and Northern CHER to support research, teaching, and public health activities.
- Lead in laboratory compliance and safety, collaborating within a dynamic, cross-institutional environment to enhance impactful research and education.
- Salary packaging, subsidised health and wellbeing services, fitness and cultural clubs, Myki discounts, and a 25% discount on graduate courses to our staff and their immediate families!
About the Role
This role supports laboratory management and OHS functions at the Western Centre for Health Research and Education (Western CHRE) and Northern Centre for Health Education and Research (Northern CHER), fostering safe and effective teaching, research, and public health activities. Based primarily at Western CHRE with regular support at Northern CHER, the position manages laboratory operations, compliance, and safety programs, including purchasing, resource allocation, waste management, and licensing. Collaborating with academic and professional managers, the role ensures well-maintained facilities within a complex organizational and shared services environment.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Working with UOM/VU managers to ensure that infrastructure and facilities within the assigned areas are efficiently and effectively managed to meet the Centre’s teaching and research objectives.
- Ensuring the Centre’s activities are carried out in compliance with the relevant OHS legislation, statutes, regulations and policies.
- Maintaining strong relationships with other service delivery areas, schools and departments to ensure effective delivery of OHS support.
Who We Are Looking For
The successful candidate will demonstrate exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to consult, influence, and build strong relationships across diverse teams. They possess excellent organisational and time management abilities, effectively balancing competing demands while working independently or collaboratively. Additionally, they are adept at adopting new technologies and approaches, showing flexibility and a proactive mindset in addressing challenges.
You will also have:
- Undergraduate qualifications in a relevant discipline, such as science and OH&S.
- Extensive experience of working within a scientific or medical laboratory environment and coordination of personnel in a matrix environment.
- Demonstrated knowledge of OGTR regulatory requirements and proven experience working within a PC2 containment facility.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with proven capacity to consult, influence and build rapport with a broad range of people, and maintaining strong effective relationships.
For further information regarding responsibilities and requirements, please refer to the attached PD.
This role requires that the successful candidate must undergo and maintain an up-to-date Working with Children Check. This is essential to guarantee a secure environment for all individuals at the University. In the case the selected candidate doesn't have a valid Working with Children Check, they will be able to apply for the WWCC as part of the initial onboarding procedures.
Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. This role requires current valid work rights for Australia.
Your New Team – Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences is a diverse faculty renowned for its research excellence, teaching, training, and policy leadership across the breadth of medical, biomedical and health science fields.
Led by the Dean, Professor Jane Gunn, the faculty is Australia’s overall leader in clinical, pre-clinical and health sciences, and sits at the heart of a flourishing ecosystem of globally recognised health and biomedical organisations across Victoria. Partnerships are key to our continued success in education, research and enhancing the health and wellbeing of our communities.
What We Offer You!
In addition, we offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a range of benefits, including generous leave provisions, salary packaging, health and well-being services and discounts on graduate courses. For more information, check out our benefits page!
About the University of Melbourne
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The University of Melbourne values the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community and welcomes and celebrates diversity. First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, parents, carers, people of all ages, abilities and genders, and people of diverse ethnicity, nationality and faith are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to create a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community in which we live. For more information please visit our Diversity and Inclusion page.
We are dedicated to ensuring barrier free and inclusive practices to recruit the most talented candidates. If you require reasonable adjustments, please contact the employee listed on the first page of the Position Description found below, with an email containing your name and contact details for a confidential discussion. Please ensure your email is titled "Reasonable Adjustments Request".
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Applicants
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For further information, including our 2023-2027 Indigenous strategy please visit -https://about.unimelb.edu.au/reconciliation/murmuk-djerring
Join Us!
If you feel this role is right for you, please apply with the following documents:
- Resume
- Cover Letter outlining your interest and experience
- The responses against the Selection Criteria^ (found in the Position Description)
^For information to help you with compiling short statements to answer the selection criteria and competencies, please go to http://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/selection-criteria
Please ensure that you apply through the Apply Now button at the bottom of this advertisement. However, if you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please feel free to contact Brett Verity via email at hr-careers@unimelb.edu.au, ensuring that you include the Position Number and the Job Title as the subject. Please do not share your application to this email address.
If you have any particular questions regarding the job please follow the details listed on the Position Description.
Position Description
