Technical Associate: Engineering Lab - Full Time

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Job Description

Essential Functions

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Maintenance and Repair: ensure that all equipment is functioning optimally.
• Safety Compliance: implement and enforce safety protocols, including proper use, storage, and disposal of chemicals, and providing training on safe lab practices for all users of the engineering lab.
• Equipment Calibration: responsible for calibrating equipment regularly to ensure accuracy and reliability of results.
• Technical Support: serves as a resource for troubleshooting problems, providing guidance, and offering technical support as needed for classroom laboratory exercises, student work, and research projects.
• Inventory Management: maintain an inventory of supplies, materials, and equipment, including ordering supplies, tracking usage, and maintaining appropriate stock levels.
• Student worker supervision: supervise work-study students including training and oversight of lab monitors.

Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required):

The successful candidate should be self-motivated and educationally focused with background, experience, and ability that includes several of the following:

• Project management and data base management to maintain inventories
• Trouble-shoot mechanical systems
• Trouble-shoot electronic and mechatronic systems
• Operation and basic maintenance of lab equipment, including, but not limited to: 3D printers, laser cutter, testing equipment, and machining equipment.
• Work in hands-on, educational lab environments with students and faculty
• Promote and support a safe, clean, and organized educational laboratory environment
• Computational abilities including programs in the MS Office suite and computer programming (C++ or python)
• Communicate effectively with individuals and organizations within the university system ability to supervise student workers
• Familiarity with CAD software
• Willingness to learn how to use, calibrate, and maintain new equipment

The candidate should have an ability and willingness to learn and support lab activities.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

Education:

• A minimum of high-school diploma with proven work experience and an ability to work within a STEM-based educational environment.
• Bachelor of Science or Associates degree in a related field is preferred.

AND

Experience:

• 3-5 years experience in an engineering field.

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Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.