Senior Staff Lab Manager (R5090)

Lab Strategy & Infrastructure

Own the overall vision, architecture, and roadmap for engineering laboratory infrastructure.

Design, build, and commission new laboratory spaces to support evolving engineering programs.

Define standards for laboratory layout, power distribution, networking, cooling, safety, security, and scalability.

Develop long-term modernization plans to ensure laboratory capabilities remain aligned with engineering needs.

Evaluate and implement new technologies, tools, and automation to improve laboratory efficiency and reliability.

Lab Operations

Own day-to-day laboratory operations across multiple engineering disciplines.

Develop scheduling processes that maximize lab utilization while minimizing conflicts and downtime.

Plan and coordinate preventative maintenance, calibration, repairs, and equipment lifecycle management.

Manage laboratory uptime, availability, and operational readiness.

Establish operational metrics, KPIs, and reporting for lab performance.

Engineering Systems & Integration

Support complex hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), software-in-the-loop (SIL), integration, and validation environments.

Develop laboratory standards for networking, compute infrastructure, storage, instrumentation, and data acquisition.

Partner with engineering teams to architect robust development and test environments.

Ensure laboratories support rapid system integration and reproducible testing.

Leadership

Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of lab engineers, infrastructure engineers, and technicians.

Recruit, mentor, and grow high-performing technical staff.

Prioritize work across multiple concurrent engineering programs.

Establish standard operating procedures, documentation, and best practices.

Foster a culture of safety, ownership, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

Collaboration

Work closely with Hardware, Electrical, Mechanical, Software, Systems, Manufacturing, and Test Engineering organizations.

Partner with IT, Facilities, Security, and EH&S teams to deliver reliable and secure laboratory environments.

Manage vendor relationships for laboratory equipment, infrastructure, and service providers.