The University of Ottawa—A crossroads of cultures and ideas
The University of Ottawa is home to over 50,000 students, faculty and staff, who live, work and study in both French and English. Our campus is a crossroads of cultures and ideas, where bold minds come together to inspire game-changing ideas. We are one of Canada’s top 10 research universities—our professors and researchers explore new approaches to today’s challenges. One of a handful of Canadian universities ranked among the top 200 in the world, we attract exceptional thinkers and welcome diverse perspectives from across the globe. Our employees come together around the shared purpose of constant improvement, personal development, service excellence, teamwork and a passion for learning with a desire to make uOttawa and the world a better place. Everyone's contributions are valued, we all play a part in making uOttawa a world-class institution. Most importantly, we make it possible for you to achieve your full potential.? Because at uOttawa, you belong!
About the faculty/service: Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering strives to provide a learning environment that promotes excellence and innovation, ethical practice and responsibility towards society. Our workplace will challenge, energize and motivate you to be your very best while providing opportunities for career growth and professional development. Our work makes a world of difference in the lives of our students, who will become the next generation of leaders and change makers of our society. Our dynamic community is dedicated to building innovations that will not only help the advancement of technology, but solutions that will revolutionize the industry. We look forward to making the future TOGETHER!
Position purpose:
Performs a variety of technical activities in support of clients, including students, teaching assistants, faculty members, and other scientific or engineering professionals, in an assigned group of specialized scientific teaching lab infrastructures. Provides complex technical advice, support, and training to clients in the research, analysis, design, development, production, set-up, testing, operation, and maintenance of laboratory systems to the specification of the department or faculty's curriculum or research requirements in order to achieve the experimental objectives and ensure safe working practices. The work is performed with minimal supervision, under general guidelines, and requires full awareness of the various technologies used.
What you will bring:
Undergraduate degree in natural/applied sciences or related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Minimum 3 years of experience providing support and technical advice in a teaching/research laboratory.
A graduate degree in a discipline relevant to nanotechnology or nanofabrication is an asset.
Experience working in clean rooms, and with the operation and maintenance of vacuum equipment and (electron and ion) beam tools such as scanning electron microscopes and focused ion beam systems.
Experience with nanofabrication processes and tools such as optical and electron-beam lithography, thin film deposition (sputtering, evaporation), focused ion beam milling, etching (wet, ion, deep reactive ion), microscopy (optical, scanning electron beam, atomic force, He ion beam) and other metrology tools commonly used in clean rooms.
General knowledge of laboratory tools, equipment, instruments, materials, and hazards and their safe usage.
Knowledge of Health and Safety rules, regulations and University policies and proceduresrelated to the operation of labs and lab equipment/material.
Knowledge of computers and data acquisition procedures.
Experience in providing technical support and advice to users for lab equipment.
Experience in designing, fabricating, assembling, building, testing and repairing special purpose lab equipment.
Experience in preparing and developing scientific experiments.
Experience in writing and developing technical reports and other related documentation.
Ability to read and understand texts of considerable difficulty requiring understanding of concepts, procedures, and instructions, including the scientific literature.
Analytical skills to diagnose and repair laboratory equipment and material issues.
Analytical skills to debug fabrication processes.
Ability to communicate technical concepts to users.
Experience in teaching and student evaluation.
Bilingualism - French and English
Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:
Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realise an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.