LSI High Throughput Facility Manager### LSI High Throughput Facility ManagerApply: UBC Vancouver Campus
- Vancouver, BC, Canada: Full time: Posted Today: JR26400## Job TitleLSI High Throughput Facility Manager### ## Job CategoryM&P;
- AAPS## Job ProfileAAPS Salaried
- Research and Facilitation, Level E### ## Job Family GroupStaff
- Non Union### ## DepartmentLSI Leadership | Life Science Institute | Faculty of Science### ## Compensation Range$10,459.67
- $15,675.58 CAD MonthlyThe Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.Job End DateJanuary 3, 2028### ## Posting End DateDecember 21, 2026Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.
At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career. The High Throughput Biology (Bio) Core Facility Bio runs a state-of-the-art automation and liquid handling facility geared towards helping to bring costs to a reasonable level for faculty and SME wishing to pursue high throughput science. The facility runs classical high throughput compound screens (>150,000 compounds), is responsible for high content screening,



performs high throughput library builds for sequencing projects, and enables high throughput solutions for investigator related projects.

Job Description
Summary This position will manage the high-throughput screening core facility situated in the Life Science Institute (LSI). The facility will support diverse research initiatives through the LSI and Bioproducts Institute, and provide core support to researchers and highly qualified personnel (HQP) participating the Ecosystem Services, commercialization and entrepreneurship (ECOSCOPE) NSERC industrial stream training program. The facility houses a number of HTS and HCS related devices including a LabCyte workstation and supports diverse research initiatives through the LSI, and provides core support to researchers and highly qualified personnel (HQP) participating in small molecule screening, enzyme discovery and the automation of scientific processes including but not limited to: amplicon, metagenome and WGS library preps, large-scale DNA/RNA/plasmid isolation, and DoE studies. The position is responsible for a wide range of functions in order to manage strategically all technical, financial, legal, administrative and reporting components of the facility and to oversee operations and maintenance of the critical infrastructure. Organizational Status The position reports to the LSI Director and is a member of the Project Management Team..



The incumbent will also act as a liaison between the project leader, various project participants, ORS, UILO, , UBC Finance and the supporting grant agencies. Will work closely with LSI members, Bioproducts Institute and ECOSCOPE members to coordinate activities and manage the facility in support of research, training and translational initiatives. Work Performed
- Provides Strategic Research Management and operations support for user facility e.g., manage acquisition and operations of core infrastructure, schedule screening activities, manage data resulting from completed screens and other processes, diagnose and troubleshoot errors or malfunctions associated with core infrastructure, oversee maintenance and service contracts, develop platform capabilities of infrastructure to expand core services.
- Oversees project management to forecast, monitor and report on the completion of research milestones and facility operations.
- Prepares, manages and oversees accounts and receivables on behalf of the facility e.g., invoicing for fee for service and cost recovery, work with LSI Director and UILO to develop service contracts for private sector users.
- Manages scientific groups to produce timely & quality detailed reports to participants and granting agencies.
- Manages technical staff to meet the objectives of the facility
- Plans performs, and presents the results of prototyping experiments that demonstrate the utility of core resources and infrastructure for the purpose of developing educational and outreach material for the facility.
- Assesses human resources needs with project leaders, reviewing staffing levels, evaluating current needs including reducing appointments or hiring addi

📌 LSI High Throughput Facility Manager (Vancouver)
🏢 University of British Columbia
📍 Vancouver