This position is designed to oversee the orderly, safe, and proper coordination and administration of forensic science teaching and research laboratories.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Procures, maintains, and assembles materials, specimens and equipment for forensic science laboratories.
• Prepares instructional materials and lab manuals for forensic laboratories. Ensures laboratory workspace is prepared and clean prior to each lab.
• Works with faculty and staff to identify and maintain laboratory inventory lists. Assists University personnel and state auditors in identifying and locating inventory.
• Monitors lab teaching schedules in coordination with faculty and school director and instructs lab sections, as needed.
• Serves as a liaison with university safety representatives and ensures that lab safety requirements are adhered to within forensic laboratories.
• Works with faculty to maintain laboratory equipment and obtain quotes and necessary repairs.
• Assists with lab fee account reports, budget decisions.
• Assists with student advisement, as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned

• Utilizes and maintains personal computer, microscopes, balances, centrifuges, and hand tools (hammers, screwdrivers, and pliers), refrigerators, freezers, and other forensic laboratory equipment.
• Ability to use standard office equipment such as stapler, staple remover, and scissors.
• Knowledge and competency of general forensic techniques
• Understanding of safety guidelines and how to establish safety standards for a forensic laboratory.
• Ability to develop a detailed budget and account reports
  

About The University of Southern Mississippi
The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) is a comprehensive public research institution delivering transformative programs on campuses in Hattiesburg and Long Beach, at teaching and research sites across the Mississippi Gulf Coast, as well as online. Founded in 1910, USM is one of only 131 universities in the nation to earn the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education's "R1: Doctoral Universities - Very high research activity" designation, and its robust research enterprise includes experts in ocean science and engineering, polymer science and engineering, and large event venue safety and security, among others. USM is also one of only 37 institutions in the nation accredited in theatre, art and design, dance and music. As an economic driver, USM generates an annual economic impact of more than $600 million across the state. USM welcomes a diverse student body of more than 14,000, representing 71 countries, all 50 states, and every county in Mississippi. USM students have collected four Truman Scholarships and 37 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, while also leading Mississippi with 27 Goldwater Scholarships, an honor that recognizes the next generation of great research scientists. Home to the Golden Eagles, USM competes in 17 Division I sports sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). For more information, visit www.usm.edu.

As an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity employer/Americans with Disabilities Act institution, The University of Southern Mississippi encourages minorities, women, veterans and persons with disabilities to apply.