SNF Operations Director search: your help requested

Dear Labmember community,

Welcome to 2011! It's great to see the SNF coming back online -- thanks
to the staff for their efforts in bringing the tools back up and in
better communicating where they all stand.

As many of you know, we're searching for an Operations Director for the
SNF. Here's the summary from the Stanford Jobs website. If you know of a
potential candidate, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could send him or
her our way.

Thanks,
Roger

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The Operations Director reports directly to the SNF Faculty Director and
is expected to work with significant autonomy. The Operations Director
is the primary liaison between the SNF and other administrative offices
within the University, including but not limited to the School of
Engineering Dean's Office Administration & Finance, the Office of
Sponsored Research and Environmental Health & Safety.

Primary responsibilities include the following:

• Creating a motivated work environment that organizes and allocates
staff in order to achieve the SNF's goals

• Managing proper staffing levels

• Performing feasibility studies and cost and revenue analyses and
developing financial projections to ensure long-term stability of the SNF

• Ensuring that fabrication tools meet the research needs of the
labmember community

• Monitoring, managing and balancing the budget

• Operating the SNF according to policies set forth by the University
and applicable sponsors

• Coordinating the facility's operations with other shared
nanotechnology labs at Stanford

• Overseeing operational, facility and regulatory issues related to the
handling, use and disposal of various hazardous materials

Qualifications:

The successful candidate is expected to have the following
qualifications and will preferably have worked in an academic and/or
research laboratory.

• A minimum of seven years experience designing, implementing,
maintaining and measuring effective and efficient financial and
administrative operations at a senior level.

• Conceptual and analytical skills, including the ability to identify
problems and implement effective solutions

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Sufficient technical knowledge to both ensure effective communication
with the Faculty Director and technical staff and to make a variety of
decisions that affect operations of the SNF

• Experience allocating staff resources to improve existing equipment
operations and provide reliable performance for the research community

• Proven skills in personnel management, supervision and policy
implementation

• Familiarity with managing facilities/space and property management
according to institutional and sponsor policies

• Experience monitoring compliance with health and safety policies and
procedures

• Strong computer skills, including experience working in an environment
with varied and complex administrative computing systems (such as Oracle
Financials in the Stanford environment), as well as substantial
expertise in Microsoft Office