Research lab manager

Research lab managers keep scientific laboratories running smoothly, handling operations so that researchers can focus on their work. The work spans ordering supplies and equipment, maintaining instruments, enforcing safety and compliance, supervising staff and students, and responding to the inevitable equipment failures and incidents.

They work in academic, government, and industry labs across many disciplines. The role suits practical, organised people who enjoy a mix of hands-on lab work, administration, and people management, and who stay level-headed when things go wrong.