Penn State University - University Park, PA
posted 4 days ago
About the position
Main responsibilities will include participation and management of research projects with dairy cattle at the Department of Animal Science's Dairy Research and Teaching Center and at commercial dairy farms. The candidate will help with managing an animal nutrition research laboratory, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of laboratory equipment, and will be involved in training and supervising of undergraduate and graduate students. Further responsibilities include training users in equipment operation and research techniques, development of analytical procedures, coordinating and conducting sample and data collection, processing, and analysis, purchasing of supplies and equipment, managing chemical and equipment inventories, and other tasks related to managing a research laboratory. Also, this person will participate and be responsible for the conduct of nutritional experiments with dairy cows, which will involve feed preparation and feeding, feed and animal samples collection and processing, experimental data processing and analysis, and other related tasks.
Responsibilities
- Participation and management of research projects with dairy cattle.
- Managing an animal nutrition research laboratory.
- Operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of laboratory equipment.
- Training and supervising undergraduate and graduate students.
- Training users in equipment operation and research techniques.
- Development of analytical procedures.
- Coordinating and conducting sample and data collection, processing, and analysis.
- Purchasing of supplies and equipment.
- Managing chemical and equipment inventories.
- Conducting nutritional experiments with dairy cows, including feed preparation and feeding.
- Collecting and processing feed and animal samples.
- Processing and analyzing experimental data.
