Biotechnology Faculty & Lab Operations Manager (12 Months

Job Title

This position serves as a faculty member within the Biotechnology Department while also serving as the Biotechnology Lab Operations Manager. This position is based on the Lee Main Campus, with required travel to both Harnett and Chatham counties.

Central Carolina Community College is committed to being an employer of choice, grounded in excellence, integrity, respect, collaboration, innovation, and leadership. We provide a supportive, growth-focused workplace where professionals can thrive while helping students access first-class educational and workforce opportunities. Join us in shaping futures, strengthening our region, and contributing to a mission-driven culture rooted in service and opportunity.

Full-time faculty at Central Carolina Community College facilitate transformative lifelong learning by incorporating discipline-specific learning outcomes through active learning opportunities, lectures, hands-on skill development, assignments, and appropriate classroom management. Faculty provide authentic student assessment that allows students to improve their knowledge and skills with each assignment. Faculty focus on student success by establishing meaningful connections with students early in the semester to support the varying needs of each student throughout the term.

Teaching Responsibilities:

• Embrace the institutional goals of Central Carolina Community College by engaging students as full partners in the learning process, removing barriers to student progression in courses, and supporting and assisting students in achieving their educational and career goals.
• Use student learning outcomes to create a variety of activities, assignments, and assessments that ensure curriculum goals will be met.
• Create a dynamic instructional environment that promotes a positive, interactive, and inclusive learning experience for all students.
• Maintain a Blackboard course with a syllabus and gradebook for each class.
• Grade all assignments in a timely manner and ensure that all grades are reported within the 10-day college grading policy.
• Provide personalized and constructive feedback on student assignments by recognizing what students did well and identifying attainable improvements for future work.
• Respond to all student communication within two business days.
• Report attendance weekly.
• Facilitate student learning for instructional loads of 6-9 contact hours per semester.
• Maintain a weekly schedule of 35 hours on campus, including five required office hours. Hours on site may be adjusted based on distance education responsibilities and/or approved telework arrangements.
• Assume other duties as assigned.
• Actively support the college's vision of being the college of choice for students, workforce partners, community leaders, and employees.

Lab Operations Management:

• Oversee biotechnology instructional laboratory spaces, including upstream fermentation and bioprocessing labs, downstream purification labs, clean rooms and controlled environments, Bio Work lab spaces, and customized workforce training labs.
• Maintain, calibrate, and troubleshoot laboratory equipment, including bioreactors, centrifuges, incubators, chromatography systems, spectrophotometers, digital droplet PCR (ddPCR) systems, and autoclaves.
• Prepare laboratory materials, reagents, and solutions to support instructional activities.
• Support instructional laboratories by staging equipment, setting up and breaking down labs, restocking supplies, and assisting faculty and students during instructional and open lab hours.
• Ensure compliance with laboratory safety standards, regulatory requirements, chemical hygiene plans, biosafety (BSL-1 and BSL-2) protocols, safety audits, and hazardous waste handling procedures.
• Track and manage laboratory inventory and coordinate procurement requests with division administrative staff.
• Train and onboard new instructors on laboratory safety, equipment operation, and standard operating procedures.
• Support the planning, installation, commissioning, and expansion of laboratory facilities and equipment.
• Maintain 5S principles to promote laboratory organization, cleanliness, safety, and operational efficiency.
• Supervise students utilizing laboratory spaces, including biotechnology students and Federal Work-Study employees.
• Prepare and maintain bacterial and mammalian cell lines and related laboratory materials.
• Perform analytical testing using current biotechnology instrumentation and laboratory techniques.
• Coordinate equipment and material donations and cultivate partnerships with industry stakeholders.
• Serve as the department's operational designee by providing leadership continuity for laboratory operations and departmental representation in the absence of the Department Chair.

Institutional Responsibilities:

• Participate in activities required to maintain program and/or college accreditation standards.
• Serve on college committees as appointed.
• Attend advisory board meetings as requested by your supervisor.
• Attend…