Req #: 243135 Department: INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Appointing Department Web Address: https://ise.washington.edu/ Job Location Detail: In-person Posting Date: 02/04/2025 Closing Info: Open Until Filled Salary: $4,600 - $5,400 per month Shift: First Shift Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-staff-20230701\_a11y.pdf) As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world. UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) maintains an internationally recognized research program with three research areas (operations, applied statistics and production systems, and human factors and ergonomics) and research applications in health care, transportation and manufacturing). ISE prepares students for careers in a diverse and dynamically global environment, by providing them with the skills to foster a sustainable and safe future. Students learn to take a systems approach to problem solving and to recognize the larger societal impact of each engineering decision. We offer degrees at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral level, and our professional Master of Engineering program provides individuals in the workplace the opportunity to sharpen their leadership and entrepreneurship skills. We are known for our supportive atmosphere, the accessibility of our faculty and staff, and the inclusiveness of our community. Our alumni serve on the ISE executive advisory board, are part of our affiliate scholars program, and have supported us through student scholarships and endowments. We host departmental events each year to help students enhance their career skills, locate internship opportunities, and gain entrance into graduate school. The department’s annual research volume of our faculty is currently over $4 million. More information is available at: https://ise.washington.edu/. We strive to build and maintain a culturally diverse community and encourage applications from women and minority candidates. The University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, status as protected veterans, or status as qualified individuals with disabilities. **The Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering has an outstanding opportunity for a** **_Temporary_** **Research Scientist/Engineer 1 position.** The Research Scientist/Engineer 1, will support the research programs with in the ISE department. Area of application: Cybersecurity, Human factors, Data Analytics and optimization methods. The successful candidate will assist and help support collaborations with industry, assist in developing technical reports for projects. The hired person will also support graduate students, monitor project activities, maintain confidentiality of data, manage the facilities for all the department labs, and interact regularly with the technical and administrative points of contact of the sponsoring organization. **DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES** Assist in research, including engineering design, experimentation, knowledge dissemination (60%) + Report the research progress to the supervisor regularly and as needed. + Assist in developing research reports, assist in making presentations for scientific conferences, and assist in preparation of manuscripts for publications in scientific journals. + Will search online for potential external funding opportunities relevant to the research programs for the department. + Assist in editing written proposals. + Contribute to data analysis by performing basic data quality control and statistical analysis, edit written reports, and contribute to planning follow-up experiments. + Generate reports summarizing data collection activities, findings, and recommendations for internal and external stakeholders.Facilities management and laboratory activities: (30%) + Assist in coordinating project activities with other team members to meet the project milestones. + Collaborate with the Operations Manager and other Research Scientists, act as a point of contact for facility users to initiate projects, determine scope and resource needs, and carry to completion. + Assisting the development of research infrastructures and laboratory spaces. Partner with Research Scientists with communicating with external users interested in using ISE Facility resources. + Provide support to graduate students, visiting scholars and others. + Organize group meetings and Interact and collaborate across the university. + Coordinate equipment shipping, asset tracking, and retrieval for as needed. + Assist in data collection efforts with research team. + Update lab’s websites.Other duties as assigned by the supervisor (10%) **MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS** + Bachelor’s degree in STEM, informatics, or related and 1 year of engineering, research lab, or research experience. **Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.** **ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS** + Excellent interpersonal and communication skills - ability to interact with laboratory personnel and external customers. + Demonstrate high organizational skills and have knowledge of laboratory working environments. **DESIRED EXPERIENCE** + Experience in research lab and facilities maintenance. + BS level training in STEM related fields. + Experience with website - Drupal. + Familiarity with Microsoft Office suite, Canva, and computer programming language (eg Python, R) and GitHub. + Experienced with collecting user data. **Application Process:** The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed. University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.