Coordinator Biotechnology Lab Practicals

Providing hands-on laboratory education, ensuring our labs stay cutting-edge and coordinate lab courses. As the Coordinator Biotechnology Lab Practicals, your role offers an exciting range of responsibilities!

Within TU Delft’s Faculty of Biotechnology, you play a pivotal role in shaping the future generation of scientists. Across the bachelor’s programs Life Science & Technology and Molecular Science & Technology you engage in instructing over 300 students.

How do you achieve this? Principally by crafting and delivering practical education, spanning from fundamental laboratory training to advanced modules focused on microbiology, fermentation, downstream processing, and enzymatic conversion. Your role involves guiding students, evaluating their work, and assessing their reports.

You teach groups ranging from 20 to 50 students, supported by a dedicated team of lab assistants, technicians and PhD candidates. As a coordinator, you adeptly assemble teams for your classes and those of your faculty colleagues, overseeing recruitment, training, and guidance for the assistants. You report to Prof. Pascale Daran-Lapujade, the responsible instructor, who also supports you in shaping the lesson programs.

Additionally, you closely collaborate with teachers, researchers, and fellow coordinators, contributing innovative ideas to enhance teaching methods, learning objectives, and assessment practices. Beyond the bachelor programs, you actively participate in various educational committees alongside coordinators and teachers from other programs, elevating the overall organization and quality of our education.

In our labs and practical rooms, your focus is on continuous improvement, including the modernization of equipment as needed. You consistently explore avenues to optimize our laboratory infrastructure, procedures, and manuals to uphold standards of quality and safety.

You become part of an international team with approximately 50 colleagues from diverse countries, and educational backgrounds. You get support in advancing your teaching skills and obtain the Academic Basic Teaching Qualification (BKO).

• Hold an MSc or PhD in biology or life science.
• Experience in biotechnology, microbiology, or biochemistry.
• Demonstrate relevant experience, such as working with bioreactors or fermentation, or utilizing analysis methods like gas analysis, HPLC, and biomass measurements.
• Additional laboratory and research experience in industrial or academic settings is a plus.
• Exhibit a passion for teaching, with prior teaching experience being a valuable asset.
• Showcase strong organizational and time management skills, complemented by excellent interpersonal abilities.
• Demonstrate effective communication in both Dutch and English, both orally and in writing. If Dutch proficiency is at a basic level, language courses are available.

• A position for 32-40 hours per week.
• A salary based on scale 10 of the CAO for Dutch Universities with a minimum of € 3.226,00 and a maximum of € 5.090,00 gross per month based on a fulltime contract (38 hours), plus 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.
• An excellent pension scheme via the ABP.
• The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year.
• Discount with health insurers.
• Flexible working week.
• Every year, 232 leave hours (at 38 hours). You can also sell or buy additional leave hours via the individual choice budget.
• Plenty of opportunities for education, training and courses.
• Partially paid parental leave
• Attention for working healthy and energetically with the vitality program.

Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context.

At TU Delft we embrace diversity as one of our core values  and we actively engage  to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale. That is why we invite you to apply. Your application will receive fair consideration.

Challenge. Change. Impact!

Innovation is crucial to fulfil the potential of industrial biotechnology for sustainable production of fuels, chemicals, materials, food and feed. Similarly, scientific and technological advances in environmental biotechnology are needed to enable novel approaches to water purification, and ‘waste-to-product’ processes, thus contributing to a circular economy. Increased fundamental knowledge encompassing enzymes, microorganisms and processes is essential for progress in this field. The Department of Biotechnology covers this research area and, based on new insights, selects, designs and tests new bio-based catalysts, micro-organisms, and processes. For more information visit our department page.

For more information about the position or application process, please contact Pascale Daran-Lapujade, Professor Industrial Microbiology, at [email protected] . Do you meet the requirements and are you curious about the position? Feel free to contact Pascale before February 29, she will gladly arrange a visit to the lab and meet and greet with the team.

Are you interested in this vacancy? Please apply before February 29, 2024 via the application button and upload your motivation (1 page) and CV.

• A pre-employment screening can be part of the selection procedure.
• You can apply online. We will not process applications sent by email and/or post.
• Please do not contact us for unsolicited services.