The Water Quality Laboratory Director is responsible for overseeing the operations, research activities, and strategic direction of the water quality laboratory. This role involves managing laboratory personnel, ensuring high quality analysis and testing of samples, compliance with safety and quality standards, maintaining and upgrading instrumentation, securing funding through grant writing, determining necessary equipment to establish and expand the lab, and fostering collaborative research efforts within and outside the institution. The Director will support faculty, students, and external partners in environmental water quality sample characterization, and the development of techniques for research and development consistent with the goals of the Kansas Water Institute.
The Kansas Water Institute (KWI) develops and supports research on high-priority water resource problems and objectives identified through the state water plan. KWI is a multi-disciplinary institute, with faculty involvement from the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Agriculture, Engineering, and Veterinary Medicine. Additionally, the institute facilitates effective communication between water resource professionals and helps disseminate and apply research results. For more information, please visit: https://www.k-state.edu/engagement/innovation-and-partnerships/interdisciplinary-institutes/water-institute/
Kansas State University (www.ksu.edu) is located in the city of Manhattan (www.ci.manhattan.ks.us), a welcoming community of about 60,000 individuals in the Flint Hills of north central Kansas, 2 hours west from Kansas City. Manhattan also serves as the regional center for education, health care, commerce, the performing arts, entertainment and communications.
This position is On-site.
Minimum Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Sponsorship eligibility:
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. on an ongoing basis without sponsorship
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Applications close on: October 10, 2025
$93,165 - $130,427 Annually
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