Senior Technical Officer
Job No.: 690726
Location: Clayton campus
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: Continuing appointment
Remuneration: $106,789 - $117,128 pa HEW Level 07 (plus 17% employer superannuation)
- Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
- Join our inclusive, collaborative community
- Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them
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The Opportunity
Join a leading research environment as a Senior Technical Officer supporting the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS). This pivotal role applies specialist scientific and safety expertise to manage laboratory safety, infrastructure and operational services that underpin world-class research.
You will provide expert guidance on safety and physical infrastructure management across laboratories and associated facilities, ensuring safe work practices for staff and students while overseeing the compliant procurement of research consumables, services and assets. This is an opportunity to play a critical role in maintaining safe, efficient and high-performing research environments.
About Monash University
At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground breaking – a place where great things happen.
We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.
Some 20,000 staff work for Monash around the world. We have 95,000 students, four Australian campuses, and campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia. We also have a major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy.
In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world's best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2026.
Today, we have the momentum to create the future we need for generations to come. Accelerate your change here.
Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.
To Apply
To apply, please submit a resume along with a cover letter that addresses your experience in the 6 key areas outlined under the Key Selection Criteria in the position description.
- No.3: Excellent operational management skills with demonstrated experience establishing priorities, implementing improvements and meeting deadlines in a complex environment
- No.4. Demonstrated experience in purchasing of research equipment and consumables, observing purchasing protocols and managing safety
- No.5. Demonstrated experience in management of research equipment and infrastructure in the University environment, working with the Buildings & Property group
- No.6. Demonstrated specialist knowledge of safety technology and legislation regards space use, research lab fit-out and research equipment, providing expert advice on safe working environments, safe work practices and safety protocols in labs and related facilities
- No.7. Demonstrated practice in supporting compliance with OH&S legislation and the regulations of statutory bodies and policies of the University, within a complex working environment
- No.8. Demonstrated capacity to document safe operating procedures and risk assessments including capacity for investigation and review of circumstances that may cause a risk to safety
Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.
Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.
Enquiries: Rosemary Manning, Chief Operating Officer, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences T: +61 3 990-59341
Position Description: Senior Technical Officer
Applications Close: Monday 9 March 2026, 11:55pm AEDT
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