Who we are

About NORDTECH: The Northeast Regional Defense Technology Hub (NORDTECH) is a regional coalition of public and private sector experts in and around New York State, established as one of the eight hubs by Department of Defense (DoD) Microelectronics Commons program. NORDTECH’s five founding members include NY CREATES, University at Albany, Cornell University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and IBM. In addition to the founding members, NORDTECH consists of members from academia, government organizations, and industry, including the defense industrial base and small/medium enterprises. NORDTECH brings distributed expertise and capabilities of the Northeast to create onshore scalability across the research, prototyping, and commercial transition of leading-edge microelectronics in support of Department of Defense (DoD) Microelectronics Commons program goals.

Why Rensselaer? Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is a dynamic global community of changemakers, including some of the world’s leading researchers, students, alumni, and faculty who ask the important questions and devise the scientific and technological innovations that make the world a better place for all of humanity.

Nestled on a beautiful 275-acre campus in upstate NY, Rensselaer is home to five schools, 32 research centers, three makerspaces, an observatory, one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, and IBM's Quantum System One - the first university-based quantum computer in the world! 

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Job Summary

The NORDTECH Hub has a collection of distributed tooling and process capabilities provided by NORDTECH prototyping and core facilities. As the Facility Coordinator for the NORDTECH Hub, you coordinate facility activities within the NORDTECH community, and develop and maintain detailed knowledge of all capabilities at the prototyping and core facility sites in order to serve as a Hub subject matter expert.

The Facilities Coordinator will coordinate the work plans between facilities while monitoring the progress of the projects. In addition, the coordinator works closely with the NORDTECH leadership team and facility advising committee to create a comprehensive description of the facility capabilities and define best practices for transition through and across facilities. The coordinator will be responsible for updating metrics on NORDTECH-resourced facility capabilities, status, and access processes for NORDTECH projects and making this data available to NORDTECH members.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in related field
• Five (5) years experience in supporting, managing, or directing a research or industry laboratory or cleanroom facility

OR

• Master's Degree in related field
• Three (3) years experience supporting, managing, or directing a research or industry laboratory or cleanroom facility

Preferred:

• Degree from an accredited institution in electrical engineering, materials science & engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, physics, optics and photonics, or other closely related discipline requiring cleanroom usage

Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience in cleanroom protocols and techniques and providing technical oversight in microelectronics, nanofabrication or semiconductor manufacturing projects
• Experience in establishing partnerships and relationships
• Experience in interfacing with different levels of business professionals, faculty, staff, collaborators
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate and work effectively with a diverse group of constituents
• Demonstrated effective oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to produce regular reports to effectively showcase progress
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as part of a team
  
  

Shift

Business Hours: Monday - Friday

Travel

Driving

Driving a personal vehicle for non-passenger use

Starting Salary/Rate

Expected hiring range: $100,000 - $136,000

Pay transparency disclosure: The selected candidate’s salary will be determined based on factors that include the available budget, internal equity, and the final candidate’s qualifications, experience, education and other job-related credentials. This hiring range is provided as Rensselaer’s good faith estimate of the expected hiring range at the time of posting and cannot be exceeded.

Application instructions

Follow the on-screen prompts to create a brief online profile. Please be ready to upload your resume and cover letter.

If you need assistance with the online application process, please contact careers@rpi.edu.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Total Compensation and Benefits Information

Rensselaer’s Total Compensation Program is designed to provide stable pay growth, a comprehensive and affordable benefits package, and a comprehensive and affordable retiree medical and prescription plan. Rensselaer is recognized locally and nationally for the depth and breadth of its compensation and benefits program. Our goal is to provide you and your family with a comprehensive health and welfare program as an umbrella of financial security and protection during your employment. For more information, please visit Benefits | Human Resources (rpi.edu).

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