Instrumentation Support Specialist

Location: Binghamton, NY Category: Professional Job Type: Full-time Posted On: Tue Nov 10 2026 Job Description:

Budget Title: Instructional Support Specialist (SL-4)

Salary: $67,375 - $75,000 (commensurate with experience)

Binghamton University seeks applications for an Instrumentation Support Specialist in the Department of Earth Sciences. The primary responsibilities of this position are to maintain, repair, calibrate, and operate the analytical instruments that support the instructional and research mission of the Department of Earth Sciences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with Earth Sciences faculty and students to provide instructional support, maintain and repair instruments, and contribute to departmental laboratory operations

• Training users in sample analysis

• Developing analytical methods with faculty and students

• Scheduling instrument use

• Ordering consumable supplies

• Learn to operate, maintain, and repair every instrument listed below

Current Analytical Instruments in the Department of Earth Sciences, listed by highest priority need:

• Agilent 7900 Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) coupled with ESI 193 Laser Ablation Unit and Agilent 1260 HPLC

• Agilent 5800 Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES)

• Picarro L2140-i

• Philips X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD)

• Thermo Scientific Dionex Aquion Chromatography System

• Mastersizer Beckman Colter laser particle size analyzer

• Bruker TRACER III handheld XRF spectrometer

• Micromeritics SediGraph III

• Milli-Q Water System

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in geology, chemistry, physics, engineering, or a related physical science

• At least three (3) years of experience operating, maintaining, and repairing analytical instruments (at least 3 of the instruments listed above or equivalent instruments)

• Working knowledge of mass spectrometry and elemental analysis, instrument electronics, and vacuum systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in geology, chemistry, physics, engineering, or a related physical science

• At least five (5) years of experience operating, maintaining, and repairing at least 3 of the instruments listed above or equivalent instruments

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. If you currently need sponsorship or will need it in the future to maintain employment authorization, you do not meet eligibility requirements. Additionally, please note that Binghamton University is not an E-Verify employer.

Additional Information:

Offers of employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment background check and verification of degree(s) and credentials

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