Employment Opportunities

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Kansas State University Olathe's greatest resource is its faculty and staff. To better serve these individuals at all campuses, the university established the Division of Human Capital Services to focus on recruiting, developing and retaining a diverse, highly qualified workforce. This maximizes the university's ability to support the needs of all employees, including faculty, unclassified professionals, support staff and students.

To learn more about benefits available to employees and find important forms, visit the resources page.

 

Current openings

Faculty/Staff

Communications and Marketing Specialist (posted Feb. 26, 2024)

K-State Olathe is looking for a Communications and Marketing Specialist to develop and coordinate marketing plans for K-State Olathe initiatives, including professional development programming, special events and other initiatives, to help reach goals. This includes leveraging the campus’ client relationship management tool (CRM), website and other solutions to promote programming. It also requires working with internal and external partners, ensuring timely and accurate completion of tactics and regularly updating key stakeholders.

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Director, Advanced Manufacturing Research and Training (posted Feb. 12, 2024)

Advanced Manufacturing is a new initiative at Kansas State University Olathe designed to serve the growing manufacturing industry in the Greater Kansas City Region and nationally. New facilities are being built for student labs, and research of advanced manufacturing and bulk solid handling. The Advanced Manufacturing Research and Training Director will report to the Associate Dean, working closely with the Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives, the professional development manager and specialist, faculty and others on campus to develop and implement programs.

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Part-Time Instructor, Animal Health (posted Dec. 15, 2023)

The Animal Health Programs in the School of Applied and Interdisciplinary Studies (SAIS) at the Kansas State University Olathe campus invite qualified scholars and professionals with backgrounds in animal health, including regulatory affairs and data analytics, to submit applications that will be reviewed by the faculty and placed in a pool for consideration for temporary, part-time instructor positions. The selected instructor will teach a graduate-level course either in-person or online in the areas of animal health that relate to research and development, regulatory affairs and compliance (FDA/USDA/EPA), pharmacovigilance, quality assurance, statistics and/or business data analytics and insights. These are non-tenure-track members of the faculty whose primary role is instructional. Instructors report to the Animal Health Program Area Director.

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Research Assistant in the Urban Food Production and Postharvest Handling Lab (posted Aug. 7, 2023)

The selected candidate will work with Dr. Pliakoni and the Urban Food Production and Postharvest Handling team to perform fresh produce and hemp analysis for research and service. The candidate will also create and implement plans, strategies and standard operating procedures to ensure that all lab operations are in accordance with university, state and federal regulations and guidelines. The candidate will coordinate the acquisition, storage, inventory, and management of supplies and lab equipment. They will also perform some administrative duties, such as writing reports.

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Student/Other

Postdoc Associate for Statistical Learning and Data Mining of Automated Tracking to Support Sorghum Impact on Pig Behavior and Immune Responses (posted July 20, 2023)

The appointment is performed at K-State Olathe and K-State main campus in Manhattan; therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to travel to these research labs. We are looking for an independent researcher who will help conduct research using advanced statistical/mathematical tools to extract and cleanse data from different resources, build, and be an integral part of our 1DATA-PAW program. The incumbent to these positions would be responsible for the initial configuration and implementation of an API platform for continuous visual tracking of behaviors that will be collected using a camera system for our proprietary machine learning software (to be developed). The system could theoretically identify and count the number of potential contests or conflicts as well as distinguish play-like-behaviors. This is envisioned as a multipurpose platform that will integrate and analyze behaviors including distance, rotation, time spent drinking, near environmental enrichment, sleeping, and time spent in close proximity to pen mates using 1DATA tools (www.1DATA.life).

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Postdoc Associate for Automated Tracking and AI Deep Learning Analytics to Support Sorghum Impact on Pig Behavior and Immune Responses (posted July 20, 2023)

The appointment is performed at K-State Olathe and K-State main campus in Manhattan; therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to travel to these research labs. We are looking for an independent researcher who will help conduct research using advanced statistical/mathematical tools to extract and cleanse data from different resources, build, and be an integral part of our 1DATA-PAW program. The incumbent to these positions would be responsible for the initial configuration and implementation of an API platform for continuous visual tracking of behaviors that will be collected using a camera system for our proprietary machine learning software (to be developed). The system could theoretically identify and count the number of potential contests or conflicts as well as distinguish play-like-behaviors. This is envisioned as a multipurpose platform that will integrate and analyze behaviors including distance, rotation, time spent drinking, near environmental enrichment, sleeping, and time spent in close proximity to pen mates using 1DATA tools (www.1DATA.life).

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M.S./Ph.D. Student, Controlled Environment Agriculture (posted June 30, 2023)

A fully funded M.S./Ph.D. position is open under Teng Yang, Ph.D., teaching assistant professor of controlled environment agriculture. The graduate student will need a strong background in plant physiology and controlled environment agriculture to start in fall 2023 or spring 2024. Yang's lab focuses on the broad area of sustainable management techniques and practices of the urban food systems. The student will join K-state Olathe and will be conducting state-of-art research that improve access to fresh produce in urban communities.

 

K-State careers

A comprehensive list of openings in the university system also can be found by visiting K-State's Employment Page. Please follow directions for application process within each posting.

In addition, students and alumni are encouraged to visit the Career Center site.

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