Lab Quality Assurance Coordinator

Essential Functions

• Promotes and supports the One Intermountain philosophy.
• Developing and implementing a standard quality program.
• Oversight of document control and SOP development, review and updates.
• Monitoring and ensuring adherence to laboratory training and competency program.
• Ensuring improved, system‑wide integration of policies, procedures and competencies.
• Keeping current on regulatory and compliance issues and communicating updates and changes to laboratory leadership.
• Tracking and reporting errors, KPIs, system monitors and metrics through auditing and implementing quality improvement tools.
• Oversight of lab applications related to error management, quality assurance and education.
• Supports lab leadership in proficiency testing, validations, correlations, calibrations, instrument implementation, error documentation, root cause analysis and change control.
• Supports and manages accrediting‑body applications/updates (e.g., CAP, CLIA, AABB, FDA), coordinates inspections and oversees responses to deficiencies from on‑site inspections.

Minimum Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor’s degree in a chemical, biological or clinical laboratory/medical laboratory science from an accredited institution (degree will be verified).
• MLT/MLS (ASCP) certification or equivalent.
• Three years of technical laboratory or laboratory quality assurance experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification or training with quality assurance theory and tools.
• Five years of technical laboratory experience.

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients and visitors requiring verbal communication and hearing.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy, including frequent computer use.
• For roles requiring driving: expected to drive a vehicle, requiring sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Benefits

Benefits eligible: Yes. Intermountain provides a generous benefits package that supports a sustainable culture of wellness, covering programs that promote physical, mental, and spiritual well‑being, as well as health, happiness, security, connection, and engagement.

Pay

Hourly range: $39.16 – $60.42, dependent upon experience.

Schedule

• Day shift
• 40 weekly hours

Location

Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, Utah.