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Primary Technical Leader

Marshall University · Huntington, WV · 2 wk ago
$85k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, no invented details. Remove boilerplate. We need to parse the posting: It contains Position Details etc. The substantive content: description of role, responsibilities, qualifications, required qualifications, maybe preferred qualifications (none given), salary range (Pay), location (maybe not needed), maybe schedule not given. Benefits not given. So we will have sections: About the role (maybe a brief summary), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (maybe required qualifications), Qualifications (maybe education/experience?), Skills (maybe list of skills), Pay (salary range). Schedule not given, so omit. Benefits not given, omit. We must not create sections with placeholder like "commensurate with experience" etc. For Pay we have salary range "$85,000 - Salary is commensurate with experience, education, and internal equity." That includes a phrase "Salary is commensurate with experience..." which is placeholder? It says "Salary is commensurate with experience, education, and internal equity." That's somewhat generic but it's actual text. The rule: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD"). So we cannot include Pay section if it only contains that placeholder? The posting says: Salary Range $85,000 - Salary is commensurate with experience, education, and internal equity. That includes a specific lower bound $85,000 and then says commensurate... The phrase "Salary is commensurate with experience..." is placeholder. But we have a concrete number $85,000 as minimum. Is that enough? The rule says never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state a salary range (though incomplete). It does state a number. I'd include Pay section with the given text, but we might need to avoid the placeholder phrase? The rule says never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD"). If we include the whole sentence, it contains filler phrase. Might be considered filler. Safer to omit Pay section? But we could include only the concrete part: "$85,000 -". However that would be inventing? We could output exactly as posted: "Salary Range $85,000 - Salary is commensurate with experience, education, and internal equity." That includes filler. Might violate. I'd decide to omit Pay section because it's largely placeholder. However the instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." If we omit Pay, we lose that info. But maybe we can include Pay with just the range "$85,000 -" and drop the rest? That would be altering content (removing filler). The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Removing the filler phrase is summarizing away detail? It's not substantive; it's filler. So we could drop filler and keep the substantive "$85,000 -". That seems okay: we are not inventing, we are removing filler. The substantive info is the lower bound $85,000. The rest is filler. So we can output Pay: "$85,000 -". That seems acceptable. Similarly, Benefits: none. Schedule: none. Now we need to craft sections. About the role: Could be a short paragraph summarizing the role: The Primary Technical Leader (PTL) is the highest technical authority for forensic DNA casework at MUFSC, accountable for scientific integrity, technical validity, regulatory compliance, etc. We can take from first paragraph. Responsibilities: list of duties: many bullet points from the description: sets technical direction, approves methods, resolves complex scientific issues, ensures analysis per validated methods, FBI QAS, ISO/IEC 17025, etc. Also technical authority over workflow, case acceptance, workflow authorization, methodology validation, interpretation, scientific decision-making, technical review, testimony, training, competency, personnel authorization, compliance, audits, other duties. We'll extract bullet points. Requirements: maybe required qualifications: education, experience, etc. We'll list. Qualifications: maybe preferred qualifications (none). Could combine with Requirements? But we need separate sections only if content exists. Preferred qualifications none, so omit. Skills: list of skills: e.g., STR and Y-STR analysis, capillary electrophoresis, MPS, DNA quantification, CODIS, FBI QAS, ISO/IEC 17025, QMS, lab safety, inventory management, data management software, etc. We must not repeat job title as heading. We'll output HTML fragment with

headings and
  • for lists,

    for prose. Let's craft. About the role:

    The Primary Technical Leader (PTL) is the highest technical authority for forensic DNA casework at MUFSC, accountable for the scientific integrity, technical validity, and regulatory compliance of all casework within the designated scope of technical authority. The role provides continuous technical authority over the capillary electrophoresis workflow (STR/Y‑STR) and may hold Massively Parallel Sequencing (MPS) Technical Authority when designated.

    Responsibilities: list items. We need to capture all responsibilities from the text. Let's extract: - Sets technical direction, approves methods, resolves complex scientific issues. - Ensures all analysis is performed in accordance with validated methods, FBI Quality Assurance Standards (QAS), ISO/IEC 17025, and applicable legal and regulatory requirements. - Serves as the laboratory’s Technical Leader of record and holds full authority and minimum responsibilities across all technologies within the laboratory’s scope of accreditation. - Where a technology‑specific scope of technical authority is designated to another individual (e.g., MPS Technical Authority), that designation constitutes a documented delegation of day‑to‑day technical authority within the designated workflow; the PTL retains overall accountability for technical operations, including all delegated scopes, and retains authority to initiate, suspend, and resume technical operations across those scopes. - Reports to the Laboratory Director of Operations (LDO) for administrative and operational coordination and serves on the MUFSC Strategic Analysis and Risk Committee. - Within each designated scope of accreditation exercises independent technical authority, coordinating with any other designated Technical Leader, the Quality Manager, and the LDO for continuity, compliance, and cross‑technology integration. - Does not assume executive, quality system, or operational administration authority; keeps technical decision‑making separate from administrative and fiscal oversight. - Coordinates with each designated authority, the Quality Manager, and the LDO to ensure continuity, compliance, and cross‑technology integration. - Decisions directly affect scientific defensibility, accreditation standing, legal admissibility, and reliability of casework within the designated scope. - Holds final technical authority over workflows and interpretations, from evidence handling through report issuance, and over acceptability of profiles provided to uploading agency for CODIS. - Governs technical operations of designated technologies as final technical authority for all related casework. - Defines, approves, and enforces technical policies, procedures, and requirements within the scope of accreditation. - Authorizes start, suspension, or resumption of workflows in response to technical, quality, or safety concerns across all phases of analysis. - Provides technical acceptance of instruments and platforms before use in casework. - Approves technical specifications for outsourcing agreements and outsourced services. - Identifies and approves technical need for kits, supplies, and consumables within the designated scope, in coordination with operations and finance. - Provides technical consultation on case acceptance, scope, and feasibility. - Provides technical input and consultation on case triage and assignment within the designated scope, in coordination with operational leadership. - Authorizes requests for additional evidence or information when needed for technical reasons. - Verifies and approves case submission and acceptance from a technical standpoint. - Maintains continuous technical authority over the capillary electrophoresis workflow, from evidence receipt through interpretation and final report. - Provides technical supervision of evidence examination and screening, isolation, extraction, quantification, amplification, capillary electrophoresis, and genetic characterization of biological samples. - Authorizes technical transfer to the MPS Technical Authority when a case proceeds to sequencing, after quantification and formal acceptance into the sequencing workflow, when that designation is held by another individual. - Evaluates, approves, and maintains methods and their validations within the designated scope. - Proposes and assesses new or modified procedures using a risk‑based, scientifically justified approach. - Establishes and maintains interpretation guidelines, including analytical and stochastic thresholds and mixture criteria, and the criteria that distinguish routine from non‑routine casework. - Resolves complex analytical and interpretive challenges. - Leads interpretation of complex profiles, including mixtures, low‑template, degraded, and inhibited samples. - Renders final technical determinations on analytical and interpretive issues, ensuring consistency, reproducibility, and compliance. - Holds technical accountability for approval of forensic, relationship, and database reports, including appropriate disclosure of limitations before issuance. - Determines CODIS eligibility of profiles generated by the laboratory, verifies genotype concordance as internal quality control. - Serves as technical point of contact with uploading agency on profile eligibility, concordance, and resolution of database‑related technical questions. - Coordinates reporting consistency and case integration when multiple technologies apply to a case. - Performs or oversees technical review and approval of casework and reports within the designated scope. - Decides on technical deviations, alternative approaches, and non‑routine issues. - Supports court preparation and consults on analyst testimony within the designated scope. - Reviews, approves, and oversees training, proficiency testing, and analyst qualification within the designated scope. - Sets and enforces competency requirements, providing technical guidance and supervision so personnel maintain authorization and compliance. - Authorizes DNA Technicians to execute specific procedures and instrument operations following documented training and competency assessment. - Serves as primary technical authority during internal and external audits and accreditation assessments for the designated workflows, in coordination with the Quality Manager. - Reviews audit documentation, approves technical corrective actions, and periodically reviews procedures, including conflict‑of‑interest risk assessments. - Performs other technical duties as assigned by the Executive Director or coordinated through the LDO, provided they fit the designated technical authority and do not assume executive, quality system, or operational administration authority under the MUFSC Governance and Authority Framework. That's a lot; we can condense but must preserve all substantive info. Could be long but okay. Requirements: Required Qualifications: Education: Minimum of a master’s degree in biology, chemistry, or forensic science related area; successful completion of at least nine (9) credit hours of coursework in biology or chemistry related areas that provide understanding of foundation of DNA analysis, plus coursework in statistics or population genetics; required coursework includes at least one graduate level course. Experience: Minimum of three (3) years of human DNA experience, current or previous, as a qualified analyst on forensic samples; currently or previously qualified analyst in each technology utilized in the laboratory, or documented training in each technology utilized within one year of appointment; previous completion of, or successful completion within one year of appointment of, the current FBI DNA auditor training course; demonstrated technical leadership, supervisory, or management experience in a forensic DNA laboratory; extensive STR analysis experience: isolation, identification, amplification, interpretation, and genetic characterization using STR and Y‑STR methods; experience overseeing daily technical operations in an ISO‑accredited forensic laboratory; comprehensive knowledge of capillary electrophoresis workflows, including contamination control, analytical thresholds, stochastic effects, and complex mixture interpretation; working knowledge of CODIS, the CODIS core loci, profile eligibility criteria, and NDIS acceptance requirements, including quality control of profiles prior to release to an uploading agency; thorough knowledge of FBI QAS and ISO/IEC 17025, including technical leadership, validation, training, competency, audits, and corrective actions; working knowledge of Quality Management Systems (QMS

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