Supervisor, Molecular Operations - Solid Tumor (1st Shift)

Job Responsibilities

• Manages/performs all clinical molecular testing.
• Maintains routine molecular equipment maintenance and support logs.
• Train molecular technologists on new techniques.
• Monitor test analysis and specimen examination to ensure acceptable levels of analytic performance are maintained.
• Follows the laboratory procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analyses, reporting and maintaining records of patient test results.
• Support compliance to all applicable regulatory and standard requirements (FDA, CLIA, NYS, CAP, ISO, etc.).
• Performs and documents proficiency testing (PT) samples.
• Adheres to the laboratory's quality control policies, documents all quality control activities, instrument and procedural calibrations and maintenance performed.
• Follows the laboratory's established policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within the laboratory's established acceptable level of performance.
• Documents all corrective action taken when a test system deviates from the laboratory's established performance specifications.
• Aids in the tracking, accumulation, and computation of performance metrics.
• Demonstrates the ability to accurately prioritize and triage specimens, handles and disposes of specimens and chemical waste based on the laboratory's procedural manual, and ensures compliance with regulatory agencies.
• Ensures lab has adequate inventories of reagents and supplies.
• Resolves employee relations issues and recommends disciplinary action when required.
• Acts as first point of contact on technical, procedural, and policy questions.
• Keeps team informed of new processes and general updates.
• Must multi-task and work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Ensure procedures and processes are in place that led to delivery of quality results and continually reassess their effectiveness to achieve continuous improvement.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Shares and receives information and ideas from all levels of the organization in order to achieve the desired results.
• Support and commit to the successful achievement of team and organizational goals through a desire to participate with and help other members of the team.
• Demonstrate a focus on listening to and understanding client/customer needs and then delighting the client/customer by exceeding service and quality expectations.
• Accepts other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a chemical, biological, clinical or medical laboratory science, or medical technology from an accredited institution.
• 4+ years clinical lab experience, including 2 years of high complexity patient testing, 1 of which is in Molecular Pathology methods.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in a chemical, biological, clinical or medical laboratory science, or medical technology from an accredited institution.
• Previous leadership experience in a clinical laboratory setting.
• Experience with PCR, microarray, fragment analysis, Sanger sequencing, and Next Generation Sequencing preferred.
• CLSp (MB), MB(ASCP) certification preferred.