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Position: Full-Time Lead Medical Laboratory Scientist
Department: Automated Testing Lab
Location: UPMC Passavant
Shifts: 40 hours per week; 1 weekend per 6-week schedule & 2 rotating holidays required.

Rate of pay will be determined based upon qualifications, experience, and education. 

Responsibilities
 

• Perform all duties of a Medical Laboratory Scientist while serving as a technical and operational lead within the laboratory.
• Function as a Supervisor Designate, providing leadership support and assuming supervisory responsibilities in the absence of laboratory leadership.
• Coordinate daily workflow, evaluate operational issues, and escalate concerns to laboratory leadership as appropriate.
• Assist with staff scheduling, work assignments, and maintaining efficient laboratory operations.
• Monitor laboratory instrumentation, ensure required maintenance is completed, and troubleshoot equipment issues.
• Review quality control, quality assurance, and proficiency testing activities to support accurate and compliant laboratory operations.
• Compile and analyze quality data, prepare reports, and assist with process improvement initiatives.
• Support employee competency assessments and provide mentoring, guidance, and technical expertise to laboratory staff.
• Train and onboard new employees, students, and other laboratory personnel.
• Serve as a technical resource for testing procedures, methodologies, and result interpretation.
• Participate in the evaluation, validation, and implementation of new testing methods, procedures, and reagent systems.
• Develop, revise, and maintain laboratory policies, procedures, and technical documentation in accordance with regulatory and accreditation standards.
• Monitor inventory levels, coordinate supply management activities, and assist with purchasing as needed.
• Represent the laboratory in interdisciplinary meetings, committees, and organizational initiatives.
• Promote a culture of quality, safety, compliance, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Note: All competencies must be achieved. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities, and working conditions associated with the role.