Dental Laboratory Technician Supervisor

Dental Laboratory Technician Supervisor

Job

Location:

Augusta University

Full/Part Time:
Full Time

Regular/Temporary:

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Augusta University is Georgia's innovation center for education and health care, training the next generation of innovators, leaders, and healthcare providers in classrooms and clinics on four campuses in Augusta and locations across the state. More than 10,500 students choose Augusta for educational opportunities at the center of Georgia's cybersecurity hub and experiential learning that blends arts and application, humanities, and the health sciences.

Augusta is home to Georgia's only public academic health center, where groundbreaking research is creating a healthier, more prosperous Georgia, and world-class clinicians are bringing the medicine of tomorrow to patient care today. Our mission and values are described at the Augusta University website. Augusta University's distinct characteristics in education and research include real-world experiences and community engagement, as well as partnerships addressing health, security, economic and societal concerns locally and across the state.

Information about the University System of Georgia (USG) and its core values can be found online at the USG website and related policy pages. Freedom of Expression is supported as stated in USG policy.

The Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University provides dental education through hands-on learning, patient care, and research. The DCG serves patients across Georgia in multiple practice models and clinics.

Supervise all aspects of dental laboratory activities. Responsible for overall organization, employee utilization, and general operation of the dental laboratory. Ensure that employees comply with AU policies and regulations. Evaluate employees and provide advice, counsel, and disciplinary action as required. Perform annual performance appraisals for employees in coordination with department managers. Fabricate all types of precision fixed dental prosthetic restorations for students, residents, and faculty members at the Dental College of Georgia.

The duties include, but are not limited to:

• SUPERVISION:
  Supervise all aspects of dental laboratory activities. Responsible for overall organization, employee utilization, and general operation of the lab. Ensure that employees comply with MCG policies and regulations.
• EVALUATE AND ADVISE:
  Evaluate employees and provide advice, counsel, and disciplinary action as required. Perform annual MCG performance appraisals in coordination with the department chairman.
• QUALITY CONTROL AND COMPLIANCE:
  Monitor quality control of all aspects of lab activities and products. Ensure prostheses are fabricated to the highest quality in compliance with work authorization. Employ the Lab Manager program to monitor progress and employee effort.
• MICROSCOPIC TECHNOLOGY:
  Use microscopic technology to ensure the highest level of margin integrity, design and fabricate metal and porcelain fused to metal single and multi-unit dental prostheses as prescribed by work authorization (waxing, investing, casting, porcelain application, finishing, and polishing). Use microscopic technology to ensure the highest level of margin integrity, design and fabricate all-ceramic single and multi-unit dental prostheses as prescribed by work authorization (CAD/CAM scanning, designing, milling, finishing, and polishing).
• OTHER DUTIES:
  Perform all other job-related duties as assigned.

High School Diploma, GED or equivalent from a recognized state or federal accrediting organization or Dental Laboratory Technician certification with 10-15 years of experience of high quality laboratory operations and/or service training; above average technical ability and a high level of productivity are essential; working knowledge of fixed laboratory equipment and materials; ability to operate and perform preventive maintenance of dental equipment and machinery used for the manufacture/fabrication of dental appliances;

knowledge of dental anatomy, tooth morphology, and anatomical structure; excellent eye-hand coordination;…