Associate Laboratory Director - Phoenix

Associate Laboratory Director - Phoenix at Exact Sciences summary:

The Associate Laboratory Director oversees clinical laboratory operations, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, quality control, and accurate reporting of test results. This role involves supervising personnel, validating new test methods, and collaborating with product development to support clinical diagnostics. The position requires advanced scientific or medical qualifications and significant experience in clinical laboratory management within a cancer diagnostics environment.

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Position Overview

The Principal Clinical Molecular Geneticist is responsible for the medical and technical oversight of the Clinical Laboratory including, but not limited to, the employment of personnel who perform test procedures, maintain technical and quality records, and report test results promptly, accurately, and proficiently and for assuring compliance with the applicable regulations.

Essential Duties

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Perform duties of clinical consultant, technical supervisor, general supervisor, and testing personnel, if qualified, as needed, or delegate these responsibilities to qualified personnel, while remaining responsible for ensuring that these delegated duties are properly performed.
• Ensure clinical laboratory duties are properly performed.
• Ensure educational programs, strategic planning, and research and development are appropriate to the needs of the laboratory.
• Remain accessible to the laboratory to provide on-site, telephone, or electronic consultation as needed.
• Ensure that the testing systems developed provide quality laboratory services for all aspects of test performance to include the pre-analytic, analytic, and post-analytic phases of testing.
• Ensure laboratory conditions are appropriate for testing performed and provide a safe environment in which employees are protected from hazards.
• Ensure that test methodologies have the capability of providing the quality of results required for patient care.
• Ensure appropriate test validation/verification procedures before implementing new tests in the laboratory. Interface with product development team to ensure tests’ development processes include laboratory regulations and operational needs.
• Ensure laboratory personnel are performing the test methods as required for accurate and reliable results.
• Ensure that quality control and assurance programs are established and maintained.
• Ensure the establishment and maintenance of acceptable levels of analytical performance for each test system.
• Ensure that patient test results are reported only when the test system is functioning properly and that remedial actions are taken and documented whenever significant deviations from established performance are identified.
• Ensure that test result reports include pertinent information required for interpretation.
• Ensure that consultation is available to clients on the quality of test results and their interpretation.
• Apply excellent written and verbal communication skills to convey difficult information in a clear, kind, and respectful manner.
• Ability to work in and contribute to a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.
• Ability to lift up to 10 pounds for approximately 5% of a typical working day.
• Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 80% of a typical working day.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to meet one of the…