Laboratory Manager

Job Summary

Laboratory Manager maintains medical laboratory equipment performance by establishing quality standards; developing operations, quality, and troubleshooting procedures; ensuring staff compliance; certifying instrument performance; arranging equipment replacement, service, and repair.

Job Responsibilities 1

Be familiar with the regulatory requirements specific to the lab and ensures all users are incompliance with those standards.

Review research protocols of internal and external research groups in an effort to stay abreast as to what research projects are occurring in the lab at any given time.

Update and maintain the Lab Safety Plan and Manual.

Oversees laboratory safety and ensures that the laboratory remains in compliance with all local, state regulations.

Ensures all reagents and supplies are available when needed.

Manages and updates Chemical inventories and/or Risk Group Agent inventories.

Job Responsibilities 2

Communicates and enforces laboratory safety rules to internal and external researchers working in the lab.

Ensures all users of the lab are wearing the appropriate PPE.

Ensures lab users have been trained on the correct use of the lab equipment, in addition to mentoring and disciplining lab users for not following safety policies/procedures that have been established for the lab.

Schedules safety training for new lab users and retraining for lab users who are in need of refresher training to include but not be limited to: equipment training, safety training and/or lab safety plan reviews and ensure the training has been documented.

Ensures that the laboratory is cleaned/sanitized and kept in an orderly manner.

Ensures all instrumentations/equipment is functioning properly and when instruments/equipment is found to be in need of maintenance/repair, contacts the Equipment Engineer to have it repaired.

Additional Responsibilities 3

Job Knowledge & Skills

• Working knowledge of product and chemical TestingExcellent managerial skills.Ability to multitask.Expert knowledge of laboratory health and safety protocols.Ability and drive to solve practical problems.Strong organizational skills.Project management skills, including the ability to track and manage inventory.Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business inquiries, including technical RFQ/RFP.

• ERP knowledge preferably SAP functional skills are a requirement to be successful in this role.

Job Experience

10 years Total

8 years On Job

2 years GCC

Competencies

Education