Veracyte - General Supervisor, High Complexity CLIA Laboratory

Division/Department: Laboratory Operations
Location: South San Francisco
Reports to: Dr. William Seltzer, SVP, Laboratory Operations

Full-Time/Exempt

The General Supervisor of this High Complexity CLIA Laboratory is a hands-on position responsible for the day-to-day supervision and oversight of the clinical laboratory's operations and personnel performing testing and reporting of test results.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oredering and managing inventory and installation and qualification of laboratory supplies, reagents and equipment
• Ensuring operational compliance with the clinical laboratory's Quality Management Systems (QMS) Program and delivering the routine QMS associated metrics
• Training and proficiency in the laboratory's StandardOperating Procedures (SOPs) for clinical testing and knowledgeable in their quality control parameters
• Providing hands on back-up support to the testing personnel in the performance of all operational clinical tests as required to meet service imperative
• Training, supervising, and assessing the competency of testing personnel
• Providing day-to-day supervision of high complexity test performance by qualified testing personnel
• Monitoring test analyses and specimen examinations to ensure that acceptable levels of analytic performance are maintained
• Ensuring that patient test results are not reported until all corrective actions have been taken and the test system is properly functioning
• Providing orientation to all testing personnel
• Annually evaluating and documenting the performance of all testing personnel
• Coordinating laboratory activities to complement the duties and responsibilities of the Quality Assurance Manager
• Participate in the monthly QMS meetings, presenting activities and metric outcomes to review and assess compliance, developing and implementing remedial activity plans, as needed, and activities for quality improvement
• Coordinating activities and preparing for regulatory inspections
• Accountable for customer satisfaction
• Work cooperatively in a team environment: supproting senior laboratory and management staff

Education, Training, and Work Experience Requirements:

• The Supervisor holds a B.A., B.S., M.A. or M.S. in chemical, physical, or biological science from an accredited institution
• The Supervisor is qualified as a medical technologist and has had at least six years of pertinent clinical laboratory experience subsequent to qualifying, of which at least two years have been spent working in a clinical laboratory qualified to perform high complexity genetic testing and having a director at the doctoral level
• The Supervisor holds a current California State Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) license as a Clinical Genetics Molecular Biologist
• Practical and hands-on experience in Quality Management Systems (QMS)

Other Skills and Attributes:

• Excellent problem solving skills; demonstrated strength in tact and diplomacy with internal and external collaborators
• Ability to work independently; exercise good judgment
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Veracyte, Inc.
7000 Shoreline Ct., Ste. 250 South San Francisco, CA 94080
Phone: (650) 243-
jobs@veracyte.com