Laboratory Manager

Responsibility:

• Acquiring and maintaining accreditation of the laboratory according to ISO/IEC 17025:2017
• Manage and oversee department quality control documentation, review quality control, and take action to resolve quality control concerns.
• Documentation of all QC and QA within the department.
• Develop strategic skills by Identifying staff training needs and ensuring that staff members are qualified in terms of appropriate education, training, competence, and/or experience for their assigned tasks.
• Prioritize and facilitate implementation of process improvements across all testing sites thoroughly and effectively.
• Manage all lab operations and integration with other departments within the company/facility.
• Maintain a safe work environment that complies with all state, federal and company regulations.
• Manage lab personnel (i.e., training, hiring, performance evaluations, etc.).
• Authorizing reports and results.
• Develop and implement administrative and technical policies and procedures for resource utilization, financial performance service standards, and compliance with regulatory and accrediting agencies requirements.
• Evaluate new and existing test methodologies, current test mix, policy and procedure development/implementation, training, and compliance with regulatory and accrediting issues.
• Make recommendations for an alternative methodology of current procedures as indicated and coordinate changes as required.
• Monitor appropriate test utilization; develop and ensure compliance with all departmental policies, procedures for performance, quality control, and preventive maintenance.