Clinical Lab Supervisor (Full Time)

Schweiger Dermatology Group • NY - Pathology, NY

3d • $88,580 - $103,343

About The Position

The Clinical Lab Supervisor leads daily operations of the clinical pathology laboratory and supports accurate, timely testing across chemistry, immunoassay, hematology, and allergy testing. The role oversees workflow, staff, quality activities, equipment readiness, and laboratory records while ensuring compliance with CLIA, OSHA, HIPAA, manufacturer instructions, and applicable state and local requirements.

This is a full-time position of 30 or more hours per week, with availability Monday through Friday and flexibility to help provide team coverage. Operational needs may require travel to alternate locations within a reasonable distance for training, implementation, or coverage.

The position operates in a professional work environment and routinely uses standard office equipment, including computers, telephones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines. The employee is regularly required to talk, hear, see, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. Applicable New York pathology laboratory and Mohs clinic positions are mandated W-2 employment positions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in medical laboratory science, clinical laboratory science, biology, chemistry, or a related scientific discipline.
• At least 4 years of progressive clinical laboratory experience, including demonstrated lead, training, or supervisory responsibility.
• Meet the education, training, experience, and licensure requirements applicable to assigned CLIA personnel role(s) and the state(s) where testing is performed.
• Working knowledge of CLIA quality-system expectations, laboratory safety, quality control, calibration, maintenance, competency assessment, corrective action, and proficiency testing.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, organization, and computer skills, including the ability to work with laboratory information systems and EMR interfaces.
• Availability Monday through Friday and flexibility to help cover in a team environment.
• Ability to travel to alternate locations within a reasonable distance when operational business needs require it.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced laboratory certification or relevant state licensure.
• Experience with automated chemistry, immunoassay, hematology, or allergy testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, train, and direct laboratory personnel; assign work according to workflow, competency, and staffing coverage.
• Plan daily testing workflow, prioritize urgent work, monitor turnaround time, and escalate testing, staffing, or specimen issues that could affect patient care.
• Maintain staff training and competency documentation and ensure personnel perform only duties for which they are trained, assessed, and authorized.
• Oversee specimen receipt, accessioning, labeling, processing, testing, result-review workflow, send-outs, and customer-service follow-up as applicable.
• Ensure quality control, calibration, maintenance, function checks, corrective action, and proficiency-testing activities are completed, documented, reviewed, and escalated as required.
• Investigate quality events, nonconforming specimens, instrument errors, QC failures, and interface issues; document corrective action and follow through to resolution.
• Ensure analyzers are operated and maintained according to manufacturer instructions, and ensure supplies, reagents, calibrators, controls, and consumables are available and meet storage and expiration requirements.
• Maintain complete and accurate laboratory records, including QC, maintenance, temperature monitoring, training, competency, inventory, corrective action, and patient-testing documentation.
• Coordinate with the laboratory director, reference laboratories, courier partners, IT, vendors, and office teams to resolve operational issues.
• Support validation, verification, implementation, policy and procedure updates, and ongoing quality improvement for new tests, instruments, and interfaces.
• Follow laboratory safety, infection-control, hazardous-waste, privacy, and security practices.
• Travel to alternate locations for training, implementation, or operational coverage when business needs require it.
• Perform other duties assigned by leadership consistent with the needs of the clinical laboratory.

Benefits

• Medical insurance, including virtual care, HSA/FSA, dental, and vision coverage for eligible full-time employees, beginning the first of the month after hire.
• 401(k) eligibility after 30 days of employment.
• Company-sponsored short-term disability for non-California employees.
• Pre-tax savings for public transit commuters.
• An additional personal holiday for the employee’s birthday.
• Employee discounts on Schweiger skin care products and cosmetic services.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager