Laboratory Technical Coordinator

CommonSpirit Health • Chattanooga, TN

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About The Position

As a Laboratory Technical Coordinator , you will be responsible for the technical and scientific management of one or more laboratory sections, ensuring compliance and quality. Key responsibilities include: Personnel Management: Training, coaching, and evaluating lab staff competency, ensuring adherence to policies and ethics. Identifying training needs and providing regular in-service education. Operational Oversight: Managing daily lab operations, making critical decisions, and overseeing inventory of supplies and equipment. Quality Assurance: Selecting appropriate test methodologies, verifying procedures, establishing performance characteristics (precision, accuracy), and administering a robust quality control program. Ensuring remedial actions are taken when test systems deviate and that patient results are accurate. Technical Expertise: Assisting with and resolving technical problems. Qualifying and functioning as a CLIA-defined Technical Consultant. This role ensures the lab maintains high standards for testing, reporting, and staff proficiency, ultimately delivering reliable results.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in a chemical or biological science as defined by CLIA.
• 2 years clinical lab experience in the designed lab area/speciality
• Tennessee: MT-L:TN

Responsibilities

• Technical and scientific management of one or more laboratory sections
• Ensuring compliance and quality
• Training, coaching, and evaluating lab staff competency
• Ensuring adherence to policies and ethics
• Identifying training needs and providing regular in-service education
• Managing daily lab operations
• Making critical decisions
• Overseeing inventory of supplies and equipment
• Selecting appropriate test methodologies
• Verifying procedures
• Establishing performance characteristics (precision, accuracy)
• Administering a robust quality control program
• Ensuring remedial actions are taken when test systems deviate
• Ensuring patient results are accurate
• Assisting with and resolving technical problems
• Qualifying and functioning as a CLIA-defined Technical Consultant
• Maintaining high standards for testing, reporting, and staff proficiency
• Delivering reliable results

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees