Lab Manager (Blood Bank / Microbiology) - DAY SHIFT

Lab Manager (Blood Bank / Microbiology)

This 600+ bed medical center is seeking a full-time Lab Manager (Blood Bank / Microbiology).

Job responsibilities include:

• Managing a team of professional staff responsible for scientific research projects and research facilities.
• Ensuring compliance of research activities with institutional, state, and federal regulatory policies, procedures, directives, and mandates.
• Managing, maintaining, and ensuring laboratory compliance to the human subjects (IRB), biosafety (IBC), and animal usage (IACUC) protocols.
• Coordinating with the departmental safety officer to ensure compliance of lab protocols, and assisting with the onboarding of new personnel.
• Advising other researchers on long-range plans for research projects, including funding, experimental design, and data analysis.
• Solving complex problems relating to the administration of various projects, including planning, adapting experimental procedures, designing new protocols to achieve project goals, and making other significant contributions to lab methodologies.
• Developing goals and operating procedures, practices, and guidelines for research activity based on departmental strategy.
• Managing the laboratory facilities, including the purchase of new equipment and the maintenance and repair of existing laboratory equipment.
• Providing logistical support for the smooth running of the lab, including ordering, organization, stocking, personnel management, and conflict resolution.
• Job duties will involve the generation of human-derived intestinal organoid lines, cultivation of various aerobic and anaerobic bacterial strains, various protocols investigating the metabolomic response of mixed microbial communities, DNA and RNA extractions and analyses from a variety of biological samples, and statistical/bioinformatics work related to grant writing and manuscript generation.
• Solving complex problems relating to the administration of projects, including planning new procedures, adapting existing procedures to the needs of the project, and making significant contributions to methodology.
• Guiding data collection, evaluation and analysis. Designing and managing databases. Writing reports, articles and manuscripts.
• Performing other related work as needed.

Job requirements include:

• Lab leadership experience (Manager/Supervisor)
• Bachelor's degree in Medical Lab Science or related field
• ASCP or AMT certification (MT or MLS)
• Experience/skills in: bacterial, bioinformatics, blood bank, collection, data analysis, DNA, microbiology

Interested? Reach out to Caroline via email ([email protected]) or phone (617-746-2746). You can also schedule a time to chat using this link.

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