Laboratory Manager - Internal Medicine (ENDO)
Department:
SOM KC Internal Medicine - Endocrinology, Metabolism & Genetics
Position Title:
Laboratory Manager - Internal Medicine (ENDO)
Job Family Group:
Professional Staff
Job Description Summary:
The Lab Manager will oversee projects and manage the daily operations of the lab, ensuring optimal function and safety. This role is responsible for coordinating lab resources, ensuring safety and regulatory compliance, and managing quality assurance processes. The Lab Manager also plays a critical role in study design, data analysis, and outcome monitoring, while supporting the Principal Investigator (PI) in strategic planning and research design.
Job Duties Outlined
- Oversee laboratory projects to ensure they meet deadlines and objectives.
- Manage day-to-day lab operations.
- Provide guidance, support, and oversight to lab personnel to maintain a productive work environment.
- Assist the PI with coordinating lab supplies, repairs, preventative maintenance, quality assurance, and quality improvement processes.
- Serve as the lab safety officer, ensuring compliance with biohazard, chemical waste, and biosafety protocols.
- Manage quality assurance activities for specimen collection, handling, processing, and shipping.
- Participate in setting research project goals and developing the laboratory work plan.
- Contribute significantly to the planning/design of studies, including protocol development, data collection planning, database development, and statistical analysis.
- Interpret data, monitor outcomes, develop modifications, and provide data to PI.
- Participate in developing long or short-term goals and strategic business objectives.
- Supervise lab equipment, supplies, and inventory management.
- Maintain monitoring of laboratory freezers.
- Write and maintain SOPs and guidance documents to improve lab operations.
- Manage research compliance, including IRB, IACUC, and IBC requirements.
- Assist with development of budgets, pricing, and manage study-related expenses and revenues.
- Possess advanced knowledge of lab practices and direct and teach others in lab practices.
Required Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor's degree in biology, chemistry, or related disciplines. Experience may substitute for degree on a year for year basis.
Work Experience:
- 3 years' experience in a lab setting supporting basic and/or translational research.
- Experience with specimen handling.
Preferred Qualifications
Education:
Master's degree or higher in biology, chemistry, or related disciplines.
Work Experience:
5 years' experience or more in a research lab setting.
Skills
- Excellent time management.
- Multi-tasking, organizational, computer and interpersonal skills.
Required Documents
Comprehensive Benefits Package:
Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan. Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays. One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment. A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available.
Employee Type:
Regular
Time Type:
Full time
Rate Type:
Salary
Compensation Statement:
The pay range listed for this position is determined by our compensation program using market data and salary benchmarking. A combination of factors is considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, education, experience and training, qualifications relative to the requirements of the position, and funding. At the University of Kansas Medical Center, a reasonable estimate for the starting pay range will be the minimum to midpoint of the posted range, taking into account the combination of factors listed above.
Pay Range:
$58,000.00 - $86,000.00
Application Instructions:
To learn more and apply online, please visit the KU Medical Center website and search for position number JR007518. Applications must be submitted directly through the KU Medical Center website to be considered for this position. Any applications submitted via email or this website will NOT be reviewed or considered.
About KU Medical Center:
The University of Kansas Medical Center's mission is to educate exceptional health care professionals through a full range of undergraduate, graduate, professional, postdoctoral and continuing education programs in the schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions. KU Medical Center also advances the health sciences through world-class research programs; provides compassionate and state-of-the-art patient care in an academic medical center environment; and works with communities in every Kansas county to improve the health of Kansans. Learn more at www.kumc.edu.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:
The University of Kansas Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, age, protected veteran or disability status, marital status, parental status, or genetic information.
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