Histotechnologist III

<h2≥Job Overview:</h2≥<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"≥<span style="font-size: 14pt;"≥Covance is hiring a Histologist III for our Los Angeles, CA location</span≥</p≥<p style="margin: 0px;"≥ </p≥<p style="margin: 0px;"≥Essential Functions <br /≥♦ Provides informal leadership to department staff through mentoring and coaching.<br /≥♦ Oversee training activities within the department to ensure accuracy, quality, and consistency. Ensure area personnel are appropriately trained to support on-going routine production. Ensure training is completed as scheduled, and is properly documented prior to the individual testing and reporting patient results.<br /≥♦ Ensure competency is completed, as scheduled, by periodic review of competency documentation.<br /≥♦ Oversee the timely and accurate development of training materials and checklists for the department/sites.<br /≥♦ Provide on-going guidance, and support to department staff for training needs.<br /≥♦ May provide feedback to management on staff performance evaluations.<br /≥Essential Functions – Technical/Scientific<br /≥♦ Act as a consultant to the lab management, internal customers, and clients in all technical/scientific facets relating to departmental activity.<br /≥o Manage inquiries/requests for supporting documentation regarding data, test methodologies, new test codes, worksheets, and other internal customer/client needs.<br /≥o Attend customer team meetings, and participate in client conference calls where needed.<br /≥o Serve as site resource to provide guidance/direction to global sites for implementation of new processes/changes, and facilitate resolution of global issues.<br /≥o Drive timely implementation of new assay validations, instruments, and equipment according to SOPs.<br /≥<br /≥Essential Functions – Operations/Processes<br /≥♦ Serves as a subject matter expert (SME) for new initiatives, Six Sigma projects, and other<br /≥process improvement projects.<br /≥♦ Effectively utilizes performance measures/metrics to identify potential opportunities to drive<br /≥improvements in quality, cost, cycle time, and service.<br /≥♦ Performs research to support requests for new instruments/equipment needed to implement<br /≥new assays, improve productivity, and reduce costs. Works with potential vendors, and<br /≥provides necessary information to internal customers for implementation.<br /≥♦ Oversee delegation of workflow. Ensures the efficient operation of workstations and areas of<br /≥responsibility to ensure timely resulting of quality data.<br /≥♦ With management, may lead cross-site harmonization efforts.<br /≥♦ Provide support to management for relationships with vendors to ensure company resource<br /≥needs are met and issues are addressed.<br /≥Non-Essential Functions<br /≥♦ Only individuals that are verified to qualify as supervisory personnel under<br /≥regulations/standards applicable to the facility (e.g., New York State, CLIA, CAP) may<br /≥perform periodic review and approval of quality control program records (e.g. quality control<br /≥data, instrument logs, reagent logs). The SOPs applicable to the department should be<br /≥consulted to determine records that can be reviewed and approved.</p≥<h2≥Education/Qualifications:</h2≥<p style="margin: 0px;"≥<strong≥<span style="font-size: 10pt;"≥U. S. Requirements </span≥</strong≥</p≥<p style="margin: 0px;"≥ </p≥<p style="margin: 0px;"≥<span style="font-size: 10pt;"≥Individual must qualify as testing personnel under the following CLIA 1988 and New York State <br /≥Department of Health requirements: <br /≥• Bachelor’s degree in Medical Technology or Clinical Laboratory Science or other life science with completion of at least a 12-month training program in Medical Technology. <br /≥OR <br /≥Revised:28 Mar 2016 Page 4 of 7 <br /≥• Bachelor’s degree in a chemical, physical or biological science from an accredited college or university and one year training and/or experience in the specialty in which testing is to be performed.  Such training must be equivalent to that received in a school of Medical Technology. <br /≥OR • 90 semester hours from an accredited institution that include the following: 1) 16 semester hours of biology courses, which are pertinent to the medical sciences 2) 16 semester hours of chemistry (at least 6 semester hours of Inorganic Chemistry) 3) 3 semester hours of math • Completed an accredited clinical laboratory training program, or one year documented laboratory training or experience in the specialty that testing is to be performed.  <br /≥OR • Associate’s degree in medical laboratory technology <br /≥ <br /≥NOTE: Technologist IIIs who perform supervisory function must qualify as NYS Supervisor under Title 10 NYCRR Part 58-1.3, which includes, but is not limited to the following: <br /≥ The supervisor is qualified as a medical technologist pursuant to the provisions of section 58-1.5(b) and has had at least six years of pertinent clinical laboratory experience subsequent to qualifying of which at least two years have been spent working in a clinical laboratory having a director at the doctoral level. The clinical laboratory or blood bank shall be part of a hospital, university, health department, medical research institution or other institution which provides equivalent training.</span≥</p≥<h2≥Experience:</h2≥<p style="margin: 0px;"≥<span style="font-size: 10pt;"≥ <strong≥Experience:</strong≥ <br /≥ <br /≥Minimum Required:  Individual must have 3 or more years of Covance Laboratory experience performing clinical laboratory testing or experience in performing clinical laboratory testing judged as equivalent. </span≥</p≥