Manager - Laboratory

It's more than a career, it's a calling WI-SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Join a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you'll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.

This is a full-time salaried Lab Manager position for the Histology/Pathology department at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison. Ideal candidates will have a Histotech or Cytology certification and a background in cytology and/or histology.

Department: Histology.Pathology Schedule: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday - may flex based on department needs

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Job Summary: Under general direction, manage the operations of assigned area(s) by acting as a technical advisor and by managing employees. Ensures appropriate resources, sets direction and manages employee performance.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements: PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Prioritizes the daily workflow by coordinating and delegating daily technical operations.

Manages or works directly on projects of moderate to complex scope.

Selects, schedules, and assigns staff, adjusting hours and shifts as necessary.

Evaluates activities of assigned area(s) to ensure patient care, staff relations, and efficiency of service.

Ensures compliance with QA/QC standards required by laboratory regulatory agencies.

Makes recommendations regarding the development of policies, goals and objectives.

Implements unit or clinic policies, goals, and objectives.

Monitors department financial performance.

May function in the Laboratory Director capacity during the absence of the Laboratory Director.

Acts as laboratory liaison to other departments.

Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.

Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience and education

EXPERIENCE

Five years' technical experience in a laboratory setting including two years' concurrent supervisory experience. .

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.

Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.

Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.

Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.

Frequent keyboard use/data entry.

Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.

Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.

Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

State of Work Location: Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin

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Work Shift: Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type:

Employee

Department:

3407000007 Lab - Surgical Path

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

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