Lab Manager (Blood Bank / Microbiology) - DAY SHIFT

Job Description

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

Job Description

• Manage a team of professional staff responsible for scientific research projects and research facilities.
• Ensures compliance of research activities with institutional, state, and federal regulatory policies, procedures, directives, and mandates.
• Manages, maintains, and ensures laboratory compliance to the human subjects (IRB), biosafety (IBC), and animal usage (IACUC) protocols.
• Coordinates with the departmental safety officer to ensure compliance of lab protocols, and assists with the onboarding of new personnel.
• Advises other researchers on long-range plans for research projects, including funding, experimental design, and data analysis.
• Solves complex problems relating to the administration of various projects, including planning, and adapting experimental procedures, designing new protocols to achieve project goals, and making other significant contributions to lab methodologies.
• Develop goals and operating procedures, practices, and guidelines for research activity based on departmental strategy.
• Manage the laboratory facilities, including the purchase of new equipment and the maintenance and repair of existing laboratory equipment.
• Provides 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.
• Solves 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.
• Guides data collection, evaluation and analysis. Designs and manages databases. Writes reports, articles and manuscripts.
• Performs other related work as needed.