Supervisor Clinical Lab

Natera
San Carlos, CA
On-site

Who this role is best for

Best suited to candidates with leadership experience in clinical laboratories working in the healthcare and diagnostics domain.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with leadership experience in clinical laboratories and a background in medical or biological sciences
    — “Bachelor's degree in medical technology, laboratory science, chemical, physical, or biological sciences with 4.5+ years of industry-related experience”
  • Individuals who can act as a liaison between staff and senior management while maintaining regulatory compliance
    — “serve as a liaison between employees and senior management to meet company goals and quality objectives”
  • Candidates who can manage team dynamics and ensure alignment with departmental goals
    — “Ensures alignment with team for reasoning behind instructions/processes and changes”

Things to consider

  • Must be licensed in California if applying for this role
    — “Current CA State CGMBS or CLS license is required for roles in California.”
  • The role may require hands-on involvement in daily lab tasks
    — “May assist lab team in day-to-day tasks”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in coaching and training lab staff in your resume and interviews
    — “Oversees training and development of all staff members”
  • Emphasize your ability to document and resolve nonconformances in lab processes
    — “Document nonconformances and all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate”
  • Demonstrate your ability to lead shift meetings and manage team morale effectively
    — “Plans and leads shift meetings. Meets regularly with individual team members to discuss goals and progress”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • ensuring production work is completed according to goals
  • training and development of staff
  • handling employee issues
  • interdepartmental team interaction
Typical background
clinical laboratory experienceleadership experiencequality control

Skills & requirements

Required

SupervisionPerformance ManagementTrainingSOP AdherenceTeam DevelopmentQuality ControlInterdepartmental CollaborationProblem Solving

Preferred

Project Management

Stack & domain

Clinical LaboratoryData ReviewSopsTrainingData ManagementLeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingTeamworkDecision-makingCgmbsCLSHealthcare

About the role

Original posting from Natera via Greenhouse

Position Summary

The Supervisor of the clinical laboratory is a member of the Operations Department whose role is to oversee employees' performance and serve as a liaison between employees and senior management to meet company goals and quality objectives. The supervisor is responsible for daily supervision of lab staff performing duties such as laboratory testing and data review. Duties include but are not limited to coaching, motivating, staffing, evaluating,

and training staff. The supervisor works closely with the manager to ensure company and team goals are met while adhering to good manufacturing practices and CLIA/CAP guidelines.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

 Provides direct supervision to professional individual contributors and/or skilled, support individual contributors

 Ensures production work is consistently completed according to department goals.

 Administers company policies that directly affect subordinate employees.

 Monitors team members to ensure adherence to SOPs and safety procedures

 Oversees training and development of all staff members

 Document nonconformances and all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the established performance specifications as needed. Escalates protocol deviation to lead/supervisor.

Handles employee issues in collaboration with the department manager and Human Resources. 

 Ensures alignment with team for reasoning behind instructions/processes and changes

Plans and leads shift meetings. Meets regularly with individual team members to discuss goals and progress

Go-to person when manager is not present.

May assist lab team in day-to-day tasks

Keeps team morale up and maintains professionalism of team members, including by acting as role model.

Identifies trends and issues and effectively executes solutions

 Actively interacts with interdepartmental teams such as OPS, Accessioning, Engineering, Stats, R&D, and Support.

Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

 Bachelor's degree in medical technology, laboratory science, chemical, physical, or biological sciences with 4.5+ years of industry-related experience with at least two years working in a clinical laboratory or Master's Degree in medical technology, laboratory science, chemical, physical, or biological sciences with 2+ years of industry-related experience with at least two years working in a clinical laboratory

Current CA State CGMBS or CLS license is required for roles in California.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

 Proven leadership experience

 Able to take on own projects with little supervision.

 Excellent interpersonal, communication, and computer skills

 Excellent oral and written communication skills.

  • Word processing and data management skills.

Compensation & Total Rewards 

This range reflects a good-faith estimate of the base pay we reasonably expect to offer at the time of  hire. Final compensation will vary based on experience, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

This position is also eligible for additional compensation and benefits through Natera’s robust Total Rewards program, including:

Annual performance incentive bonus

Long-term equity awards

Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision)

401(k) with company match

Generous paid time off and company holidays

Additional wellness and work-life benefits

Compensation Range $100,200—$161,200 USDOUR OPPORTUNITY

Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.

The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!

For more information, visit www.natera.com.

Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents. 

Link: https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/

Please be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @natera.com email domain ONLY. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. Natera takes cyber crimes seriously, and will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute any related cyber crimes.

For more information:

  • BBB announcement on job scams 
  • FBI Cyber Crime resource page 

Source: Natera careers (Greenhouse)

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