Title: Laboratory Supervisor / Laboratory Manager
Location: Woburn, MA
Schedule: M-F Full Time, occasional weekends and evenings
Type: Direct Hire

Responsibilities:

• Cord blood processing and storage
• Processing units, in addition to supervisory responsibilities, such as hiring, training and managing lab staff
• Validating, initiating, and optimizing processing and testing of units, hiring and training staff, and increasing lab capacity
• Will have 5-20 lab staff in the future
• This is an international organization with many years of experience in many European countries starting a brand new US operation. The entire operation is being built from the ‘ground up’- new laboratory, new staff, etc.

Requirements:
Experience with umbilical cord blood banking, as well as processing and storage of cord blood

7 years‘ experience in clinical blood bank laboratory in all areas (processing, testing, storage, release, etc.) and cellular therapy (stem cell) laboratory

• Current certification as Medical Technologist, Medical Laboratory Scientist, or similar; ASCP certification strongly preferred
• 3 years‘ experience in people management (lab staff), preferred
• 5 years of experience overseeing all technical aspects of tissue bank operations under the supervision of a medical director, preferred
• Ability to ensure quality control management and to set up corresponding processes
• Experience in ensuring the validation of laboratories, processes, procedures, and equipment
• Ability for teamwork, multitasking, regular reporting and performance of assigned tasks on time and in the required quality
• Experience with laboratory inspections, audits, proficiency testing, etc.
• Experienced in communicating with regulatory and licensing offices and official certification authorities is welcome

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