Lab QA Coordinator: Drive Compliance & Improvement

Intermountain Healthcare; Murray (UT); On-site; USD 54,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Intermountain Healthcare, based at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, UT, seeks a Quality Assurance Coordinator to lead and sustain a comprehensive QA/QM program ensuring compliance with regulatory and accrediting bodies.

The role emphasizes developing standard quality processes, document control, training adherence, and system-wide policy integration, with focus on CAP/CLIA/AABB/FDA readiness and continuous quality improvement.

Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor’s degree in chemical/biological or clinical laboratory/medical laboratory science. Education must be obtained through an accredited institution. Degree will be verified.
• MLT/MLS(ASCP) certification or equivalent
• Three years of technical laboratory or laboratory quality assurance experience

Responsibilities

• Promotes and supports the One Intermountain philosophy.
• Developing and implementing a standard quality program.
• Oversite of document control and SOP development, review and updates.
• Monitoring and ensuring adherence to laboratory training and competency program.
• Ensuring improved, system-wide integration of policies, procedures and competencies.
• Keeping current on regulatory and compliance issues and communicating updates and changes to laboratory leadership.
• Tracking and reporting errors, KPIs, system monitors and metrics through auditing and implementing quality improvement tools.
• Oversite of lab applications related to error management, quality assurance and education.
• Supports lab leadership in proficiency testing, validations, correlations, calibrations, instrument implementation, error documentation, root cause analysis and change control.
• Supports and manages accrediting body (i.e. CAP, CLIA, AABB, FDA, etc.) applications/updates, coordinates inspections and oversees responses to deficiencies from on-site inspections.

Skills

Computer literacy

Communication

Regulatory knowledge

Laboratory Techniques and Protocols

Documentation

Report writing

Working Independently

Critical thinking

Driving

Education

Associate or Bachelor’s degree in chemical/biological/clinical lab science

MLT/MLS(ASCP) certification or equivalent

Tools

MS Office

Laboratory Information System (LIS)

Job description

Intermountain Healthcare, based at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, UT, seeks a Quality Assurance Coordinator to lead and sustain a comprehensive QA/QM program ensuring compliance with regulatory and accrediting bodies.

The role emphasizes developing standard quality processes, document control, training adherence, and system-wide policy integration, with focus on CAP/CLIA/AABB/FDA readiness and continuous quality improvement.