Lab Quality Assurance Specialist

Intermountain Healthcare Inc.; Utah; On-site; USD 54,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Intermountain Health Utah Valley Hospital in Provo, Utah seeks a Quality Assurance Coordinator to support a comprehensive QA/QM program ensuring compliance with regulatory and accrediting bodies. The role focuses on system-wide quality improvements, SOP development, and error tracking across the laboratory.

The position emphasizes facility-wide policy integration, competency monitoring, and coordinating accreditation activities (CAP, CLIA, FDA). Day shifts; 40 hours weekly; benefits eligible.

Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor's degree in chemical/biological/clinical laboratory science; accredited program; degree 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.
• Oversight of document control and SOP development, review and updates.
• Monitoring and ensuring adherence to laboratory training and competency program.
• Tracking and reporting errors, KPIs, system monitors and metrics through auditing and quality improvement tools.
• Supports lab leadership in proficiency testing, validations, correlations, calibrations and change control.

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 laboratory/medical laboratory science

MLT/MLS(ASCP) certification or equivalent

Job description

Intermountain Health Utah Valley Hospital in Provo, Utah seeks a Quality Assurance Coordinator to support a comprehensive QA/QM program ensuring compliance with regulatory and accrediting bodies. The role focuses on system-wide quality improvements, SOP development, and error tracking across the laboratory.

The position emphasizes facility-wide policy integration, competency monitoring, and coordinating accreditation activities (CAP, CLIA, FDA). Day shifts; 40 hours weekly; benefits eligible.