Laboratory QA & Compliance Coordinator

Intermountain Healthcare Inc.; Billings (MT); On-site; USD 54,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Intermountain Health St Vincent Regional Hospital in Billings, MT is seeking a Quality Assurance Coordinator to support a comprehensive QA/QM program and ensure compliance with regulatory agencies, adapting to corrective actions as needed.

Under the Laboratory Director, you will implement a standard quality program, manage document control, training, and KPIs, and coordinate accreditation activities with CAP/CLIA/AABB/FDA to improve system-wide policies and practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor/associate degree in laboratory science; degree verified.
• Certifications required: MLT/MLS(ASCP) or equivalent.
• At least 3 years of technical lab or QA 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 or clinical laboratory/medical laboratory science

MLT/MLS(ASCP) certification or equivalent

Three years of technical laboratory or laboratory quality assurance experience

Job description

Intermountain Health St Vincent Regional Hospital in Billings, MT is seeking a Quality Assurance Coordinator to support a comprehensive QA/QM program and ensure compliance with regulatory agencies, adapting to corrective actions as needed.

Under the Laboratory Director, you will implement a standard quality program, manage document control, training, and KPIs, and coordinate accreditation activities with CAP/CLIA/AABB/FDA to improve system-wide policies and practices.