Lead QC & Compliance Technologist, Cellular Therapy Lab

UChicago Medicine; Illinois; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

UChicago Medicine Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine in Chicago’s Hyde Park invites applications for a Lead Quality & Compliance Technologist in the Advanced Cellular Therapeutics Laboratory. You will oversee QA/QC for technologists, generate quality dashboards, and liaise with the program QA manager to ensure compliance with GLP for stem cell procedures.

Based in the greater Chicagoland area, this 100% on-site role emphasizes collaboration with RN/PA/physician teams and meticulous data

Qualifications

• BA or BS, required.
• Availability to work some evenings, weekends, and holidays required.
• Adaptability to multiple, changing demands is essential and requires exceptional organizational skills and ability to work under potential stressful scenarios
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to deal with multi-disciplinary team, patients, and outside collaborators
• Ability to act in a professional manner with individuals at all levels
• Knowledge and ability to use automated and conventional laboratory equipment
• Considerable skill in maintaining records and files
• Possess good analytical capabilities

Responsibilities

• Supervise QA/QC functions of technologists
• Oversee monthly QA/QC activities
• Generate Quality Dashboard indicators and trending including data analysis
• Liaise for the clinical lab with the program QA manager
• Review monthly the Cell Lab equipment and environmental monitoring system graphs
• Lead calibrations and verifications on quality systems
• Process, manipulates and cryopreserves specimens
• Reinfuse specimens at patient bedside with RN/PA/physician
• Ensure GLP requirements for stem cell transplant procedures
• Maintain sterile or aseptic technique as required
• Learn and adopt new procedures and upgrades
• Coordinate with ancillary departments as needed
• Display initiative and adapt to procedural changes
• Communicate updates to oncoming shift
• Update and maintain computer databases
• Label blood product containers
• Maintain location records for all specimens
• Ensure requisite paperwork is complete for harvest/reinfusion
• Prepare reports and inventory worksheets
• Complete daily temperature logs and QC logs
• Monitor storage facilities (LN2, CO2, refrigerators, incubators)
• Schedule QA testing and equipment repairs
• Move and connect tanks
• Select data from databases for analysis
• Update patient storage status reports

Skills

QA/QC supervision

Data analysis

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

BA or BS

Tools

LIMS

Automated lab equipment

Job description

UChicago Medicine Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine in Chicago’s Hyde Park invites applications for a Lead Quality & Compliance Technologist in the Advanced Cellular Therapeutics Laboratory. You will oversee QA/QC for technologists, generate quality dashboards, and liaise with the program QA manager to ensure compliance with GLP for stem cell procedures.

Based in the greater Chicagoland area, this 100% on-site role emphasizes collaboration with RN/PA/physician teams and meticulous data