Manager Laboratory

Karmanos Cancer Institute; Mount Clemens (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren Health Care in Grand Blanc, Michigan, seeks a Laboratory Services Director to provide overall technical direction and administration of laboratory personnel, ensuring testing services run efficiently and in compliance with standards.

You will lead budgeting, capital projects, and cross-functional collaboration with senior management, physicians, and external partners to elevate quality and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in medical technology or related field.
• At least three years of progressive management experience in an acute care setting.
• Experience coordinating with senior management, physicians and external providers.

Responsibilities

• Plans and administers direct and through supervisory staff the delivery of diagnostic laboratory procedures.
• Ensures quality, financial, and customer service objectives are met.
• Develops, secures approval of and administers budgets to meet goals.
• Serves as technical resource to staff for complex problems and incident investigations.
• Reviews and approves equipment modifications and purchases.
• Recommends major capital expenses and initiates vendor bidding.

Skills

Laboratory management

Budget management

Regulatory compliance

Quality control

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in medical technology or related field

Master’s degree in medical technology, business administration or health services administration

Job description

McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.

Provides overall technical direction and administration to laboratory personnel, ensuring system of laboratory testing operates efficiently and effectively.Regularly reviews and revises, as necessary, laboratory standards and ensures diagnostic procedures performed comply with all hospital, system and regulatory agency standards.Coordinates provision of laboratory services with other medical functions and serves as technical resource for departmental personnel. Meets and consults with system director of laboratory for policies, procedures, forms, instrumentation, equipment, supplies, and LIS to promote standardization across the system.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• 1.Plans and administers directly, and through subordinate supervisory personnel, the effective management and delivery of diagnostic laboratory procedures in accordance with all hospital, system and regulatory agency standards.
• 2.Ensures quality, financial, and customer service objectives are met.
• 3. Develops, secures approval of and administers capital and operating budgets in order to meet agreed-upon departmental goals and objectives.Develops and implements appropriate methods to monitor adherence to budgets and resolve variances.
• 4.Serves as technical resource to subordinates in resolving complex problems and in investigating and recommending corrective actions in response to incident reports and/or patient complaints.
• 5.Reviews and approves recommendations for department equipment modifications, new supplies, and minor equipment purchases.
• 6.Recommends and secures approval of major capital expense items initiating bidding process with vendors and upon approval, warding bids.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in medical technology or related fields.
• Three years progressively more responsible management experience in an acute care facility with at least one year of frequent involvement with senior management, physicians, other health care providers, and external providers and purchasers.

Preferred:

• Master’s degree in medical technology, business administration or health services administration.

Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans

Additional Information

• Schedule: Full-time
• Daily Work Times: 8:00am-4:30pm
• On Call: No

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.