Medical Education Associate Lab Manager

Highridge Medical; Westminster (MD); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Highridge Medical seeks a Medical Education Associate Lab Manager to oversee cadaver lab programs at the Highridge Institute in Westminster, CO. The role focuses on clinical education, surgeon training, and surgical product education with strong emphasis on safety and regulatory compliance.

You will coordinate multiple stakeholders, ensure high-quality experiences for surgeons and staff, and manage day-to-day operations, scheduling, and budgeting for educational activities.

Qualifications

• Advance degree with clinical or laboratory experience.
• Experience coordinating cadaveric or surgical education programs.
• Strong safety and compliance mindset.

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, and coordinate training programs for field staff and customers.
• Prepare training materials and determine methodology for delivery.
• Ensure training meets company and customer objectives.
• Maintain communication with customers to ensure training effectiveness.
• Lead and review work of team members to achieve operational goals.
• Conduct labs in safe, compliant environments following regulatory requirements.
• Manage inventory, equipment repairs, and specimen handling.
• Respond to technical questions regarding product care and maintenance.

Skills

Lab management

Budgeting

Safety compliance

Team collaboration

Communication

Organizational skills

Education

Advanced degree in clinical or laboratory field

Job description

Medical Education Associate Lab Manager

Job Summary

Highridge Medical creates the world’s most innovative spinal solutions across the spectrum from Motion Preservation to MIS to Core Spine. Working at Highridge Medical is not just work. Life at Highridge Medical is purpose driven. Every day, you have the privilege of using your talents to demonstrate Confidence in your work and restore Confidence for our patients. Confidence that moves.

The Associate Laboratory Manager is responsible for the day-to-day management, operational readiness, and strategic development of the organization’s surgical training programs at the Highridge Institute in Westminster, CO. This position supports hands-on medical education, surgeon training, product development, and clinical education activities by ensuring that cadaver lab programs are executed safely, efficiently, compliantly, and to a high professional standard

The ideal candidate has strong knowledge of cadaveric anatomy, surgical education, spine or orthopedic procedures, medical device training, and laboratory operations, with the ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and deliver a high-quality experience for surgeons, faculty, employees, and internal teams.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, and coordinates product training programs for field support personnel and customers.
• Obtains information needed to prepare training programs, training materials; develops course content, determines methodology; and coordinates the development of training aids.
• Ensures training program(s) meets company and customer objectives.
• Maintains communication with customers to ensure effectiveness of training.
• May utilize trainers with technical expertise.
• Continuously revise plans to meet new training requirements and to keep technical information up to date.
• Leads, directs, and reviews the work of team members to accomplish operational plans and results
• Conducts labs in a safe, secure, and clean environment, following regulatory requirements.
• Manages and executes logistical set up, setting up, dismantling and cleaning of laboratory equipment.
• Manages inventory levels and equipment repairs.
• Manages specimen ordering, recorded keeping and finial disposition of all material, including human anatomical material.
• Answers technical questions regarding proper selection, care and maintenance of products.
• Provides input to hiring, promotion, performance and rewards decisions
• Night and weekend work as required
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile.
• The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers.
• During regular assigned duties, the employee may be required to properly utilize personal protective equipment including but not limited to; safety shoes, safety glasses, goggles, hard hats, air purifying respirator or supplied air respiratory protection.
• The employee must be able to lift 45 pounds per job requirement.
• Comfort level with handling human anatomical material

Must Haves

• Lab management experience with strong attention to detail and safety.
• Highly organized with excellent time management and prioritization skills.
• Strong communicator with the ability to collaborate across teams and present effectively.
• Adaptable, proactive problem-solver who works well with minimal direction.
• Comfortable working with human anatomical material and physically able to lift specimens/equipment.
• Solid financial management skills, including budgeting and vendor oversight.
• Able to set boundaries, manage competing stakeholders’ needs, and maintain sustainable workloads.

This is not an exhaustive list of duties or functions and might not necessarily comprise all of the essential functions for purposes of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Education/Experience Requirements

• Advance degree with a minimum of 3-5 years of in clinical or laboratory experience.

Travel and Location Requirements

• approximately 20%
• Colorado based (In-person, onsite)

Annual Salary $85,000- $115,000.00