Medical Education Associate Lab Manager

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

Job summary

Highridge Medical in Westminster, CO seeks a Laboratory Manager to oversee day-to-day operations, training programs, and labs safety in cadaveric settings.

You will coordinate curriculum content, manage staffing, materials, and equipment, and ensure compliance while delivering high-quality educational experiences for surgeons and staff. This role requires an advanced degree and 3–5 years in clinical or lab environments, with strong organizational, budgeting, and cross-team collaboration skills.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree with a minimum of 3-5 years of in clinical or laboratory experience.
• Lab management experience with strong attention to detail and safety.
• Strong communicator with the ability to collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, and coordinate product training programs for field support personnel and customers.
• Maintains communication with customers to ensure effectiveness of training.
• 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 inventory levels and equipment repairs.

Skills

Lab management

Budgeting

Team leadership

Safety compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Advanced degree (MS/PhD preferred)

Job description

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 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%

Annual Salary $85,000- $115,000.00

About Us

Welcome to the Highridge Medical's Career Page. Highridge Medical is committed to improving spine care by partnering with the surgeon community to drive innovation. The company has a compelling and comprehensive portfolio supported by extensive clinical evidence, including solutions for complex spine, motion preservation, minimally invasive surgery, biologics, and enabling technologies. For additional information, please visit www.highridgemedical.com.