Medical Education Associate Lab Manager

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

Job summary

Highridge Medical is seeking an Associate Laboratory Manager to lead the day-to-day management of the organization’s surgical training programs at the Highridge Institute in Westminster, CO. You will support hands-on medical education, surgeon training, product development, and clinical education activities, ensuring cadaver labs are conducted safely and compliantly.

The role requires an advance degree with 3-5 years of clinical or laboratory experience, strong budgeting and vendor oversight

Qualifications

• Lab management experience with strong attention to detail and safety.
• Highly organized with excellent time management and prioritization skills.
• Strong communicator who collaborates across teams and presents effectively.
• Adaptable, proactive problem-solver who works well with minimal direction.
• Comfortable working with human anatomical material and lifting specimens.

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, and coordinate product training programs for field support and customers.
• Prepare training materials, determine methodology, and coordinate aids.
• Ensure training programs meet company and customer objectives.
• Maintain communication with customers to evaluate training effectiveness.
• Lead labs in a safe, compliant environment and manage equipment setup.
• Oversee inventory, specimen ordering, and disposition of materials.
• Provide input to hiring, promotion, and performance decisions.
• Travel 20% and work onsite in Colorado as required.

Skills

Attention to detail

Safety compliance

Time management

Communication

Problem solving

Budgeting

Vendor oversight

Stakeholder management

Education

Advanced degree

Job description

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

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

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.