Senior Analytical Operations Manager - Hanford Lab

Planned Systems International, Inc.; Richland (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401(k) with employer match

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Advanced Technologies and Laboratories (ATL), a Planned Systems International (PSI) company, seeks an Analytical Operations Manager to lead the Hanford site laboratory functions, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive quality and safety across inorganic, organic, radiochemical, and materials analyses.

The role oversees production scheduling, personnel, instrument performance, and data management, delivering defensible results while coordinating with customers and facility operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in chemistry, radiochemistry, chemical engineering, nuclear chemistry, materials science, or a related scientific discipline.
• Master's degree or doctorate in a related technical discipline preferred.
• 12+ years of experience in analytical laboratory operations, including regulated analytical services.
• 5+ years of managerial responsibility for laboratory operations, analytical production, or multidisciplinary scientific teams.
• Experience supervising complex analytical workflows, laboratory quality programs, and scientific or technical personnel.

Responsibilities

• Direct daily and long-range analytical operations supporting radioactive tank waste characterization, environmental sampling, and associated laboratory missions.
• Oversee inorganic, organic, radiochemical, and materials science analytical activities.
• Manage sample receipt, preparation, analysis, technical review, and reporting processes.
• Establish analytical production priorities and ensure timely completion of customer deliverables.
• Coordinate sample throughput, technical resources, equipment availability, and analytical scheduling.
• Manage laboratory capacity, workload balancing, personnel assignments, and emerging analytical requirements.
• Ensure analytical methods and results meet applicable laboratory quality assurance and customer requirements.
• Oversee method qualification, validation, calibration, quality control, and technical data review.
• Establish controls to maintain analytical precision, accuracy, traceability, and defensibility.
• Support laboratory assessments, technical audits, performance evaluations, and corrective actions.
• Maintain effective laboratory data management and sample traceability processes.
• Identify analytical trends, recurring deficiencies, and opportunities to improve method reliability.
• Ensure analytical operations comply with chemical hygiene, radiological protection, contamination control, and hazardous materials requirements.
• Coordinate safe analytical operations involving radioactive and hazardous materials, including work in hot cells, gloveboxes, and hoods.
• Promote conservative decision-making, procedural compliance, and employee reporting of abnormal conditions.
• Ensure appropriate employee qualifications, technical training, and authorization to perform assigned analytical activities.
• Coordinate with nuclear safety, industrial hygiene, radiation protection, and facility operations personnel.
• Develop and monitor operational performance indicators covering throughput, turnaround time, backlog, quality, equipment availability, and resource utilization.
• Implement production improvements that increase throughput without compromising accuracy or safety.
• Lead process improvement, automation, and instrument upgrades.

Skills

Leadership

Regulatory knowledge

Quality assurance

Project management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in chemistry or related field

Master's degree or doctorate preferred

Tools

Laboratory Information Systems

Job description

Advanced Technologies and Laboratories (ATL), a Planned Systems International (PSI) company, seeks an Analytical Operations Manager to lead the Hanford site laboratory functions, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive quality and safety across inorganic, organic, radiochemical, and materials analyses.

The role oversees production scheduling, personnel, instrument performance, and data management, delivering defensible results while coordinating with customers and facility operations.