Supervisor, Cologuard Laboratory - 2nd Shift

Abbott (abbottcareers2 board); Madison (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Cologuard Supervisor, Clinical Laboratory - Off-Shift in Madison, WI. This role oversees night/weekend laboratory operations, ensuring quality and regulatory compliance per CLIA, CAP, OSHA.

You’ll supervise staff, coordinate training, and provide on‑site consultation to maintain test accuracy and turnaround times. The position requires strong leadership, budget management, and proficiency with laboratory quality systems.

Qualifications

• Experience supervising a clinical laboratory team.
• Strong knowledge of CLIA, CAP, OSHA requirements.
• Ability to oversee quality systems and performance improvement.

Responsibilities

• Identify regulatory requirements to ensure compliance with laws and regulations.
• Staffing, recruitment, training, and competency evaluation.
• Provide on‑site supervision and consultation to laboratory personnel.
• Evaluate equipment and supply needs for the lab.
• Manage lab expenses within budget and ensure proper ordering of supplies.

Skills

Laboratory supervision

Regulatory compliance

Quality management

Staff development

Budget management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Medical Laboratory Science

MLS/CLS certification

Tools

LIS

QA/QC software

Job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Position Overview

This role will be performed during nights and/or weekend hours. The Cologuard Supervisor, Clinical Laboratory - Off-Shift directs the day-to-day laboratory operations, under the direction of the Director of Laboratory Operations (or designee); including, but not limited to, the general supervision and development of laboratory staff, assuring quality standards are met, providing technical expertise to the laboratory, and serving as the liaison to various internal and external entities, as needed. The General Supervisor, Clinical Laboratory oversees the quality management program in the laboratory and ensures that the laboratory and laboratory staff follow all laws and regulations that are required by CLIA, CAP, OSHA, and any other applicable legislative organizations. This role meets the CAP requirements for General Supervisor.

Shift: Tues - Fri, 2p -1130p

Essential Duties

• Identify and understand regulatory requirements to ensure the laboratory is compliant with all applicable laws and regulations pertinent to the management of the laboratory, including applicable LIA, CAP and other requirements and regulations.
• In conjunction with support staff, maintain a process for staffing, recruiting, training, evaluation of competency, and ongoing educational development.
• Provide supervision to the laboratory and is accessible to the laboratory personnel to provide on‑site consultation.
• Evaluate equipment and supply needs of the laboratory.
• Work with laboratory leadership to ensure expenses are within the departmental budget.
• Assure proper ordering of supplies and equipment.
• Monitor supply usage and variances.
• Review test volumes with the laboratory leadership to ensure appropriate staffing to maintain established turn‑around‑times.
• Verify the test procedures performed, and along with laboratory leadership establish the laboratory's test performance characteristics; including precision and accuracy of each test and test system.
• Ensure that the Quality Management program is maintained by following parameters for acceptable performance for the pre‑analytical, analytical, and post‑analytical testing processes.
• Resolve all technical problems, with the aid of the technical staff, and ensure that remedial action is taken whenever a test deviates from the laboratory's performance standards.
• Ensure that all patient results are not reported until corrective actions have been taken and the systems are functioning properly.
• Identify training needs and ensure all training is performed as required.
• Evaluate competency of all laboratory personnel.
• Possess effective management abilities to supervise department staff and maintain budgets.
• Verify the test procedures performed.
• This is accomplished by: Reviewing proficiency testing.
• Reviewing corrected reports and incident reports.
• Reviewing Quality Control at least monthly.
• Ensure that the Quality Control program is maintained by following parameters for acceptable limits and levels are maintained throughout the entire testing process from initial receipt of specimen to reporting results.
• Sign technical training records.
• Design training checklists.
• Evaluate competency of all testing personnel with the help of technical staff and ensure that the staff maintains their competency to perform test procedures and report test results promptly, accurately, and proficiently. The procedures for evaluation of the competency of the staff must include: Directly observing routine patient test performance, including patient preparation, if applicable, specimen handling, processing, and testing.
• Monitor the recording and reporting of results.
• Review intermediate test results or worksheets, quality control records, proficiency testing results, and preventive maintenance.
• Assess test performance through testing previously analyzed specimens (QA Split Samples, contrived specimens) or external proficiency testing samples.
• Assess problem solving skills.Evaluate and document the performance and competency of individuals six months after initial employment. Thereafter, evaluations must be done annually unless method or instrumentation changes; in which case, before reporting patient results, the individual's performance must be reevaluated.
• Consistent demonstration of exceptional leadership qualities, including but not limited to the ability to attract and retain the best team, foster a culture of high performance, lead with integrity, humility, accountability, and courage, and set a clear vision to energize teams towards the future.
• Effectively manage, support, and guide your