Tempus

Extractions Supervisor

Tempus$75K — $95K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Educational background: MD or PhD with 2+ years lab experience, or MS with 4+ years clinical experience (2 in specialty), or BS with 7+ years relevant experience
  • Strong communication skills for effective team interaction
  • Proficient in delegating tasks efficiently
  • Ability to excel in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
  • Proven teamwork skills for planning and executing scientific programs
  • Self-motivated with minimal supervision
  • Exceptional attention to detail

Responsibilities

  • Oversee daily operations of advanced molecular workflows ensuring rapid sequencing turnaround
  • Monitor laboratory processes and maintain quality control standards
  • Implement remedial actions for any deviations from performance specifications
  • Conduct quality reviews for sequencing workflow samples
  • Ensure compliance with CLIA, CAP, and NYSDOH regulations
  • Facilitate training and competency assessments for laboratory personnel
  • Mentor a team of clinical molecular and extraction technologists
  • Uphold safety protocols and maintain a safe laboratory environment
  • Utilize automation and robotics for workflow optimization

Benefits

  • Comprehensive training and development programs
  • Opportunities for mentorship and career growth
  • Engagement in cutting-edge molecular biology technologies
  • Collaborative and interdisciplinary team environment
  • Impactful work contributing to advancements in cancer diagnostics
Full Job Description

What You’ll Do:

  • Provide daily oversight of a cutting-edge molecular workflow to provide high-quality next-generation sequencing data with rapid turnaround times

  • Monitor laboratory processes to ensure that acceptable levels of analytic performance are maintained, to include review of quality control, instrument and equipment maintenance, and other quality assurance activities

  • Assure all remedial actions are taken whenever test systems deviate from the laboratory's established performance specifications

  • Perform quality review for samples within the sequencing workflow from extraction to sequencing.

  • Maintain CLIA/ CAP/ NYSDOH compliance

  • Schedule training and competency assessments for personnel

  • Mentor team of clinical molecular technologists and extraction technologists

  • Maintain safety within the laboratory and ensure all safety protocols are followed.

  • Utilize automation and robotics to standardize the discovery pipeline from sample acquisition to sequencing output

  • Schedule training and onboarding for new hires

Qualifications:

Must have:

  • One of the following educational requirements:

    • MD and 2+ years lab experience

    • PhD and 2+ years lab experience

    • M.S. (physical, chemical, or biological science) and 4+ years pertinent clinical lab experience (at least 2 of which are in the designated specialty)

    • BS in clinical laboratory science, chemical, physical or biological sciences and 7+ years of pertinent clinical lab experience

  • Excellent communication skills

  • Ability to delegate tasks to others

  • Thrives in a fast-paced environment

  • Ability to work with others to plan and carry out scientific programs

  • Self-driven and works well in an interdisciplinary team with minimal direction

  • Strong desire to build products that will save lives and change the course of cancer

  • Impeccable attention to detail

Highly Desirable:

  • Experience with extractions workflow

  • Experience supervising others

  • Work in a CLIA/CAP high-complexity laboratory

  • Experience with robotics and automated liquid handling systems

  • Knowledge of LIMS platforms and various computer systems

About Tempus

Tempus is a technology company that has built an operating system to battle cancer. The company enables physicians to deliver personalized cancer care for patients through its interactive analytical and machine learning platform. Tempus provides genomic sequencing services and analyzes molecular and therapeutic data to empower physicians to make real-time, data-driven decisions. The company also offers research services to enable discovery of new therapeutic targets and clinical services that support clinical trial design and monitoring. Tempus was founded in 2015 by Eric Lefkofsky and has raised over $8 billion in funding to date.
Learn more about Tempus
Size
1,001 employees
Industry
Founded
2015

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