Sample Management Supervisor - Multiple Shifts Available

Location/Division Specific Information

Our PPD Laboratory Services team has a direct impact on improving patient health through the expertise of scientists industry thoughtleaders and therapeutic experts. As the world leader in serving science our laboratory professionals bring their commitment to accuracy and quality to deliver groundbreaking innovations.

Location: Highland Heights KY

Discover Impactful Work:

Oversees the quality and productivity of daily operations. Interacts with internal departments and finds opportunities for process and efficiency improvements. Trains and schedules operations personnel. Prepares process documents and acts as a backup to management when needed. Performs and/or delegates all activities vital to ensure sample management deliverables are met.

A day in the Life:

• Creates work schedules and assignments ensures policies and procedures are accurate trains staff and assesses competence participates in staff hiring corrective action evaluation and career progression.

• Responsible for sample accessioning routing storage shipment deidentification relabeling discard destruction and aliquoting.

• Reviews and recommends process improvement and efficiency gains. Recommends IT enhancements. Authors reviews and implements procedural documents. Defines and monitors performance metrics for quality and productivity.

• Ensures that contracted maintenance and qualification of environmentally controlled units (ECU) or equipment used to prepare or store specimens is performed. Monitors ECU trending reports to prevent equipment failure ensures proper call response process and teams are in place to respond to ECU failures afterhours.

• Investigates and resolves problems with samples or shipments and in Process Deviation Reports/CAPA. Participates in audits and general capabilities department tours. Responds to environmental unit alarms and participate in oncall responsibilities.

Keys to Success:

Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification

• Previous experience that provides the knowledge skills and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 0 to 5 years).

• 1 year of leadership responsibility

In some cases an equivalency consisting of a combination of appropriate education training and/or directly related experience will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge Skills Abilities

• Good organizational skills with the ability to adapt and adjust to changing priorities and to handle multiple assignments with challenging/conflicting deadlines

• Strong written and oral communication skills as well as presentation skills

• Competent with computers and enterprise applications

• Critical thinking skills to support quality decision making

• Proven compliance with procedures and policies

• Proven leadership abilities

• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment

Work Environment

ThermoFisher Scientific values the health and wellbeing of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive. Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:

• Able to communicate receive and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.

• Able to work upright and stationary and/or standing for typical working hours.

• Able to lift and move objects of 15 to 40 pounds

• Able to work in nontraditional work environments.

• Able to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency.

• May have exposure to potentially hazardous elements including infectious agents typically found in healthcare or laboratory environments.

• Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities.

• Exposure to fluctuating and/or extreme temperatures on rare occasions

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100000 colleagues we share a common set of values Integrity Intensity Innovation and Involvement working together to accelerate research solve complex scientific challenges drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD part ofThermoFisher Scientific where diverse experiences backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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