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Position Summary
The Laboratory Supervisor position is responsible for supervising, training and coordinating employees in the Laboratory department. The Laboratory Supervisor will foster a positive work environment, modeling professional behavior and driving performance and accountability. Through a balanced approach of safety, quality, delivery, and cost, this role plans and assigns work, implements laboratory procedures, enforces company policies, and recommends department improvements.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
SAFETY
- Maintain safe and healthy work environment
- Investigate laboratory near misses and accidents, report findings and recommend corrective actions
QUALITY
- Understand department standard operating procedures, update procedures due to any changes, and maintain personnel training records
- Document non-conformances and collaborate with the Quality team on preventative measures
DELIVERY
- Ensures that appropriate staffing is assigned to meet daily operational needs
- Set daily priorities as needed, adapting staff performance to changing needs of the customers and/or laboratory operations as applicable
INVENTORY
- Monitor and maintain inventory for laboratory operation
PRODUCTIVITY
- Organize workflow and ensure that employees understand their responsibilities
- Develop test process rates, set performance goals and measure productivity results
- Work with the Quality team to maintain preventative maintenance schedules
CONTINOUS IMPROVEMENT
- Manage department key performance indicators, including visual controls, communicate status to management, understand problem root cause and execute countermeasures.
- Recommend improvements to process
- Expand professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and reviewing professional publications
EMPLOYEE SUPERVISION
- Maintains staffing levels by recruiting, hiring, orienting and training
- Provide technical support and act as a resource for departmental staff
- Track employee performance, write employee appraisals and recommend advancement based on merit
- Interpret and communicate company policies or management direction to employees
- Ensure employee adherence to company policies and laboratory procedures. Undertake counseling, disciplinary or termination based on situation
- Address questions, issues and concerns to cultivate effective employee relations
- Maintain timekeeping, track absenteeism and keep personnel records
- Other applicable tasks assigned by the Operations Manager
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Education Degree
Bachelor’s Degree
Required Experience
- Bachelors Degree in biology, microbiology, chemistry, or relevant discipline
- Minimum 4 years of experience in a laboratory environment
- Considerable knowledge of the basic principles and the laboratory applications of biology, microbiology, and/or chemistry
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
- Ability to solve practical problems through analytical and decision making skills
- Ability to prioritize assignments through time management and organization skills
- High sense of urgency focused on task accomplishment
- High proficiency in MS Office and computer skills
- Must be able to lift 25+ lbs.
Pay range for this opportunity is $64,050 – $84,063. This position is eligible for [BONUS PARTICIPATION] OR a [INSERT COMMISSION RATE RANGE, IF APPLICABLE] commission.
Minimum pay rates offered will comply with county/city minimums, if higher than range listed. Pay rates are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to local labor market costs, years of relevant experience, education, professional certifications, foreign language fluency, etc.
Employees (and their families) may enroll in our company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, health savings account, voluntary benefits, supplemental life/AD&D plans and the company’s 401k plan. Employees are covered by an employee assistance program (also available to household members) and long-term disability. Full-Time Employees are also eligible for short-term disability. Full-time Employees will also receive Paid Time Off (PTO) based on years of service and paid Holidays. Part-time employees working 20 or more hours receive a pro-ration of the full-time PTO allocation and paid Holidays based on their standard hourly work week. Full-Time employees are eligible for four weeks of paid parental leave. Part-time employees also receive paid parental leave, pro-rated based on their standard hourly work week.
STERIS is a leading provider of products and services that meet the needs of growth areas within Healthcare: procedures, devices, vaccines and biologics. We exist to fulfill our MISSION TO HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD. STERIS is a $3B, publicly traded (NYSE: STE) company with approximately 16,000 associates and Customers in more than 100 countries.
If you need assistance completing the application process, please call 1 (440) 392.7047. This contact information is for accommodation inquiries only and cannot be used to check application status.
STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.
The full affirmative action program, absent the data metrics required by § 60-741.44(k), shall be available to all employees and applicants for employment for inspection upon request. The program may be obtained at your location’s HR Office during normal business hours.
Req ID: 36929
Job Category: Manufacturing Operations