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Posted: 19-Sep-25
Location: Danville, Pennsylvania
Type: Full Time
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Internal Number: R-70641
Job Summary
Join our team at Geisinger Medical Laboratories. You can find your passion for caring and innovation as a team member in our state-of-the-art laboratories. Our mission is to provide exceptional patient care through innovative, efficient, and high-quality laboratory services.Job Duties
Provides day-to-day technical supervision of testing personnel ensuring the proper performance of all laboratory procedures and report of test results. Promotes standardization through collaboration and coordination within a specialty.
- Performs technical duties and provides technical knowledge and support to staff and clients within a department of responsibility.
- Analyzes technical problems and resolves in accordance with established laboratory policies.
- Reviews test results, quality control records, proficiency testing results and preventative maintenance records.
- Ensures that remedial actions are taken whenever test systems and Quality Assurance deviate from established performance specifications.
- Collaborates the planning of capital purchases and leases with the appropriate section Doctoral Director and Operations Director.
- Participates with the Director and other system colleagues in the development of new testing, validation and evaluation of new equipment, reagents, instrumentation and technologies.
- Maintains a working knowledge of applicable regulatory standards and ensures that compliance of standards is maintained.
- Participates in the analysis of cost for materials and negotiation of contracts to obtain favorable prices.
- Responsible for section purchasing, receiving, and inventory management to reduce costs.
- Accepts responsibility for effective cost accounting and cost management.
- Maintains adequate supply inventory.
- Participates in and coordinates the development of policy and procedure manuals with doctoral director and system colleagues.
- Assures timely and regular review of procedure manuals.
- Provides orientation to all new employees and identifies training needs and ensures that employees receive appropriate in-service training and education for their job responsibilities.
- Continually evaluates monitors and documents the performance of competency of each employee.
- Participates in annual performance appraisals.
- Collaborates with their specialty specific colleagues at other lab locations to assure standardization system-wide.
- Member of the Best Practice Committee for their area of responsibility.
- Encourages and engages in a service-oriented behavior designed to support and meet the needs of our various clients.
- Provides timely consultations and takes prompt action to correct problems and issues.
- Participates in educational and training activities to acquire new skills and maintain current proficiency.
Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. Additional competencies and skills outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position.
Position Details
$12,500 SIGN ON BONUS FOR QUALIFIED APPLICANTS*
Join our Automated Chemistry team at Geisinger Medical Center! We are a CAP-accredited laboratory looking for an Analytical Specialist with experience in chemistry to be part of our clinical team.
Our ideal candidate will have experience in automated chemistry including maintenance, troubleshooting and an advanced understanding of quality control. Experience with Roche Cobas analyzers and Unity a plus.
As an Analytical Specialist you will provide day to day technical supervision of the department ensuring proper performance of all laboratory procedures and reporting of test results. With state-of-the-art analyzers and a broad test menu, you will share the regulatory responsibilities of this robust testing area with a partner.
Tuition reimbursement is available for all full-time employees for job-related undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs.
Minimum 5 years of experience as a medical laboratory scientist required.
Strong chemistry background required. Must have relevant bachelor's degree (BSMT or BSMLS preferred; ASCP required if not a holder of BSMT or BSMLS degree).
- Full time
- GMC
- 7a-3:30p
- May travel to other system locations, 1-2 per year
- May attend national conferences, 1x per year
- Experience Chem Roche analyzers, and advanced QC
- Every 6th weekend, 1 holiday per year
Geisinger cares about not only its patients and members but also about you and your family. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package to ensure that you and your loved ones can maintain good health, achieve financial stability, and excel both personally and professionally. We believe in creating a diverse and inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves. To learn more: https://jobs.geisinger.org/diversity
Benefits of working at Geisinger:
- Full benefits (health, dental and vision) starting on day one
- Three medical plan choices, including an expanded network for out-of-area employees and dependents
- Pre-tax savings plans with healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA) and a health savings account (HSA)
- Company-paid life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) plan that includes automatic Geisinger contributions
- Generous paid time off (PTO) plan that allows you to accrue time quickly
- Up to $5,000 in tuition reimbursement per calendar year
- MyHealth Rewards wellness program to improve your health while earning a financial incentive
- Family-friendly support including adoption and fertility assistance, parental leave pay, military leave pay and a free Care.com membership with discounted backup care for your loved ones
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Referrals for childcare, eldercare, & pet care. Access free legal guidance, mental health visits, work-life support, digital self-help tools and more.
- Voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, identity theft protection, universal life and pet and legal insurance
Education
Bachelor's Degree- (Required), Bachelor's Degree-Medical Technology (Preferred)Experience
Minimum of 5 years-Laboratory (Required)Certification(s) and License(s)
OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation. SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.
We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.