Lighthouse Lab Services is the nation's premier laboratory consulting, management, and recruiting company. With decades of laboratory start-up and operational experience, we've cultivated a collaborative team of scientists, consultants, and industry experts.

Within our teams, Lighthouse enjoys a rewarding atmosphere built on teamwork, recognition, and growth. This atmosphere enables us to provide innovative solutions and extraordinary client service to fulfill our mission of making quality laboratory testing more accessible.

We are looking for a Laboratory Director / Toxicologist to join our team! If you're up for an incredibly rewarding challenge, we'd be honored to hear from you.

Snapshot / What You'll Do:

The Laboratory Director / Toxicologist focuses on implementing and maintaining effective operations validation activities in alignment with policy for our client’s laboratory testing sites. The incumbent evaluates method improvement potentials of existing methods, re-optimize compounds to work better, and develop new methods on the LCMS for exciting new projects.

This role works closely with several departments including Consulting, Product Development, Lab Management, and Quality teams to deliver status updates on project progress to ensure optimized performance at each of our laboratories. This role is requires you to be at our Charlotte, NC office 3-days of the week.

Essential Functions and Basic Duties:

• Develops and accelerates performance improvement plans.
• Evaluates method improvement potentials.
• Development and validation of LCMS methodologies.
• Evaluates and helps improve quality processes as they pertain to LCMS testing.
• Communicates and collaborates with internal team members and clients on project progress.

Qualifications:

The candidate will be expected to meet the qualifications provided by the relevant regulations (including those provided by CLIA, 42 C.F.R. § 493.1443) for directing and supervising a high complexity laboratory, including:

• Possess or obtain licenses issued by State in which the laboratories are located, if such licensing is required; and
• For PhDs: The qualification for a laboratory director of high-complexity testing is that the laboratory director must hold an earned doctoral degree in a chemical, physical, biological or clinical laboratory science from an accredited institution and be certified and continue to be certified by a board approved by HHS. The current approved boards are the following:
  • 1. ABB – American Board of Bioanalysis
  • 2. ABB public health microbiology certification
  • 3. ABCC – American Board of Clinical Chemistry
  • 4. ABCC 24-month Commission on Accreditation in Clinical Chemistry (COMACC)
  • 5. ABFT – American Board of Forensic Toxicology
  • 6. ABHI – American Board of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
  • 7. ABMG – American Board of Medical Genetics
  • 8. ABMLI – American Board of Medical Laboratory Immunology
  • 9. ABMM – American Board of Medical Microbiology
  • 10. NRCC – National Registry of Certified Chemists

Experience and Skill Requirements:

• 3+ years of method development in a clinical toxicology setting is required.
• Experience with Shimadzu and Agilent method development required, Sciex experience is
• preferred.
• Validation of methods in a clinical setting.
• Experience with clinical laboratory regulatory requirements.
• Experience preparing for and leading laboratory accreditation and licensing surveys and
  inspections.
• Working knowledge of clinical laboratory science, operational best practices, and instrument
  theory and operation.

Salary and Benefits:

• Salary ranges from $105,000-115,000 annually, with standard bonus plan
• Medical, Vision, and Dental Benefit offerings
• 15 days Paid Time Off (vacation and sick days)
• 9 Paid Holidays
• 401(k) retirement plan with up to 4% Company match
• Company-provided group life + AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance
• Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Partially Paid Medical Leave / Paid Parental Leave

It is the policy of Lighthouse Lab Services to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Lighthouse Lab Services is committed to working and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals of all abilities, including persons with disabilities. If at any time during the application process, you need an accommodation, please contact hrsupport@lighthouselabservices.com for assistance.

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