Laboratory Scientist Supervisor - Office of Laboratory Services - Kanawha Co.

Nature of Work

Special Hiring Rates:$58,597.76

This position serves as the Chemical Terrorism (CT) Threat Preparedness Coordinator and CT Section Supervisor. Responsibilities include maintaining and supervising daily laboratory and administrative operations, maintaining quality assurance per state and federal regulations, coordinating supply and instrument needs, and overseeing the CT objectives of the Public Health Emergency Preparedness grant with CDC. This position also reviews statistical control and test data to ensure accuracy, provides technical expertise to staff, and serves as liaison to internal and external partners regarding CT specimen collection, testing, and reporting. Also performs bench work.

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Minimum Qualifications

Training: Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university in a biological, microbiological, chemical, or environmental science, medical technology, molecular biology, forensic sciences, or related field.

AND

Experience:Five (5) years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid laboratory experience that is clinical or environmental in nature that produces a test result.

OR

Substitution: Graduate course work in one of the areas as described above from a regionally accredited college or university may substitute at the rate of one (1) year of experience for every fifteen (15) semester hours of education.

Special Requirement:For positions which involve processing and analysis of human specimens and/or the generation or interpretation of laboratory results that may be used in the diagnosis or treatment of a disease or condition in humans, the incumbent must have or be eligible for licensure as a WV Clinical Laboratory Practitioner as required by 64 C.S.R.57.

Other Information

Special Hiring Rates:

• $58,597.76 - Department of Health and Human Resources, Bureau for Public Health, Office of Laboratory Services (SPB 3073)