Laboratory Quality Control Specialist

• Hiring Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Department: Department of Health and Human Services

This position is located in the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY As a Laboratory Quality Control Specialist, you will:
Coordinate shipments of biological specimens, including special and hazardous items, ensuring proper packaging and compliance with local, state, and Federal laws, regulations, and CDC biological-shipping guidelines.

Conduct continuous laboratory quality reviews to determine compliance with quality-management systems, clinical laboratory practices, regulatory requirements, and national/international standards, including Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements.

Regularly and routinely inspect and review assigned laboratory work spaces to identify and correct unsafe conditions and ensure compliance with applicable federal and state safety and health regulations and established laboratory safety policies. Serve as the laboratory's primary liaison for audits, review committees, and third-party inquiries

Foreign

Education:

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.

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This position is with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services.

The posted pay range is $83265 – $108251/yr.

This position is eligible for telework.

This position requires a Other security clearance.

Applications close on .

This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.