LIMS Implementation Support Analyst; Temporary Position

Position: LIMS Implementation Support Analyst (Temporary Position)
Position Summary:

Provides temporary analytical and operational support during implementation of a new Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). The position converts laboratory workflow and system data into actionable reports, monitors performance and exceptions, and supports LIMS implementation while the Laboratory Services Assistant Manager and Lead Chemist focus on configuration, validation, and training.

Essential Duties:

• Analyze LIMS and operational datasets for trends in workload, turnaround time, holding-time risk, backlogs, reporting deadlines, data corrections, reanalysis, resampling, and corrective actions.
• Develop operational reports, KPI dashboards, workload forecasts, and concise management summaries.
• Monitor LIMS exception reports, work queues, and overdue activities and provide prioritized status summaries to authorized staff.
• Perform data-quality checks on aggregated, extracted, or migrated datasets; reconcile totals, investigate anomalies, and document findings.
• Support LIMS data extraction, mapping, and cleanup.
• Evaluate laboratory workflows and document business requirements for reports, dashboards, labels, interfaces, and process improvements.
• Identify recurring workflow problems and data-error patterns and recommend corrective or preventive improvements for management review.
• Provide workload analyses and status reporting to support scheduling, resource allocation, and continuity of laboratory operations.
• Coordinate with laboratory staff, quality-assurance personnel, information technology staff, consultants, and the LIMS vendor to resolve data and workflow issues.
• Prepare audit-ready summaries, issue logs, action-item trackers, and implementation status reports, and promptly escalated significant concerns.

Minimum Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree in data analytics, information systems, statistics, chemistry, biology, environmental science, laboratory science, or a related field.
• Two years of experience in data analysis, laboratory data management, LIMS support, quality assurance, environmental laboratory operations, or project coordination is preferred.