Lab Supervisor, Histotechnology

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant® is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer.

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The Lab Supervisor, Histotechnology is responsible for the general supervision and daily operations of the Histology Laboratory. The Lab Supervisor, Histotechnology will often be the first point of contact for histology technicians and histotechnologists during laboratory processing and will provide guidance while troubleshooting technical and non-technical problems. The Lab Supervisor must also act as a liaison between the Histotechnologists, Manager of Tissue Production, Quality Manager, and Laboratory Director.

The Lab Supervisor will also be involved with scheduling, troubleshooting technical and nontechnical problems, coaching and mentoring the laboratory staff, building effective teams, managing projects and meeting project deliverables, and understanding and implementing laboratory goals. Given the wide variety of tasks involved in this position, the Lab Supervisor must demonstrate the ability to analyze complex issues and make sound decisions in a timely manner, commitment to helping and motivating employees, the ability to respond to difficult issues quickly, fairly, and ethically, outstanding organizational skills, the ability to respond to change with flexibility and to adapt quickly to evolving circumstances, excellent communication skills including utilizing various communication channels, proactively communicating team goals and priorities clearly, openly and objectively, and communicating changes, issues, and challenges in all directions of the organization.

The nature of the work requires excellent attention to detail, effective written and verbal communication skills, the ability to multitask and be flexible with tasks and schedules, and the ability to work independently in a team environment.

• Provide day-to-day supervision of laboratory personnel;
• Be responsible for the daily operations of the laboratory including but not limited to scheduling, independently troubleshooting and resolving technical and non-technical problems;
• Independently identify and troubleshoot problems that adversely affect pre-analytical processes;
• Perform administrative duties including but not limited to writing employee performance evaluations, writing and reviewing SOPs, protocols, QC forms, and equipment maintenance forms as assigned;
• Coach and mentor histotechnologists and/or histotechnicians including, but not limited to, providing guidance and constructive feedback and assisting with the development of the troubleshooting and judgment skills;
• Manage the testing and validation of new laboratory equipment and procedures;
• Participate in introduction of process improvements and validation;
• Participate in the inspection preparation activities as needed;
• Perform laboratory procedure according to the laboratory's standard operating procedures as needed;
• Perform, review and document laboratory quality control procedures, as needed;
• Document all corrective actions taken when there is a deviation from the standard processes as needed;
• Assist with the training of new laboratory personnel and training of new procedures with existing personnel;
• Participate in quality assurance activities;
• Effectively communicate technical information to technical and non-technical audiences;
• Perform competency assessment for laboratory personnel;
• Maintain stringent standards for quality, identifying any issues which might adversely impact the quality of down stream test results and/or employee safety, and communicating these to the appropriate management representatives as necessary for resolution;
• Lead a variety of other essential laboratory activities, including reagent qualification, inventory management, procedure writing, inspection preparation, assay validation and investigation.
• Perform and document reagent qualification per the approved…