Collaborative Sequencing Center Supervisor
City of Hope
Phoenix, AZ
Job posting number: #7294113 (Ref:2867186)
Posted: December 12, 2024
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
TGen, the Translational Genomics Research Institute, is part of City of Hope. We are an Arizona-based, nonprofit medical research institute dedicated to conducting groundbreaking research with life-changing results.
The Collaborative Sequencing Center Supervisor is responsible for day-to-day management of the center. This includes interactions with customers, building project budgets, overseeing laboratory staff, and participating in daily operations from sample receipt through sequencing. The manager is expected to contribute to research and development tasks to ensure workflows are in place to process samples in a high-throughput manner.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Daily oversight and management of the Collaborative Sequencing Center
- Daily interaction with customers
- Helping to design experiments based on supported assays
- Developing project specific budgets
- Providing regular project status updates
- Providing final project summaries and ensuring released data meets established quality control metrics along with project specific targets
- Daily oversight of laboratory staff
- Prioritizing projects and timelines for the staff
- Prioritizing sequencing runs
- Training of staff members
- Ensuring daily production is meeting established quality control metrics and identifying underlying issues when issues arise
- Placing orders and ensure stock of essential reagents
- Regular communication with vendors
- Identify new products
- Manage issues identified with products:
- Poor performing lots
- Failed sequencing runs
- Ensure all instrument maintenance and service is completed on schedule
- Development of protocols
- Design experiments to test new or modified workflows
- All production protocols are expected to be robustly tested and validated before implementation. The supervisor is expected to oversee any updates and ensure established methods are followed and any deviations are properly recorded.
- Experience in robotic automation of laboratory processes.
Additional duties as assigned by the Director of the Collaborative Sequencing Center.
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.
