Development Laboratory Manager Jobs in Conroe, TX

At MD Anderson Cancer Center, we are committed to advancing cancer care through excellence, innovation, and collaboration. As a Laboratory Supervisor in our FLOW Cytometry department, you will lead a team of highly skilled professionals, ensuring accurate and cutting-edge laboratory testing that directly impacts patient outcomes. This role offers the unique opportunity to combine your technical expertise with leadership, guiding employees, streamlining processes, and implementing new methodologies that elevate laboratory performance.
Why MD Anderson?
You will be part of an organization that values scientific excellence, teamwork, and the growth of its employees. In this role, you will have the chance to shape laboratory operations, mentor staff, and drive quality improvement initiatives that make a measurable difference every day. Your leadership will be critical in fostering a cohesive, productive, and supportive work environment.
What's in it for you?
MD Anderson offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial security, and work-life balance, including:

• Paid medical, dental, and vision insurance to keep you and your family healthy.
• Generous paid time off (PTO) to recharge and spend time with loved ones.
• Retirement plans to help you plan for the future.
• Professional development opportunities, including continuing education and management curriculum, to grow your leadership and technical skills.

If you are a technical leader passionate about advancing laboratory excellence while supporting and inspiring a team, MD Anderson offers an environment where your expertise and leadership will thrive-making a real difference in patient care and your professional growth.
**The hours are 2pm - 10:30pm. The ideal candidate will have FLOW Cytometry experience**
JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES
Technical Leadership
• Is a subject matter expert.
• Ensures all employees perform accurate Flow Cytometry testing of all specimen types.
• Supervises employees and assists while techs troubleshoot difficult specimens, and overseas in process improvement in wet lab areas.
• Leads troubleshooting of computer functions and ensures all employees are competent and able to perform computer functions.
• Coordinate and ensure the maintenance of policies and procedures for all clinical testing.
• Reviews and updates SOPs in a timely manner to ensure that current practices match the approved procedures.
• Leads the evaluation and validation of new methodologies, tests, and instrumentation.
• Assists with LIS and EMR applications implementation, testing and recommends modifications as needed.
• Perform clinical lab assays, tests, and procedures as necessary.
Productivity, Supervision, and Teambuilding
• Ensures all employees are trained and guides new employee development.
• Ensures productivity standards are met by team members as well as coaches and counsels to improve performance when needed.
• Discovers, develops and leads process improvements that positively impact productivity and laboratory function.
• Ensures all testing phases (including pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical) of laboratory testing is performed in alignment with laboratory policies and procedures.
• Provides a team environment that promotes cohesiveness, communication, respect, helpfulness, and desire for excellence.
• Demonstrates availability, approachability, and the desire to help, encourage and respond to others.
• Manages personnel activities such as performance evaluations, disciplinary actions, monitors the staff progress of Professional Development Model (PDM), staff scheduling, staff coaching and mentoring, among others, in compliance with the institutional, divisional, and departmental policies and procedures.
• Ensures supplies and equipment are ordered and maintained to meet laboratory testing needs.
Quality Oversight
• Ensures the staff compliance with all regulatory and accreditation requirements and safety standards.
• Performs or oversees competency assessment of all testing personnel in compliance with the regulatory requirements.
• Enforces policies and procedures.
• Participates in the strategic development of employees and of process improvements that positively impact the productivity, function and future direction of the laboratory.
• Oversees the new procedures, lab bulletin, test cost analysis, business plan, competency tests and training of other employees for the new tests, processes or instrumentation.
• Ensures adequate quality control, quality assurance and quality improvement methods are implemented and performed.
• Participates in quality surveillance program such as CAP Mock inspections every six months.
• Oversees the Proficiency testing program according to CAP regulations.
People Leadership
• Provides development opportunities and ongoing feedback to employees to include timely completion of administrative staff and classified employees each evaluation period.
• Provides clear direction and communication to employees within the unit.
• Manages operating expenses to budget.
• Completes required 16 hours of continuing education for people leadership skills per year.
• Complete Management Curriculum within required timeframe
Education
Required:
• Bachelor's Degree in a related science field or Molecular Genetic Technology OR
• Successful completion of a National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Science (NAACLS) accredited Clinical Laboratory Science/Molecular Genetic Technology accredited program
Preferred:
• Master's Degree in a related science field
• Doctorate in a related science field
Work Experience
Required:
• 8 years of clinical laboratory compliance and operations experience, including three years of lead or supervisory experience OR
• 6 years of clinical laboratory compliance and operations experience, including three years of lead or supervisory experience, with Master's degree OR
• 4 years of clinical laboratory compliance and operations experience, including three years of lead or supervisory experience, with Doctorate degree
Additional Considerations:
• Successful completion of the LEADing Self Accelerate and/or LEADing Self Discover programs may substitute for one year of required supervisory or management experience. Completion of both programs can be substituted for a maximum of two years of supervisory or management experience
• 2 years of clinical laboratory compliance and operations experience may be substituted for required certification
Licenses and Certifications
Required (upon hire):
• ASCP - American Society of Clinical Pathologist Technologist/Scientist/Specialist certification OR
• CHS - Certified Histocompatibility Specialist, American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ACHI) OR
• CHT - Certified Histocompatibility Technologist, American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ACHI) OR
• MDT - Molecular Diagnostics Tech, American Medical Technologists (AMT) OR
• MT - Medical Technologist, American Medical Technologists (AMT)
Other Requirements
• Must pass pre-employment skills test as required and administered by Human Resources
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, paid time off, retirement, tuition benefits, educational opportunities, and individual and team recognition.
This position may be responsible for maintaining the security and integrity of critical infrastructure, as defined in Section 113.001(2) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code and therefore may require routine reviews and screening. The ability to satisfy and maintain all requirements necessary to ensure the continued security and integrity of such infrastructure is a condition of hire and continued employment.
It is the policy of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to provide equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state, or local laws unless such distinction is required by law.http://www.mdanderson.org/about-us/legal-and-policy/legal-statements/eeo-affirmative-action.html