TITLE AND CLASSIFICATION: Supervisor, Study Services
REPORTING LOCATION: Rockville, MD
REPORTS TO: Director, Laboratory Operations
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: Support in vivo oncology studies in mice as a Supervisor of Study Services. Directly manage staff. Responsible for providing leadership to the Study Services Team and interfacing with cross company teams.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Hire and manage small teams of technicians, apprentices, and assistants within Study Services, including competency assessments and skill development plans.
- Coordinate with cross-functional groups, management, and Project Leadership
- Review draft and final protocols, extract relevant information and assign responsibilities to staff, including study initiation and cross company coordination.
- Evaluate, train, and mentor staff, including review of daily work task completion and monthly metrics.
- Lead weekly and daily meetings to ensure task completion in timely manner.
- Improve procedures and processes and investigate deviations and near-misses.
- Create, review, and edit Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and processes.
- May act as lead technician on studies.
- Perform in-life technical procedures, therapeutic agent administration, and care for all animals.
- Provide animal welfare assessments, including body weight and tumor volume measurement.
- Provide perioperative animal care, including analgesia and anesthesia administration.
- Record data using laboratory information management systems.
- Work weekends and holidays on a rotating basis.