Senior Technologist - Hematology

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COVANCE is a leading global drug development services company and we provide support to the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industries.

You can make a difference by helping to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing medicines to people around the world. Our commitment to this mission has resulted in Covance’s impressive history of company stability and growth. We’ve achieved these results by fostering a work environment that encourages, develops and leverages our team’s capabilities.

This is your chance to become part of a team that helps to bring miracle of medicine to market sooner.

For our laboratory inGeneva, we are looking for a

 Senior Technologist - Hematology

The main responsibilities of this position are: 

• Provides informal leadership to department staff through mentoring and coaching.
• Oversee training activities within the department to ensure accuracy, quality, and consistency. Ensure area personnel are appropriately trained to support on-going routine production. Ensure training is completed as scheduled, and is properly documented prior to the individual testing and reporting patient results.
• Ensure competency is completed, as scheduled, by periodic review of competency documentation.
• Oversee the timely and accurate development of training materials and checklists for the department/sites.
• Provide on-going guidance, and support to department staff for training needs.
• May provide feedback to management on staff performance evaluations.
• Act as a consultant to the lab management, internal customers, and clients in all technical/scientific facets relating to departmental activity.
• Manage inquiries/requests for supporting documentation regarding data, test methodologies, new test codes, worksheets, and other internal customer/client needs.
• Attend customer team meetings, and participate in client conference calls where needed.
• Serve as site resource to provide guidance/direction to global sites for implementation of new processes/changes, and facilitate resolution of global issues.
• Drive timely implementation of new assay validations, instruments, and equipment according to SOPs.
• Serves as a subject matter expert (SME) for new initiatives, Six Sigma projects, and other process improvement projects.
• Effectively utilizes performance measures/metrics to identify potential opportunities to drive improvements in quality, cost, cycle time, and service.
• Performs research to support requests for new instruments/equipment needed to implement new assays, improve productivity, and reduce costs. Works with potential vendors, and provides necessary information to internal customers for implementation.
• Oversee delegation of workflow. Ensures the efficient operation of workstations and areas of responsibility to ensure timely resulting of quality data.
• With management, may lead cross-site harmonization efforts.
• Provide support to management for relationships with vendors to ensure company resource needs are met and issues are addressed.

 Education/Qualifications:

• • Medical Technologist (CFC holder)
  OR
  • Pharmaceutical Biology Technologist (CFC holder)
  OR
  • Medical Technologist (Swiss State School of Medical Technologist Degree holder)
  OR
  • Medical Technologist (BTS, DUT, IUT Degree holder)
  OR
  • Foreign Medical Technologist Degree holder with equivalency statement from Swiss Red Cross
• Strong knowledge in ADVIA
• Capability to identify pathological cells and to put a hematological diagnosis.
• Slides reading experience
• Knowledge of quality assurance processes
• Fluent in French and English