Manager Laboratory Services
Park Rapids, MNJob$37.4–55.63/hrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Manager, Laboratory Services oversees the clinical laboratory’s daily operations and strategic development, ensuring accurate, timely, high-quality diagnostic testing. The role manages and mentors staff, monitors test quality, ensures regulatory compliance, and collaborates with pathologists and clinical teams to optimize workflows and integrate new technologies. It also oversees laboratory administration, quality improvement, equipment, maintenance, and procurement.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As a Manager, Laboratory Services, you will oversee daily operations and strategic development of the clinical laboratory, ensuring accurate, timely, and high-quality diagnostic testing.
Every day you will manage and mentor staff, monitor test quality, ensure regulatory compliance, and collaborate with pathologists and clinical teams to optimize workflows and integrate new technologies.
To be successful, you will demonstrate strong leadership, expert technical knowledge, and strategic management skills, driving continuous quality improvement and fostering a collaborative team for essential diagnostic support.
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Responsible for the overall administration of all laboratory operations. Monitors employee and departmental performance to ensure adherence to policies and procedures, timelines and regulatory requirements
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Remains knowledgeable on new technologies, methods and approaches within the laboratory community
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Stays informed on and quickly ensures compliance with changes to regulatory and state requirements.
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Ensures ongoing compliance with federal and state regulations.
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Responsible for development, implementation and compliance with policy and procedures. Develops monitoring systems to improve quality; initiates corrective action plans, and monitors results. Evaluates existing systems and processes and develops corrective action plans for service/quality trends identified Ensures prompt and effective resolution of quality or service concerns.
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Responsible for equipment oversight, maintenance, and procurement in accordance with division, system and regulatory standards.
Job Requirements
Requirements
Education: Bachelor of Science in biological or chemical sciences (as defined by CLIA).
Certification: At least one of the following is required upon hire:
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Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS/MT) – ASCP, AMT, or AAB
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International Medical Laboratory Scientist (IMLS)
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Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) or Technologist (CLT)
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Technologist in Molecular Biology, Microbiology, or Hematology
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Histotechnologist
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Specialist in Hematology or Microbiology
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Blood Banking (SBB) or Chemistry (SC) – ASCP
Preferred
- Master of Science and 2-3 years leadership experience as a manager
Where You'll Work
CHI St. Joseph’s Health of Park Rapids, part of CommonSpirit Health, is an award-winning, 25-bed critical access hospital located in the heart of lake country. Fully accredited by The Joint Commission, we offer a full range of services including 24/7/365 Emergency Department and Level IV Trauma Center, hospitalist program, testing, surgery, orthopedics, rehabilitation, and more so that you can experience better health.
Pay Range
$37.40 - $55.63 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 440 open Clinical Laboratory jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$37.4–55.63/hr
- US median$28–40/hr213 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $46.52/hr, is 33% above the US median midpoint ($35/hr) — in the top quarter of Clinical Laboratory hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 11 open Clinical Laboratory jobs in Minnesota and 440 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- AdventHealth25 open
- HCA Healthcare25 open
- Labcorp20 open
- Experience
- Clinical Laboratory postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 4 years (195 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 141 of the 440 open Clinical Laboratory jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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