Histology Supervisor
Tempus AI
Summary
Please note: This role is for a Saturday shift.
Job description
What you'll do
- Operational management of the path lab, including staff scheduling, prioritizing workflows, quality and compliance oversight and managing needs of a growing lab.
- Hiring, training, annual reviews, recognition, coaching, and corrective action for the histology team.
- New and existing histotechs training and proficiency testing.
- Audit LIMS reports daily to ensure all samples are processed in appropriate time frame and with high degree of accuracy.
- Equipment operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and appropriate documentation of activities.
- Identify and document occurrences that deviate from defined procedures.
- Investigate and resolve all incident reports.
- Ensure inventory is appropriately stocked and organized.
- Maintain clinical skills and competencies to assist histotechnologists as needed.
- Optimize and Validate all new antibodies for the immunohistochemistry staining platforms.
Qualifications
Must have:
- A valid certification in the field of Histotechnology, and at least 5 years experience in the field including: cutting (fresh and fixed samples), staining (H&E and IHC), processing, embedding, and immunohistochemistry validation.
- Completed a college degree with at least 60 total semester hours 12 coming from biology and chemistry.
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to delegate tasks to others
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work with others to plan and carry out daily tasks
- Self-driven and works well in an interdisciplinary team with minimal direction
- Strong desire to build products that will save lives and change the course of cancer
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Strong problem solving skills including the ability to focus on a problem, using technical knowledge and company policies to arrive at a timely solution
- Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical individuals
- Ability to handle continual change and potentially stressful situations
Highly Desirable
- Experience with validating immunohistochemistry protocols
- Experience supervising others
- Work in a CLIA/CAP high-complexity laboratory
- Experience writing, revising, and evaluating standard operating procedures
- Knowledge of troubleshooting all laboratory equipment
- Knowledge of LIMS platforms and various computer systems
Requirements
- A valid certification in the field of Histotechnology
- At least 5 years experience in histotechnology including cutting (fresh and fixed samples), staining (H&E and IHC), processing, embedding, and immunohistochemistry validation
- Completed a college degree with at least 60 total semester hours 12 coming from biology and chemistry
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to delegate tasks to others
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work with others to plan and carry out daily tasks
- Self-driven and works well in an interdisciplinary team with minimal direction
- Strong desire to build products that will save lives and change the course of cancer
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Strong problem solving skills including the ability to focus on a problem, using technical knowledge and company policies to arrive at a timely solution
- Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical individuals
- Ability to handle continual change and potentially stressful situations
Benefits
- Incentive compensation
- Restricted stock units
- Medical benefits
Company overview
Tempus AI, Inc. (NASDAQ: TEM) is a pioneering healthcare technology company founded in 2015 by Eric Lefkofsky in Chicago, Illinois. The company was established after Lefkofsky's wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, driving his mission to revolutionize cancer care through technology and artificial intelligence. Tempus specializes in applying AI to advance precision medicine by collecting and analyzing vast amounts of molecular, clinical, and genomic data. The company operates across multiple therapeutic areas including oncology, cardiology, radiology, neurology, psychiatry, and dermatology. Tempus provides comprehensive diagnostic services including next-generation sequencing (NGS), PCR profiling, and molecular pathology testing. Its AI-powered platform enables physicians to make real-time, data-driven decisions for personalized patient care and targeted therapies. The company went public in June 2024 and has expanded globally with operations in multiple countries. Tempus continues to innovate at the intersection of healthcare and artificial intelligence, aiming to ensure patients receive the right treatments at the right time for improved health outcomes.