Job Code:	1606
Job Title:	Chief Technologist
Creation Date:	08/01/93
Revision Date:	04/03/07
FLSA Status:	Exempt

To provide the administrative and technical skills necessary to manage a major patient service laboratory division.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Assists the manager with the management of the human and financial resources of a major laboratory division.
• Develops, in conjunction with the Division Director(s), the administrative policies for the laboratory division.
• Coordinates personnel schedules, student rotations, and in-service education activities.
• Monitors and manages the personnel budget to include the use of overtime and part time FTEs.
• Monitors the M&O budget.
• Reviews clinical data for quality assurance.
• Adheres to internal controls established for department.

• Performs related duties as required.

Bachelor's degree and five years of related experience. Certification as a Medical Technologist, Cytotechnologist, Histocompatibility Technologist, or Histotechnologist by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP) or equivalent specialty certification, as appropriate. Qualification as a general supervisor under Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments if required to perform essential duties in the laboratory specialty.

Standard office equipment. 

Standard laboratory environment.

Specific job requirements or physical location of some positions allocated to this classification, may render this position security sensitive, and thereby subject to the provisions of Section 51.215, Texas Education Code.

ANY QUALIFICATIONS TO BE CONSIDERED AS EQUIVALENTS IN LIEU OF STATED MINIMUMS REQUIRE THE PRIOR APPROVAL OF THE CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER.