What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Genomics Automation Specialist position at Children's Hospital Colorado?
Why Work at Children's....
Here, it’s different. Come join us.
Children's Hospital Colorado has defined and delivered pediatric healthcare excellence for more than 100 years.
Here, the nation’s brightest nurses, physicians, scientists, researchers, therapists, and care providers are creating the future of child health. With an optimist’s outlook, a trailblazing spirit, and a celebrated history, we’re making new strides every day.
We’ve been Magnet-designated four times by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and are consistently recognized among the best of the best pediatric hospitals with #1 rankings in Colorado and the region by U.S. News & World Report.
As a national leader in pediatric care, we serve children and families from all over the nation. Our System of Care includes four pediatric hospitals, 11 specialty care centers, 1,300 outreach clinics and more than 10,000 healthcare professionals representing the full spectrum of pediatric care specialties.
Here, we know it takes all of us, every role, to deliver the best possible care to each child and family we treat.
That’s why we build our teams toward a foundation of equity in access, advancement, and opportunity. We know teams of individuals with different identities and backgrounds can nurture creativity and innovation. We know we can see, treat, and heal children better when our team reflects the diversity of our patient population. We strive to attract and retain diverse talent because we know a truly inclusive and equitable workforce will help us one day realize our most basic calling: to heal every child who comes through our doors.
A career at Children's Colorado will challenge you, inspire you, and motivate you to make a difference in the life of a child. Here, it’s different.
Job Overview
The Senior Genomics Automation Specialist is an integral part of the Children's Hospital Colorado Precision Diagnostics Laboratory team. Advancing the laboratory operations efficiency by designing and creating new automation programs on current equipment to meet evolving needs for current and new protocols and scaling sample throughput. Supports and assists with designing, planning, testing, implementing, maintenance, problem solving, documenting, and developing software code, standards, principles, and practices.
Additional Information
Department: Precision Diagnostics PDX Lab
Hours per week: 40, eligible for benefits
Shift: Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm, work hours may vary based on the needs of the department. With the potential to support weekend and holiday staffing hours as needed.
POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE
No direct patient care.
Essential Functions
An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all the following essential functions. These examples do not include all the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.
SCOPE & LEVEL
Guidelines: Fully qualified, full performance or journey level. Guidelines are generally but not always clearly applicable, requiring the employee to exercise judgment in selecting the most pertinent guideline, interpret precedents, adapt standard practices to differing situations, and recommend alternative actions in situations without precedent.
Complexity: Duties assigned are generally complex and may be of substantial intricacy. Work assignment is performed within an established framework under general instructions but requires simultaneous coordination of assigned functions or projects in various stages of completion.
Decision Making: Exercises judgment and discretion, and is responsible for determining the time, place and sequence of the work performed.
Communications: Contacts with team members, clients or the public where explanatory or interpretive information is exchanged, defended, and gathered and discretion and judgment are required within the parameters of the job function.
Supervision Received : Performs work with minimal supervisory oversight. Under general supervision, the employee receives assignments and is expected to carry them through to completion with substantial independence. Work is reviewed for adherence to instructions, accuracy, completeness, and conformance to standard practice or precedent. Recurring work clearly covered by guidelines may or may not be reviewed.
Physical Requirements
Physical Requirements
Vision - Near: clear vision at 20 inches or less
Weight Lifted/Force Exerted: up to 10 pounds/4.5 kilos, up to 1/3 of time
Hearing: able to clearly hear details
Sit: 2/3 or more of time
Talk: able to communicate verbally
Mental/Emotional: able to work in close proximity to others and/or in a distracting environment
Mental/Emotional: able to cope with stress effectively
Mental/Emotional: able to prioritize effectively
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Mental/Emotional: able to tolerate ambiguity
Mental/Emotional: able to prioritize effectively
Mental/Emotional: may be subject to many interruptions
Office Work Environment: Regular/frequent exposure
Bloodborne Pathogen Category 2: Occasional exposure to blood/body fluid
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.
The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.
Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Salary Information
Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $90,900.58 to $136,350.88
Hourly Salary Range: $43.70 to $65.55
Benefits Information
Here, you matter. As a Children’s Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.
As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.
Children’s Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.
Here, it’s different. Come join us.
Children's Hospital Colorado has defined and delivered pediatric healthcare excellence for more than 100 years.
Here, the nation’s brightest nurses, physicians, scientists, researchers, therapists, and care providers are creating the future of child health. With an optimist’s outlook, a trailblazing spirit, and a celebrated history, we’re making new strides every day.
We’ve been Magnet-designated four times by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and are consistently recognized among the best of the best pediatric hospitals with #1 rankings in Colorado and the region by U.S. News & World Report.
As a national leader in pediatric care, we serve children and families from all over the nation. Our System of Care includes four pediatric hospitals, 11 specialty care centers, 1,300 outreach clinics and more than 10,000 healthcare professionals representing the full spectrum of pediatric care specialties.
Here, we know it takes all of us, every role, to deliver the best possible care to each child and family we treat.
That’s why we build our teams toward a foundation of equity in access, advancement, and opportunity. We know teams of individuals with different identities and backgrounds can nurture creativity and innovation. We know we can see, treat, and heal children better when our team reflects the diversity of our patient population. We strive to attract and retain diverse talent because we know a truly inclusive and equitable workforce will help us one day realize our most basic calling: to heal every child who comes through our doors.
A career at Children's Colorado will challenge you, inspire you, and motivate you to make a difference in the life of a child. Here, it’s different.
Job Overview
The Senior Genomics Automation Specialist is an integral part of the Children's Hospital Colorado Precision Diagnostics Laboratory team. Advancing the laboratory operations efficiency by designing and creating new automation programs on current equipment to meet evolving needs for current and new protocols and scaling sample throughput. Supports and assists with designing, planning, testing, implementing, maintenance, problem solving, documenting, and developing software code, standards, principles, and practices.
Additional Information
Department: Precision Diagnostics PDX Lab
Hours per week: 40, eligible for benefits
Shift: Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm, work hours may vary based on the needs of the department. With the potential to support weekend and holiday staffing hours as needed.
- This is a hybrid role
- EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Engineering or related field, technology from an accredited institution.
- EXPERIENCE: Eight (8) years working in a high complexity clinical laboratory, as a Medical Technologist, Application Scientist or Automation Engineer.
- Six (6) years of demonstrated experience with assay automation and/or next generation sequencing technologies highly preferred.
- EQUIVALENCY: EQUIVALENCY: Master’s Degree in Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Engineering or related field may substitute for two (2) years of the required experience.¿ P.H.D in Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Engineering or related field may substitute for four (4) years of the required experience.
POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE
No direct patient care.
Essential Functions
An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all the following essential functions. These examples do not include all the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.
- Proven experience in analyzing, designing, building, modifying, implementing, testing, and debugging new or automated assays, testing platforms, and systems/systems integration to increase scale and efficiencies in the laboratories, as applicable.
- Prepares timelines, project plans and flow charts for the development or enhancement of new and existing automated protocols across instrumentation and software systems. Candidate should have program management expertise in the life sciences field.
- Calibrate, maintain, and repair a variety of laboratory instrument workflows and integration dependencies, including liquid handling robotics, provide real-time support for automated equipment during live runs. Experience documenting appropriate repair and calibration specifications in a regulated environment.
- Trains end user on instrument use and automated protocols, collaborates with the innovation team on programming, process design, and end to end laboratory automation integration.
- Trains and assists with gathering, analyzing and documenting business and user requirements, functional requirements, and data specifications. Trains in designing, writing, and documenting technical specifications to design or redesign applications.
- Responsible for evaluating, planning, designing, developing, testing, implementing, and maintaining application development efforts and/or reports. Works with applications staff to translate and document user needs and system requirements into report specification and/or technical documents. Integrates data between multiple systems for reporting as necessary.
- Experience with performing liquid handling robotics tuning and configuring, developing backup and recovery processes during live runs, and coordinates system upgrades, service contracts, and preventative maintenance.
- Experience with writing stored procedures, packages, and/or functions. Ensure code is written and controlled in alignment with departmental specifications.
- Identify and investigate relevant automation platforms, industry advances, and equipment, to contribute to new systems designs and development and deployment into operational laboratory.
- Extensive experience in analytical automation technology and various vendor analytical platforms, liquid handling, and sample handling systems.
- Mentor and trains junior staff to support operational needs and enabling troubleshooting and self-resolution of automation problems as appropriate.
- Participates in Production Support on-call rotation as necessary.
SCOPE & LEVEL
Guidelines: Fully qualified, full performance or journey level. Guidelines are generally but not always clearly applicable, requiring the employee to exercise judgment in selecting the most pertinent guideline, interpret precedents, adapt standard practices to differing situations, and recommend alternative actions in situations without precedent.
Complexity: Duties assigned are generally complex and may be of substantial intricacy. Work assignment is performed within an established framework under general instructions but requires simultaneous coordination of assigned functions or projects in various stages of completion.
Decision Making: Exercises judgment and discretion, and is responsible for determining the time, place and sequence of the work performed.
Communications: Contacts with team members, clients or the public where explanatory or interpretive information is exchanged, defended, and gathered and discretion and judgment are required within the parameters of the job function.
Supervision Received : Performs work with minimal supervisory oversight. Under general supervision, the employee receives assignments and is expected to carry them through to completion with substantial independence. Work is reviewed for adherence to instructions, accuracy, completeness, and conformance to standard practice or precedent. Recurring work clearly covered by guidelines may or may not be reviewed.
Physical Requirements
Physical Requirements
Vision - Near: clear vision at 20 inches or less
Weight Lifted/Force Exerted: up to 10 pounds/4.5 kilos, up to 1/3 of time
Hearing: able to clearly hear details
Sit: 2/3 or more of time
Talk: able to communicate verbally
Mental/Emotional: able to work in close proximity to others and/or in a distracting environment
Mental/Emotional: able to cope with stress effectively
Mental/Emotional: able to prioritize effectively
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Mental/Emotional: able to tolerate ambiguity
Mental/Emotional: able to prioritize effectively
Mental/Emotional: may be subject to many interruptions
Office Work Environment: Regular/frequent exposure
Bloodborne Pathogen Category 2: Occasional exposure to blood/body fluid
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.
The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.
Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Salary Information
Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $90,900.58 to $136,350.88
Hourly Salary Range: $43.70 to $65.55
Benefits Information
Here, you matter. As a Children’s Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.
As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.
Children’s Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.
Salary : $44 - $66
