Genomics Automation Specialist

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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.

The 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.

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.

• EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Engineering or related field, technology from an accredited institution.
• EXPERIENCE: Minimum four (4) years working in a high complexity clinical laboratory as a Medical Technologist, Application Scientist or Automation Engineer. 3+ years of demonstrated experience with next generation sequencing technologies highly preferred.
• EQUIVALENCY: Combination of post-high school education, job related certification and/or related experience equivalent to 4 years may be considered in lieu of minimum requirements.
• Previous experience with implementation and programming of NGS lab automation procedures using Perkin Elmer/Revvity instrumentation and LIS integration is strongly preferred.

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.

• Trains in analyzing, designing, building, modifying, implementing, testing, and debugging new or automated assays, and systems integration to increase scale and efficiencies in the laboratories, as applicable.
• Trains in preparing timelines, project plans and flow charts for the development or enhancement of new and existing automated protocols.
• Calibrate, maintain, and repair a variety of laboratory instruments, including liquid handling robotics, provide real-time support for automated equipment during live runs.
• Trains end user on instrument use and automated protocols, collaborates with the innovation team on programming and process design.
• Trains and assist 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.
• Trains in 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.
• Assists with performing liquid handling robotics tuning and configuring, developing backup and recovery processes during live runs, and coordinates system upgrades.
• Assists with writing stored procedures, packages, and/or functions.
• Participates in Production Support on-call rotation as necessary.

SCOPE & LEVEL

Guidelines: Possesses knowledge of the fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field of specialization. Gains experience on the job and assists higher levels in executing duties and tasks.

Complexity: Duties and tasks are typically routine and standardized but may be elevated depending on the role. Procedures, methods, and techniques to carry out work are generally, but not always, well defined. Resolves some questions and problems and escalates as needed.

Decision Making: Has little to no discretion in making decisions without escalating to a higher-level employee, supervisor and/or manager. Decisions and recommendations are limited to relating existing organizational policies to specific cases. Issues that are not covered by guidelines or that are without precedence are escalated.

Communication: Communicates factual information relative to the organization and/or own function generally with team members and peers only, but in some cases clients and/or the public. Uses little to no discretion or independent judgment but rather communicates within the parameters of clearly defined procedures and instructions.

Supervision Received: Works under direct supervision and work product is subject to frequent inspection. May assist in orienting and training lower-level employees.

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

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.

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.