Manager, Environmental Monitoring

AT LIFENET HEALTH, YOU ARE THE ADVANTAGE

Every day, YOU help us to save lives, restore health, and bring hope to patients and families around the world. At LifeNet Health, we cultivate growth, innovation, and collaboration, where your contributions drive solutions that benefit humanity.

Together, we are united by a mission greater than ourselves, a purpose rooted in healing.

ABOUT THIS JOB
Location: Manager, Environmental Monitoring

Department: Quality Control Lab

Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:15AM – 5:00PM

Clinical Status: Clinical

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT
As a Manager, Environmental Monitoring you’ll play a vital role in advancing our mission. In this position, you’ll be responsible for leading LifeNet Health’s Environmental Monitoring Program, ensuring all facilities consistently meet regulatory, accreditation, and internal quality requirements. This role serves as the primary operational liaison for technical matters, nonconformances, audits, and inspections, while also providing leadership and administrative oversight of the Environmental Monitoring team. This Manager ensures operational effectiveness of the laboratory information system in area of responsibility

Your work will have purpose every single day, contributing directly to life-changing outcomes.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• People Management & Talent Development: Provides oversight to assigned team by supervising, guiding and directing employees to be effective team members. Ensures that everyone is equipped with the right skills, tools, and talents necessary for executing their duties. Using the established people processes (performance, development, succession, and career) to ensure that their team’s level of performance and capabilities meet current and future standards.
• Environmental Monitoring Program Management: Leads the design, implementation, and maintenance of a comprehensive environmental monitoring program across multiple controlled processing facilities, including water, surface, personnel, and viable and non-viable particulate monitoring. Ensures program effectiveness, consistency, and alignment with organizational standards.
• Testing & Compliance: Oversees receipt of samples, testing, and records associated with Environmental Monitoring requirements. Performs trend analysis and reporting of Environmental Monitoring data. Ensures all monitoring activities, records, and quality systems comply with regulatory and accreditation requirements. Initiates, investigates, and resolves nonconformances and complaints through the CAPA system.
• Data Analysis & Improvement: Analyzes environmental monitoring data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities. Supports data-driven decisions and continuous improvement efforts.
• Process & Technician Oversight: Develops and maintains procedures, SOPs, and technical documentation. Supports validation activities for processes, equipment, and facilities. Provides technical guidance on environmental monitoring and ensures effective use of laboratory information systems.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING
Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• THREE (3) Years – Experience in a leadership role managing direct reports
• FOUR (4) Years – Experience in Cleanroom Environmental Monitoring, including experience using aseptic technique

Preferred Experience/Skills/Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree – Microbiology, Chemistry, Physical or Biological Science
• CTBS Certification
• Knowledge of Environmental Monitoring Regulations (US and EU)
   

Key Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Regulatory Compliance: Knowledge of regulation, accreditation policies governing tissues and medical devices (FDA, AATB, ISO)
• Validation: Cleaning, Recovery Efficiency, Neutralization
• Laboratory Information Systems: Knowledge of LIS database design, configuration, validation
• People Development: Actively engages in talent management practices (selection, promotion, development, and engagement) to cultivate