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Director, Laboratory Services

SSM Health
WI-SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Oct 2025

About the role

It's more than a career, it's a calling

WI-SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Janesville

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Named 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2024 - Becker's Healthcare

Names One of the Diversity Leaders 2024 – Modern Healthcare

Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity 2024 - Newsweek

Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2024 – Newsweek

Names One of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Job Starters 2024 – Newsweek

 

SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. The organization’s 40,000 team members and more than 13,900+ providers are committed to providing exceptional health care services and revealing God’s healing presence to everyone they serve.
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With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 12 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves.

 

To request additional information, confidentially submit your interest, or nominate a fellow colleague, please contact:

 

Jon Dirksen

Executive Talent Partner

jon.dirksen@ssmhealth.com

#LI-Onsite

Job Summary:

Performs the leadership function of setting objectives, planning, staffing and director activities of the laboratory. Responsible for the department’s overall delivery of service.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

Primary Responsibilities

  • Directs all areas within assigned lab.
  • Ensures compliance with QA/QC standards required by CAP, CLIA, FDA and other regulatory guidelines.
  • Directs or works directly on projects of complex scope.
  • Develops and implements quality improvement processes and performance improvement plans.
  • Develops financial plan.
  • Attends and participates in committees.
  • Develops policies, goals and objectives.
  • Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.

  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience and education

Experience

  • Bachelor's degree: Seven years' technical experience in a laboratory setting including two years' concurrent supervisory experience.
  • Master's degree or higher: Five years' technical experience in a laboratory setting including two years' concurrent supervisory experience.

Physical Requirements

  • Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
  • Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
  • Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
  • Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
  • Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
  • Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
  • Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
  • Rare climbing.

Required Professional License and/or Certifications

  • Blood Bank Technologist (BB) (International Included) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
  • Chemistry Technologist (C) (International Included) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
  • Clinical Chemist - California Department of Public Health
  • Clinical Chemist Scientist - California Department of Public Health
  • Clinical Hematologist Scientist - Califor

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