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Laboratory Manager - Career Profile |
Career OverviewAs their title suggests laboratory managers direct and supervise chemical, medical, and microbiological laboratories; establishing and enforcing quality control procedures; managing budgets; overseeing training of staff members, planning, scheduling, and assigning work to different laboratory personnel. They may counsel industry representatives, and the public on legal and technical requirements.
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Career RequirementsThe basic prerequisite for a laboratory manager is a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, biochemistry, medical technology, microbiology, or a closely related field. Some positions require master’s degrees and stipulate several years experience in a laboratory environment.
Laboratory managers must be competent at evaluating information, managing data methodologies, organizing, planning, and managing staff of various scientific professionals and technicians.
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Job OutlookDiagnostic testing and medical research are stable ingredients of the current health care system. The job outlook for laboratory managers, who are responsible for overseeing the work of the various institutions that undertake vital medical tests and research, is favorable into the foreseeable future, although the better positions will be more readily available to those with advanced degrees and extensive experience working in laboratory environments.
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Career TrackFor the most part, laboratory managers work in offices near or within laboratories. They may be employed to run hospital, clinical, government, or private laboratories that serve a variety of different functions within the broader medical community.
Advancement for laboratory managers is generally within the context of a promotion to manage a larger laboratory or reassignment from managing a general medical laboratory to managing a laboratory with more specialized functions.
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CompensationStandard compensation for laboratory managers ranges between $45,000 and $70,000 per year depending upon experience and the precise nature of the job. Additional benefits may include paid vacations, medical and dental insurance, and disability insurance.
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