Title and Standard Job Description Library

• Job Summary: The job summary is a brief statement explaining the primary functions of the job, including its main purpose and overall goal.
  Performs specimen collection, processing, testing, and result interpretation in a medical laboratory to support the treatment and diagnosis of disease. Calibrates and maintains equipment and updates patient medical records to support effective and accurate laboratory operation. Serves as the primary point of contact to internal and external stakeholders, leads established workflows, maintains standard operating procedures, and coordinates the maintenance, quality control, proficiency testing, and documentation of instrumentation.
• Job Responsibilities: Job responsibilities are the core job duties that people in this job usually perform.
  • Processes and performs routine to complex and specialized laboratory testing on biological specimens and identifies and resolves complex test problems
  • Analyzes, interprets, verifies, and communicates findings and test results to members of the patient care or research team
  • Operates sophisticated laboratory equipment, automated equipment, and computerized instruments, processing or conducting multiple experiments simultaneously
  • Reviews and troubleshoots laboratory results to ensure quality control and verify that results are within acceptable ranges
  • Operates, calibrates, and maintains clinical laboratory equipment
  • Logs data and findings and enters results into a patient's medical records
  • Coordinates and performs the testing, maintenance, quality control, proficiency testing, and administration of instrumentation devices
  • Develops and updates standard operating procedure(s) (SOPs)
  • Maintains organization of established record keeping system(s), supply orders, instrumentation maintenance, troubleshooting logs, quality control, and proficiency testing documentation
  • Serves as the primary point of contact to internal and external stakeholders on specimen processing, testing methodology, quality assessments, and result interpretation, and leads the workflow of unit staff as needed
• Education: Education describes the minimum level of education that people in this job usually have. Education that is a preferred minimum is recommended for this job but not required. Relevant work experience can satisfy preferred minimum education. A hiring manager may include additional education requirements when recruiting for a position.
  Bachelor's Degree Preferred Minimum
• FLSA Status: Federal regulations determine Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) status. Employees who are non-exempt receive overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week. Employees who are exempt do not receive overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week.
  Exempt
• Institution Job: A job that has primary responsibilities that impact the majority or the entirety of the institution, or has significantly larger scope than the school/college/division in which it resides, and typically contains “(Inst)” in the job title or mentions “institution” or “enterprise” in a standard job description.
  No
• Required Supervisory Duty of at Least 2.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees: The supervisor directly oversees the equivalent of at least 2.0 FTE employees or indirectly oversees one or more supervisors. The supervisor has the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, promote, manage conduct and performance, discharge, assign, reward, and discipline employees. The supervisor typically reviews the work of employees and may approve employee timesheets.
  No
• Employee Category: Each employee category is unique in type of work performed, job security, benefits package, and/or ability to organize unions. Assignment to an employee category is based upon job title. Refer to the UW–Madison Employment Categories policy for more information.
  Academic Staff
• Scaled Job: Jobs with the same title may have a different scope of work based on the school, college, or division where the work is performed. Scaling recognizes these differences based on the scope, impact, and complexity of the work performed. A scaled job title has multiple salary grades to align with market data. Learn more about job scaling.
  No
• Salary Range (Annual): Jobs in the same salary grade have similar pay in the market. Each salary grade has a salary range that includes a minimum and a maximum. A job is paid between the minimum and maximum of its salary grade. Learn more about UW's salary structure.
  21: $56,112-104,368
• Job Code: A job code identifies jobs in the university’s human resources system.
  HS094: Medical Laboratory Scientist II

Knowledges and Skills Learning Resources

Each standard job description is linked to a list of knowledges and skills. Knowledges and skills are optional resources to support employee learning and development. Visit the Knowledges and Skills Learning Resources website to learn more.

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