Local Contract Manager - Medical Lab Scientist - $45-50 per hour - Rang Healthcare : Job Details

Rang Healthcare is seeking a local contract Medical Lab Scientist Manager for a local contract job in Janesville, Wisconsin.

• Specialty: Medical Lab Scientist
• Discipline: AlliedHealth Professional
• Start Date: 09/29/2025
• Duration: 52 weeks
• 40 hours per week
• Shift: 8 hours, days
• Employment Type: Local Contract

Manager, Laboratory Services

- 80 hours / 2 weeks

- Monday to Friday Day Shift Hours with 24/7 accountability

- This position will be located at the Mercyhealth Hospital and Trauma Center in Janesville, WI.

Experience a rewarding and fulfilling career with Mercyhealth. Mercyhealth is committed to offering our partners a best place to work. Our unique workplace Culture of Excellence is built upon:

• Employee engagement, empowerment and growth
• Teamwork toward our common goal – providing exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better
• An atmosphere of caring and quality that cascades throughout the organization

Join our compassionate Laboratory team where you are more than an employee!

Mercyhealth is a non-profit, fully-integrated healthcare system that includes 6 hospitals and 85 ambulatory practices in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois serving 56 communities. We have 10 accredited labs - soon to be 12. There are more than 200 lab partners across the system. This position works with a team of five managers and a director.

This position will assist the Lab director with overall operation of the laboratory to ensure quality laboratory services throughout Mercyhealth. Works with the laboratory leadership team to develop annual goals to achieve the health system goals and initiatives.

Mercyhealth offers a generous total rewards package to eligible employees including, but not limited to:

· Comprehensive Benefits Package: Mercyhealth offers a retirement plan with competitive matching contribution, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance options, life and disability coverage, access to flexible spending plans, and a variety of other discounted voluntary benefit options.

· Competitive Compensation: Mercyhealth offers market competitive rates of pay and participates in various shift differential and special pay incentive programs.

· Paid Time Off: Mercyhealth offers a generous paid time off plan, which increases with milestone anniversaries, to allow employees the opportunity for a great work-life balance.

· Career Advancement: Mercyhealth offers a number of educational assistance programs and career ladders to support employees in their educational journey and advancement within Mercyhealth.

· Employee Wellbeing: Mercyhealth has a focus on wellbeing for employees across the organization and offers a number of tools and resources, such as an employer-sponsored health risk assessment and a Wellbeing mobile application, to assist employees on their wellbeing journey.

· Additional Benefits: Mercyhealth employees have access to our internal and external employee assistance programs, employee-only discount packages, paid parental and caregiver leaves, on-demand pay, special payment programs for patient services, and financial education to help with retirement planning.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assures compliance with current standards of accrediting and regulatory agencies and maintains a state of continuous survey readiness.
• Assures all partners competency checks are performed in a timely manner; assures appropriate documentation of education, registry and training. Administrates continuing education program including documentation of all continuing education activities.
• Coordinates and administrates the performance improvement process; coordinates production of new indicators, collects data, updates and posts dashboards and communicates results with partners.
• Reviews and updates and develops general lab and safety policies
• Investigates new technology as it becomes available, validates applicability to Mercyhealth labs, sets up demonstrations, gathers quotes and produces financial impact reports. Coordinates implementation of new technology; assures appropriate validation, training, procedures and documentation.
• Administers Proficiency Testing Program; ordering appropriate products, monitoring performance, assisting with unsatisfactory result investigations.
• Responds to Occurrence reports and Customer Comment Cards; performs investigation, completes response, contacts patient and makes procedural or partner corrections as necessary.
• Serves on appropriate interdepartmental committees.
• Plans for staffing needs; provides appropriate information to support requests for new positions. Interviews, selects and hires appropriate mix of partners.
• Completes performance evaluations on direct reports.
• Revises and reviews job descriptions as necessary; develops new descriptions as necessary.
• Works with partners on day to day problem resolution, development of skills for career ladder and performs corrective actions and performance improvement plans as necessary.
• Coordinates onboarding of new partners; sets up Epic/Beaker (Hospital Information/Lab Information System) access, keycard access, performs general lab orientation and basic Beaker training on all new hires.
• Assesses and promotes efficient utilization of systems, personnel and equipment.
• Assists with budgeting; obtains quotes for capital equipment, plans for staffing needs. Reviews monthly financial reports, investigates discrepancies and finds solutions to keep on target with fiscal year budget goals.

Level of Supervision

Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision.

Supervises

Laboratory Partners

Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree in medical laboratory science.
• Three to five years' experience in a lab leadership position.
• Experience in a multi-hospital setting preferred.
• Lean and six sigma experience preferred.

Certification and Licensure

• ASCP certification preferred.

“We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide employment, compensation, and other benefits related to employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, national or ethnic origin, disability, veteran status, age, genetic information, citizenship, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.”

Founded in 2005, Rang Healthcare (a division of Rang Technologies Inc) has been staffing clients for over 17 years for administrative, nursing and IT/Systems. Rang Healthcare offers extensive recruiting experience in a cost-effective manner. We help institutions successfully reduce complexity, boost productivity, and enhance patient outcomes.

We provide the specialized talent and expertise you require, whether it's for a direct hire, contract-to-hire, or contract position. It is now even more vital to collaborate with a firm that has the knowledge and expertise to provide the best in class and most qualified personnel. You can count on the Rang Healthcare for talent acquisition.

We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide employment, compensation, and other benefits related to employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, national or ethnic origin, disability, veteran status, age, genetic information, citizenship, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.

• 401k retirement plan
• Dental benefits
• Referral bonus
• Vision benefits
• Weekly pay