Senior Laboratory Scientist

We're Hiring: Senior Laboratory Scientist

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Senior

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a globally focused healthcare and scientific organization committed to delivering accurate, reliable, and high-quality laboratory services that support clinical decision-making, research, diagnostics, and patient care.

Our multidisciplinary teams collaborate across Laboratory Medicine, Pathology, Clinical Services, Research, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Technology, and Operations to maintain rigorous scientific standards, reliable laboratory workflows, and continuous improvement.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Laboratory Scientist to provide advanced scientific and technical expertise across laboratory operations, testing, quality assurance, method development, data interpretation, and laboratory improvement programs.

The ideal candidate will oversee complex laboratory activities, ensure analytical accuracy and reliability, support validation and verification of methods, investigate quality issues, maintain compliance with applicable standards, and provide technical guidance to laboratory scientists and support teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform and oversee complex laboratory testing in accordance with approved methods, procedures, and quality standards.
• Review test requests, specimens, clinical information, and laboratory requirements before processing.
• Ensure appropriate specimen collection, identification, handling, transportation, storage, and processing.
• Perform laboratory analyses using appropriate instruments, techniques, methodologies, and controls.
• Review analytical results for accuracy, completeness, plausibility, and consistency.
• Identify results requiring repeat testing, additional investigation, technical review, or clinical escalation.
• Operate, monitor, and maintain laboratory analyzers, instruments, equipment, and supporting systems.
• Perform routine equipment checks, calibration, maintenance, and performance verification.
• Coordinate preventive maintenance and technical servicing with biomedical engineering, suppliers, and equipment specialists.
• Monitor reagent, consumable, calibrator, and control inventory to support uninterrupted laboratory operations.
• Verify reagent quality, storage conditions, lot information, expiry dates, and acceptance requirements.
• Perform method verification, validation, comparison, and implementation activities for new or modified laboratory methods.
• Develop and review analytical procedures, work instructions, testing protocols, and laboratory standard operating procedures.
• Establish appropriate quality-control procedures for laboratory testing and analytical processes.
• Monitor internal quality-control results and investigate trends, shifts, biases, and out-of-control events.
• Participate in external quality-assessment, proficiency-testing, and interlaboratory comparison programs.
• Investigate nonconformities, analytical errors, specimen issues, instrument failures, and unexpected results.
• Conduct root-cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Track corrective actions through completion and verify their effectiveness.
• Monitor laboratory quality indicators and identify opportunities for process improvement.
• Support laboratory audits, inspections, accreditation activities, and regulatory assessments.
• Maintain accurate laboratory records, quality documentation, equipment logs, validation records, and analytical documentation.
• Ensure laboratory activities comply with applicable professional, regulatory, quality, safety, and organizational requirements.
• Follow appropriate biosafety, chemical-safety, infection-control, and laboratory-risk-management procedures.
• Handle biological specimens, chemicals, reagents, and laboratory materials safely and appropriately.
• Maintain appropriate controls for potentially infectious, hazardous, toxic, or otherwise restricted laboratory materials.
• Ensure laboratory waste is segregated, stored, handled, and disposed of according to approved procedures.
• Support laboratory emergency procedures involving spills, exposure incidents, equipment failures, power interruptions, and other operational disruptions.
• Contribute to laboratory workflow planning, workload allocation, turnaround-time management, and operational efficiency.
• Monitor test volumes, pending workloads, turnaround times, staffing requirements, and capacity constraints.
• Support prioritization of urgent, critical, or time-sensitive laboratory testing.
• Collaborate with physicians, pathologists, nurses, researchers, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals where applicable.
• Communicate technical findings, analytical limitations, specimen concerns, and quality issues clearly to appropriate stakeholders.
• Provide technical support for complex or unusual laboratory cases within professional scope.
• Support interpretation of laboratory data and identify analytical factors that may affect result reliability.
• Maintain awareness of pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical sources of error.
• Review laboratory processes to identify opportunities to reduce errors, rework, delays, waste, and unnecessary testing.
• Support automation, laboratory information systems, digital workflows, and data-management initiatives.
• Ensure accurate entry, verification, transmission, and reporting of laboratory results through approved systems.
• Monitor laboratory information-system interfaces and escalate technical or data-integrity issues.
• Protect confidential patient, research, and laboratory information in accordance with applicable privacy requirements.
• Supervise, mentor, and provide technical guidance to laboratory scientists, technologists, technicians, assistants, interns, and trainees.
• Conduct competency assessments and support onboarding, training, and professional-development programs.
• Develop training materials and provide instruction on laboratory methods, equipment, quality procedures, safety, and documentation.
• Review staff performance and identify technical competency or training requirements.
• Promote a culture of scientific integrity, quality, accountability, safety, and continuous improvement.
• Participate in laboratory research, method-development, validation, and innovation initiatives where applicable.
• Evaluate emerging laboratory technologies, analytical platforms, automation, and scientific methodologies.
• Support procurement evaluations and technical assessments of laboratory instruments, reagents, consumables, and services.
• Participate in vendor evaluations, technical demonstrations, equipment acceptance, and implementation activities.
• Establish technical requirements and quality expectations for laboratory suppliers and service providers.
• Prepare laboratory performance reports covering quality, testing volumes, turnaround times, incidents, equipment, and improvement initiatives.
• Support management with technical analysis, laboratory performance insights, resource requirements, and improvement recommendations.
• Maintain current knowledge of scientific developments, laboratory technologies, professional standards, and relevant regulations.
• Participate in professional meetings, scientific conferences, continuing education, and laboratory quality initiatives.

Key Performance Indicators

• Analytical accuracy
• Analytical precision
• Laboratory turnaround time
• Test completion rate
• Quality-control compliance
• Internal quality-control performance
• External proficiency-testing performance
• Method validation completion
• Method verification accuracy
• Specimen rejection rate
• Specimen identification accuracy
• Pre-analytical error rate
• Analytical error rate
• Post-analytical error rate
• Repeat-testing rate
• Nonconformity rate
• Corrective-action closure rate
• Corrective-action effectiveness
• Critical-result reporting compliance
• Result verification accuracy
• Laboratory information-system accuracy
• Equipment uptime
• Equipment downtime
• Preventive maintenance completion
• Calibration compliance
• Reagent availability
• Inventory accuracy
• Reagent wastage
• Laboratory productivity
• Test-volume capacity
• Urgent-test turnaround performance
• Laboratory safety compliance
• Biosafety compliance
• Chemical-safety compliance
• Waste-management compliance
• Audit performance
• Accreditation compliance
• Staff competency completion
• Training completion
• Technical competency assessment results
• Patient or clinician satisfaction
• Laboratory incident rate
• Quality-improvement project completion
• Process efficiency improvement
• Cost per test
• Automation utilization
• Vendor performance
• Scientific project delivery
• Continuous-improvement savings

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate should have strong experience in clinical laboratory science, medical laboratory science, biomedical science, laboratory medicine, molecular diagnostics, pathology laboratories, research laboratories, or related scientific environments, depending on the laboratory discipline.

The candidate should demonstrate:

• Appropriate professional qualification in Laboratory Science, Medical Laboratory Science, Biomedical Science, Biology, Chemistry, Molecular Biology, or a related discipline.
• Valid professional registration, certification, or licensure where required by the relevant jurisdiction and laboratory specialty.
• Strong practical experience performing and reviewing laboratory testing.
• Advanced knowledge of laboratory methods, analytical principles, quality control, and result verification.
• Experience with laboratory method validation, verification, implementation, and performance evaluation.
• Strong understanding of pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical quality requirements.
• Experience with laboratory analyzers, instruments, automation, and scientific equipment.
• Strong understanding of calibration, quality control, proficiency testing, and laboratory quality management.