# Lab Analyst III **Company**: ICON **Location**: San Antonio, TX **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://icon.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/broadbean_external/job/US-San-Antonio-TX-78232/Lab-Analyst-III_JR159678?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_6d45c627-fac ## Description ICON is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation united by a mission to bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster. As a Lab Analyst III, you will perform technical assignments and testing in the Laboratory Department. **Key Responsibilities:** - Conduct complex laboratory testing, analyses, and troubleshooting activities in accordance with established procedures, regulatory requirements, and quality standards, ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and integrity of study data. - Review, interpret, and evaluate laboratory results and trends, providing detailed technical assessments and recommendations to support clinical research studies and operational objectives. - Serve as a subject matter expert for assigned laboratory systems, methodologies, and instrumentation, providing technical guidance and support across the laboratory. - Lead quality control, quality assurance, method validation, and equipment qualification activities, including investigation and resolution of deviations, out-of-specification results, and laboratory issues. - Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to optimize laboratory workflows, improve efficiency, enhance data quality, and strengthen compliance processes. - Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including Clinical Operations, Data Management, Quality Assurance, Project Management, and Sponsors, to support study execution and laboratory deliverables. - Lead or support the implementation of new technologies, instrumentation, assays, and laboratory processes while ensuring appropriate validation and documentation requirements are met. - Author, review, and approve laboratory documentation, including SOPs, work instructions, validation protocols, deviation reports, CAPAs, and technical reports. - Mentor, train, and provide technical leadership to junior laboratory personnel, fostering development of laboratory skills, regulatory knowledge, and best practices. - Support inspection readiness activities and participate in internal audits, sponsor audits, and regulatory inspections as required. - May act as a lead analyst or laboratory coordinator for assigned studies, projects, or functional areas, ensuring timely completion of laboratory deliverables and adherence to study timelines. **Your Profile:** You will bring advanced scientific laboratory experience along with demonstrated technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and a commitment to quality and compliance in a regulated environment. **Required Qualifications and Experience:** - Bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific discipline, Clinical Laboratory Science, Medical Technology, Biology, Chemistry, or a related healthcare field. - Current Medical Technologist (MT/ASCP), Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS/ASCP), or Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT/ASCP) certification through the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), maintained in good standing throughout employment. - 5+ years of laboratory experience in a clinical research, diagnostic, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or other regulated laboratory environment. - Advanced knowledge of laboratory methodologies, analytical techniques, instrumentation, regulatory requirements, and quality systems applicable to laboratory operations. - Experience troubleshooting complex laboratory issues, validating laboratory processes, implementing corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), and supporting sponsor audits and regulatory inspections. - Proficiency with laboratory information management systems (LIMS), laboratory software applications, and data analysis tools. - Experience developing, reviewing, and maintaining laboratory documentation, including SOPs, validation records, and quality documentation. - Demonstrated experience serving as a technical lead, study lead, subject matter expert, or mentor within a laboratory environment. - Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and project management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and drive continuous improvement initiatives. - Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, including experience training, coaching, and mentoring laboratory staff. - Working knowledge of applicable regulatory and quality standards, including GCP, GLP, GMP, CLIA, CAP, COLA, and other relevant industry requirements. **Rewards & Benefits:** ICON offers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and career development. Benefits may include: - Competitive base salary and performance related incentives - Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable - Retirement and pension plans - Life assurance and disability coverage - Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources - Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways ## Skills ### Required - laboratory testing - analytical techniques - instrumentation - regulatory requirements - quality systems - LIMS - data analysis tools - laboratory documentation - troubleshooting - validation - CAPA - GCP - GLP - GMP - CLIA - CAP - COLA --- Source: [Apply at icon.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com](https://icon.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/broadbean_external/job/US-San-Antonio-TX-78232/Lab-Analyst-III_JR159678?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)