[Hiring] Project Support Specialist I @Goldbelt

Role Description

As a Project Support Specialist I, the candidate shall provide and carry out a broad array of scientific and programming activities.

Responsibilities

• Compliance
  • Conduct routine audits to determine if newly implemented practices and policies are being followed.
  • Update documents and forms, ensuring they are available to PRB staff at all times.
  • Check updates to documents for required training to PRB staff, and document trainings when they occur.
  • Conduct routine audits of branch quality management systems and work with PRB regulatory affairs manager to audit required documents for select agent compliance.
  • Review CLIA compliance.
  • Review the overall quality system to confirm that the branch maintains agency requirements.
  • Identify records and determine schedule for review of records, if necessary.
  • Schedule destruction of records when mandatory retention time has been met.
  • Ensure a certificate of destruction has been generated after the records have been appropriately destroyed.
• Equipment Maintenance Coordination
  • Work with property managers, laboratory managers, and the administration team to track branch equipment.
  • Create and maintain preventative maintenance schedules and upload all documentation into eQMS (ComplianceQuest).
  • Determine which equipment requires maintenance agreements and assign a schedule to ensure equipment contracts are submitted in a timely manner.
  • Maintain an accurate inventory of all PRB equipment.
  • Maintain a database of points of contact for equipment, who will be responsible for routine maintenance and training.
  • Serve as one of the branch training administrators and assist the training coordinator in tracking trainings as needed.
  • Assist the training coordinator in gathering documents required for laboratory access packets.
  • Act as alternate property custodian on PRB property accounts.
  • Perform property management of lab and office equipment.
  • Account for all personal property within your assigned custodial area, and ensure PMIS records are current and accurate at all times.
  • Initiate or process documents affecting equipment, and ensure all property movement into or out of the custodial area is documented properly.
  • Complete HHS form 439 (Personal Custody Property Record) when end-users remove items from CDC’s campus for telework, field use, or conferences.
  • Continuously review records to ensure that property is maintained properly, protected, and used only for official purposes.
  • Identify and report any underutilized or unneeded property.
  • Report any property determined to be lost, damaged, missing, or stolen immediately to the Security Operations Center.
  • Assist in the annual physical inventory and joint inventories for account transfer, and conduct your own physical inventory when appropriate.
  • Ensure exit clearance procedures for all assigned property are followed before an end user’s departure.
  • Ensure acknowledgments and transfers are fully supported and entered in PMIS promptly.
  • Attend regularly scheduled property training sessions.
• Microbiology Services
  • Work in the CLIA BSL-2 Laboratory to accession specimens, prepare for processing, and perform molecular assays as needed.
  • Aid in molecular testing (PCR).
  • Provide assistance for eLIMS as needed.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of laboratory quality management systems, regulatory compliance, document control, records management, and routine audit practices.
• Familiarity with CLIA requirements, laboratory quality standards, and compliance practices applicable to BSL-2 laboratory operations.
• Ability to conduct routine audits, identify documentation or process deficiencies, track corrective actions, and verify adherence to established policies and procedures.
• Experience maintaining controlled documents, training records, retention schedules, certificates of destruction, and other quality or regulatory records.
• Strong organizational and coordination skills for managing preventive maintenance schedules, service agreements, equipment documentation, and laboratory inventories.
• Knowledge of property and asset management practices, including equipment tracking, transfers, physical inventories, custodial records, and disposition of excess or damaged property.
• Experience using electronic quality management, laboratory information, inventory, or asset-management systems; ability to accurately maintain electronic records and databases.
• Ability to coordinate staff training requirements, maintain training documentation, and assist with laboratory access and onboarding documentation.
• Basic knowledge of microbiology and molecular laboratory procedures, including specimen accessioning, sample preparation, nucleic acid testing, and PCR.
• Strong attention to detail, written and verbal communication skills, and ability to work effectively with laboratory managers, property staff, quality personnel, administrative teams, and technical staff.

Requirements

• Associate or Bachelor's in microbiology, biology, laboratory science, quality assurance, public health, health sciences, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain CDC Public Trust Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in microbiology, biology, laboratory science, quality assurance, public health, health sciences, or a related field.
• Approximately 5-7 years of relevant experience in laboratory operations, quality assurance, regulatory compliance, property management, or scientific program coordination.
• Experience working in a CLIA-regulated clinical or public health laboratory environment.
• Experience with quality management systems, internal audits, document control, training management, or regulatory compliance activities.
• Familiarity with select agent compliance, laboratory biosafety requirements, or other regulated laboratory programs.
• Experience coordinating preventive maintenance, calibration, service contracts, or inventory for laboratory equipment.
• Experience with electronic quality management systems such as ComplianceQuest, LIMS/eLIMS, or comparable laboratory information systems.
• Experience managing government, institutional, or laboratory property inventories and associated accountability documentation.
• Hands-on experience with specimen accessioning, molecular testing, PCR, or other routine BSL-2 laboratory procedures.
• Experience supporting multidisciplinary laboratory operations involving quality, compliance, training, equipment, property, and administrative functions.
• Prior experience with CDC.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary commensurate with your qualifications and experience.
• Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company matching.
• Tax-deferred savings options.
• Supplementary benefits.
• Paid time off.
• Professional development opportunities.