Senior Laboratory Technologist, Newborn Screening Ontario – Permanent Full-Time (1.0)

Compensation Pay Range:$44.37-$54.87Job Description:Please Note: If you are a current CHEO employee with access to Workday, please apply to this posting via the Workday application as an internal applicant using the Jobs Hub.To successfully apply for this position, please submit your application by 11:59 pm the day before the advertised closing date in the posting to ensure your application is received.  Ottawa is built on un-ceded Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. The peoples of the Algonquin Anishinabek Nation have lived on this territory for millennia and we honour them and this land. Their culture and presence have nurtured and continue to nurture this land. CHEO also honours all First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples and their valuable past and present contributions to this land. CHEO is one of the few stand-alone, global leaders in pediatric health and is home to more than 6,500 staff, clinicians, scientists and researchers, as well as volunteers – all of whom work together to help children and youth achieve their best lives. Within its own walls and through partnerships with community providers, CHEO has transformed from a 20th century acute care hospital into a 21st century integrated child and youth health system. Ranked in the top 1% of Canadian hospitals for the digitization of its clinical infrastructure, CHEO combines excellence in clinical care, research, and education to advance seamless care that’s provided where, when, and how it is needed. CHEO’s Research Institute is dedicated to world-class clinical, translational, and basic science research covering a wide range of children’s health concerns. CHEO has been named Canada’s best health-care employer by Forbes in 2024, 2025 and 2026 and is ranked second among Canadian hospitals on its list of Canada’s Best Employers for multiple consecutive years. For the 14th consecutive year in a row, the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers has recognized CHEO as a top employer in the National Capital Region. Every year CHEO helps more than 500,000 children and youth from Eastern Ontario, western Quebec, Nunavut and Northern Ontario.POSITION SUMMARYNewborn Screening Ontario (NSO) offers screening for serious diseases to the approximately 140,000 babies born in Ontario each year. The NSO laboratory uses complex testing methods including tandem mass spectrometry, automated immunoassays, HPLC, automated enzymatic assays, and molecular genetic assays.NSO is committed to continuous quality improvement and being global leaders in screening through research, development, education, and innovation.The senior technologist in the Newborn Screening Laboratory provides technical expertise and supervision for laboratory staff, and works in close collaboration with the laboratory director and other laboratory staff, in addition to the medical and operations directors.MAIN RESPONSIBILITIESProvide daily laboratory supervision with respect to:technical guidancetrouble-shootingresearch and dev...