Chief Forensic Laboratories

🚨 We’re Hiring: Chief Forensic Laboratories🚨

📍 Onsite | Los Angeles County Department Medical Examiner

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About Us:

The Department of Medical Examiner investigates and determines the circumstances, manners and cause of all violent, sudden or unusual deaths occurring within the County.  

Each year approximately 18,000 cases are reported to the Department, of which about half fall within its jurisdiction. We conduct about 5,700 autopsies per year, making it one of the largest medical and most technologically sophisticated examiner’s offices in the world, due to the complexity of cases investigated, including numerous high-profile cases.

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Exciting Opportunity:

 🚨 Career opportunity! The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner is seeking a dynamic leader to serve as Chief, Forensic Laboratories. In this pivotal role you’ll direct the Forensic Science Laboratories Division—overseeing teams that handle toxicology, DNA, —ensuring that their work supports investigations, the justice system, and families with the highest level of scientific integrity and accreditation.

If you’re passionate about forensic science leadership, operational excellence and cutting-edge public service, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do:

As Chief, Forensic Laboratories, you will lead and have direct charge of the Forensic Laboratory Division.

✔️ Directs the administrative and technical activities of all laboratory personnel, including those involved in chemical and physical analysis. 

✔️Coordinates the activities of the division with other laboratories, legal and law enforcement agencies, the courts, and scientific associations. 

✔️Directs and participates in researching new methods, procedures, and techniques for scientific medico-legal investigations. 

✔️Oversees the development and implementation of training programs for laboratory personnel. 

✔️Prepares the division's budget, including requests for personnel, equipment, supplies, or facility modifications. 

✔️Manages the grant administration process, including identifying funding opportunities; overseeing the development and writing of grant proposals and applications; monitoring grant spending; ensuring compliance with all terms and conditions of grants and funding agencies; and overseeing grant closeout procedures. 

✔️Ensures the division's compliance with accreditation standards in accordance with established policies and procedures for ongoing quality improvement.

✔️Reviews and approves written findings that are subject to legal proceedings; testifies findings as established by laboratory analyses; and interprets findings as an expert witness.

What You’ll Need:

🎓 Education: A Doctorate degree from an accredited college with specialization in chemistry, biochemistry, toxicology, pharmacology, criminalistics, physics, or biology

💼 Experience:

• Two years of experience supervising personnel in a forensic sciences laboratory

📌 Alternative Education/Experience Options:

• A Master's degree from an accredited college with specialization in chemistry, biochemistry, toxicology, pharmacology, criminalistics, physics, or biology AND three (3) years of experience supervising personnel in a forensic sciences laboratory
• A Bachelor’s degree* from an accredited college or university with specialization in chemistry, biochemistry, toxicology, pharmacology, criminalistics, physics, or biology AND four (4) years of experience supervising personnel in a forensic sciences laboratory as a Supervising Criminalist I*** within the County of Los Angeles.