Senior Lead Implementation Specialist, TIC Industry SME
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You will serve as a leading TIC industry SME on strategic enterprise engagements leading discovery, aligning platform capability to real-world TIC workflows, and building client-side ownership. When TIC project demand allows, you will operate as a full-cycle Implementation Specialist across our broader client portfolio.
This role blends deep TIC industry credibility, LIMS implementation expertise, workflow analysis, and customer-facing leadership. Your value is your depth of real-world TIC knowledge and your ability to translate that into implementations that optimize the ROI for our clients., TIC Industry SME:
- Serve as a primary TIC domain expert on enterprise client engagements the person in the room who makes lab leadership feel understood
- Lead structured discovery sessions with lab and quality managers, lab analysts and other stakeholders to document current-state workflows, pain points, and system requirements
- Validate test method mappings, instrument configurations, and calculation logic against real lab outputs
- Develop client super users and a client center of excellence
- Build and maintain the global lab rollout playbook each implementation should be faster and cleaner than the last
- Feed real-world TIC insights directly into product roadmap prioritization
Implementation Leadership & Customer Partnership:
- Lead full-cycle LIMS/QC as primary client-facing project resource
- Partner with lab, operations, IT, and compliance stakeholders to gather requirements and configure workflows
- Guide project planning and execution to ensure on-time delivery, adoption, and long-term success
- Serve as the primary implementation lead and refinery lab SME during customer deployments
LIMS Configuration & Workflow Design:
- Configure LIMS workflows to support sample tracking, QC testing and results validation, instrument data capture product release and compliance requirements
- Support instrument integration across GC/LC, titrators, AA/ICP, distillation, and other common analyzers
- Align configurations with ASTM-based testing and refinery quality operations
- Identify opportunities to replace or upgrade existing workflows and disparate systems as part of long-term platform strategy
Training, Change Management & Adoption:
- Deliver structured training across lab teams at varying technical skill levels chemists, technicians, supervisors, managers
- Coach labs through rollout readiness, process changes, and system adoption
- Develop super users and internal champions who own the platform after go-live
- Produce documentation, SOPs, job aids, and knowledge transfer materials
Continuous Improvement & Internal Contribution:
- Troubleshoot technical and process issues during implementation and go-live support
- Identify opportunities to improve lab workflows, data quality, efficiency, and reporting through system optimization
- Provide structured feedback to internal product and development teams based on real-world client needs
- Support team standardization through reusable templates, configuration patterns, and best practices
- Mentor junior implementation specialists as needed
Requirements
Do you have experience in Testing and evaluation?, * 5+ years inside TIC, contract laboratory operations a wide range of hands-on experiences required
- Familiarity with TIC ERP/LIMS platforms
- ISO 17025, ISO 9001, ASTM D6299, and EPA Part 1090 familiarity
- Demonstrated knowledge of ASTM-aligned lab testing, instrument maintenance and calibration, and quality and compliance systems
- Hands-on experience with LIMS, ERP, or lab automation systems as power user, administrator, or implementation lead
- Broad exposure across multiple lab disciplines, methodologies, and testing verticals
- Strong communication and training skills comfortable with a bench analyst and a VP on the same site visit, and credible with both
- Experience navigating complex, multi-stakeholder environments with competing priorities
- Willingness to travel 25-50% to client sites across the US and globally
Preferred Qualifications:
- Multi-site or global lab program exposure
- Experience as a Laboratory Manager or Supervisor, including cross-functional collaboration, scheduling, and performance coaching
- Working knowledge of SQL, Excel data handling, or basic IT/lab systems administration
- Experience in a client-facing advisory or consulting capacity
- Involvement in laboratory technology evaluation, selection, and rollout initiatives
Benefits & conditions
Why Join Datacor Lab Solutions Group:
- Work on the large-scale, dynamic enterprise TIC rollout - 100+ global labs
- Directly influence what we build next your field experience shapes the product roadmap
- Join a team that understands lab reality many of us have lived it
- Competitive compensation, benefits, remote flexibility, and meaningful customer-facing work