Manager, Autopsy Operations and Support Services

Duties

Essential Job Functions

• Oversees, plans, organizes, assigns, and evaluates the work of all forensic autopsy support services, through subordinate supervisors.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates daily operations, processes, and procedures to achieve established goals and objectives in accordance with department and National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) accreditation standards.
• Oversees all required training needs on the autopsy operations support services workforce, including associated with proper techniques, procedures, and operations of forensic, photographic, radiographic imaging (x-ray and CT), autopsy equipment.
• Oversees administrative personnel functions, such as conducting interviews and selecting staff, establishing performance requirements, coaching and mentoring staff, coordinating grief and trauma related events, and taking disciplinary action in accordance with County policies. Uses software programs associated with administrative functions (e.g., word processing, excel spreadsheets).
• Oversees and participates in the development of the Department’s annual budget. Determines funds required for personnel, equipment, materials and supplies for assigned areas. Monitors and approves expenditures and implements adjustments.
• Manages inventory of supplies, equipment, personal protective equipment, and autopsy-associated services are maintained and replenished timely, through coordination with administration to ensure requisitions and contracts are in place and budgeted.
• Oversees the preparation of highly sensitive documents by utilizing technical software applications associated with radiology and photography of all homicides, traffic-related cases, in-custody deaths, and infant related deaths for civil and criminal proceedings.
• Oversees the evidence collection program and ensures that all physical evidence found on decedents are properly collected and preserved for later forensic investigations, including the packaging of all clothing on homicide, hit-and-run, unidentified, and in-custody cases for law enforcement agencies.
• Oversees the identification section that identifies unidentified decedents, including the removal, preparation, and processing of fingers, fluoroscopies and dental/body x-rays, and the reconstruction of skeletal fragments of dental bite-wings, jaws, skulls, and other portions of the body.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of the various programs and units by comparing program outcomes to program goals, and up-to-date accreditation requirements to determine whether to continue, modify, or discontinue programs, including the consultation on the most complex forensic procedures.
• Drives a vehicle to perform job-related and essential duties.

 Earn a Degree in Crime Scene Investigation, Forensic Science, or Computer Forensics

Requirements

Option I:

• Two years of experience as a Supervising Forensic Technician for Los Angeles County.

Option II:

• Four years of experience assisting pathologists in performing autopsies at the level of Forensic Technician II*, two years of which must have been supervising** forensic technicians.

PHYSICAL EXPECTATIONS:

• 3 - Moderate: This class requires that the incumbent stand or walk most of the time with bending, stooping, squatting, twisting, reaching, working on irregular surfaces, occasional lifting of objects weighing over 25 pounds, and frequent lifting of 10-25 pounds.

LICENSE:

• A valid California Class “C” Driver License is required to perform job-related essential functions.

*In the County of Los Angeles, experience at the level of Forensic Technician II, is defined as under general supervision, photographs decedents and specimens and assists the pathologist in performing difficult autopsies using a variety of techniques to preserve medico-legal evidence; prepares bodies of deceased persons for autopsy examination and final deposition; receives, identifies and releases bodies and does other forensic technician work as required.
**Supervisory experience is defined as responsibility for planning, assigning, and reviewing the work of assigned staff, evaluating employee performance, participating in interviews and selecting new staff, and performance management.

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