Laboratory Operations
Scientific / research IC
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Entry: Laboratory SpecialistIC ceiling: IC8Both
Individual contributor route
Technical or professional depth, without managing people.
- Laboratory Specialist InternIC0Optional developmental level
- Associate Laboratory SpecialistIC1
- Laboratory SpecialistIC2
- Senior Laboratory SpecialistIC3
- Staff Laboratory SpecialistIC4
- Principal Laboratory SpecialistIC5
- Senior Principal Laboratory SpecialistIC6
- Distinguished Laboratory SpecialistIC7
- Fellow, Laboratory OperationsIC8
Management route
Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.
This family has no management ladder.
Source: PROCOMER FTZ benchmark; employer career sites