Job Title: Lab Assistant 1st Shift
Location: Clifton, NJ
Duration: 6 Months (Possibilities of extension)
Shift Time: Sunday to Thursday, 9:00Am to 5:30Pm
Job Description:
- Perform the daily activities as described below.
- Basic Purpose: Perform various routine laboratory functions in a precise and accurate fashion to assist the laboratory professional staff and to facilitate production.
Responsibilities:
- Sorting, and receiving specimens in the department.
- Performs routine instrument maintenance on some equipment.
- Performs laboratory tasks of centrifuging specimens, printing extra labels, recording data (temperature charts) specimen storage and retrieval.
- Preparing reagents and or media in the department.
- Preparing specimens at workstations for testing. (Including building worklists, aliquoting specimens into sample cups, checking specimens for clots and fibrin, inoculation, slide preparation)
- Performs QA/QC duties as assigned.
- Resolves pending lists.
- Find missing samples.
- Decontaminates work areas.
- Performs weekly radioactive wipe tests.
- Maintains files for department records.
- Changes gas cylinders.
- Follows all PPE requirements and all safety regulations.
- Uses the laboratory computer system as well as PCs operates.
- Disposes of biohazardous material.
- Completes training and competency checklists as appropriate.
Required Experience:
- None required
Required Education:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
Required Skills:
- Must have the ability to establish work priorities and to handle several tasks for maximum workstation efficiency.
- Must be able to retain information once learned.
- Must interact with other coworkers, internal and external customers with courtesy and respect.