Job Title: Lab Assistant – 3rd Shift
Job Duration: 6 months (Temp to hire/ Possible extension)
Job Location: Miramar, FL 33025
Shift: Tuesday – Saturday 1:30AM – 10:00AM with rotating weekends
Note: Lab Assistant 2nd shift role available (Tue- Sat 4:00pm to 12:30am)
Job Description
Perform various routine laboratory functions in a precise and accurate fashion to assist the laboratory professional staff and to facilitate production:
- 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.
- Finds 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 operates PCs.
- Disposes of biohazardous material.
- Completes training and competency checklists as appropriate.
- This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities, but rather a general description of the work performed by this position.
Requirements
- Minimum of 6 months experience of lab experience.
- High school diploma or equivalent.