Laboratory Assistant

About This Role

This entry-level laboratory assistant position provides basic support to the daily operations of an analytical laboratory, ensuring a sterile and safe work environment. The role involves maintaining cleanliness, organizing supplies, and assisting other personnel with testing procedures, making it suitable for a detail-oriented individual keen to contribute to public health through laboratory support.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a clean laboratory by discarding waste and cleaning and sanitizing countertops, walls, floors, shelves, equipment, sinks, and water baths using cleaning solvents
• Maintain a clean laboratory by properly storing chemicals, reagents, and supplies, and ensuring adequate stock of these materials
• Clean and decontaminate equipment, glassware, metal instruments, sinks, water baths, tables, and test panels using solvents, water, acetone bath, cloth or hot-air drier, brushes, and rags
• Prepare and use cleaning solutions according to specifications
• Perform quality control checks such as temperature checks, balance verification, or detergent residue testing as required by department leadership
• Assist other laboratory personnel performing testing procedures as instructed by department leadership
• Maintain equipment, supplies, and instrumentation in working order to perform necessary preventative maintenance for operating departments
• Maintain knowledge of the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) that is required to complete job responsibilities
• Support corporate quality and continuous improvement process
• Ensure a safe working environment for the laboratory
• Participate in audits
• Maintain inventory, rotate supply, discard expired dry, refrigerated, and frozen materials, and retain as directed by department leadership
• Complete assigned tasks under supervision of department leadership, while working with the team to accomplish department goals
• Perform opening and closing duties as assigned by department leadership
• Clean glassware and other containers and return to the laboratory for use
• Perform other related duties as assigned
• Behave and operate in an ethical and Code of Conduct compliant manner at all times

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED
• Ability to follow specific instructions
• General knowledge of the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is required to enter client data and process client data
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle and exhibit safe driving skills may be required for operating a company vehicle
• Analytical skills are essential to complete analysis procedures and determine the concentration of the microorganism or analyte