Lab Technician

Job Responsibilities:

• Maintain chemical inventory, including but not limited to: SDS repository maintenance, removing expired chemicals, general organization, and audits.
• Prepare reagent solutions for use as diluents, buffers, and media.
• Actively monitors consumables and media supplies for which responsibility is assigned.
• Carefully follow company, departmental and local safety policies, and procedures.
• Keeps safety training and training records complete and up to date.
• Completes and maintains RCRA certification.
• Handles solvent and other liquid wastes.
• Act as liaison for customer requests (e.g. instrument service needed).
• Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job at any time.

Job Requirements and Qualifications:

Basic Qualification: (Required Education & Experience)

• Bachelor’s degree in life science discipline or equivalent
• Previous work experience in a customer facing role

Preferred Experience:

• Previous experience working in R&D or a regulated environment.
• Demonstrates appropriate use of relevant equipment: documented training, demonstrated hands on ability
• Understands current regulatory requirements for own discipline (i.e. Documentation, Data Recording)
• Demonstrates understanding of impact of tasks being performed by scientists and their work.

Working Environment

• The primary working conditions associated with this position is dependent on the specific customer site and the types of services we support at the site. Conditions can vary anywhere from office areas, lab spaces, to freight elevators etc.
• Employee may be required to manage hazardous wastes in compliance with company procedures & State/Federal/Local hazardous waste regulations. Duties may include; Identifying, handling, generating, accumulating, storing, labeling.
• Must be able to work in a laboratory, controlled environments requiring personal protective equipment.
• Work with biohazards such as blood borne pathogens.
• Ensure safety, security, and the environment in all aspects of the daily activities, and any potential safety hazards are addressed and corrected immediately.
• Understand the ergonomic relationship between people, equipment, and the working environment.
• Must be able to work in a laboratory, controlled environments requiring personal protective equipment.

Other Requirements:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for more than 25% of the time.
• The person in this position needs to regularly move inside and outside the lab
• Frequently operate on instruments, objects, tools or controls, which will require regularly bending, squatting, stretching and reaching in order to complete tasks.
• Regularly move or lift 25 pounds, up to 50 pounds, of laboratory equipment and machinery.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include without limitation, the ability to observe details at close range (within a few feet of the instrument), distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus in order to perform the essential service functions of this position.
• Use of personal protective equipment in laboratory.