Lab Assistant

Job Title: Lab Assistant
Location: Highland Heights, KY
Duration: 9 Months (Temp to Hire)
Shift: Monday-Friday
 
Job Description: Summarized Purpose:
Prepares slides, monitors and records refrigerators, freezers, and water baths temperatures, retrieves/moves specimens to/from long-term storage, assists in unpacking, loads and unloads samples and analyzers, and generates daily work lists for various teams (metrology, sample entry, stability, etc.).
 
Essential Functions:

• Sorts, scans, and assigns sequence numbers to different laboratory areas. Numbers HDL tubes for lipid laboratory.
• Processes samples for testing.
• Prepares reagents and pipettes/aliquots reagents under supervision.
• Labels and stain hematology slides.
• Gathers, dumps, rinses, washes, dries and restocks glassware and consumables in the laboratory.
• Performs limited, non-complex, waived tests for review by a team member.
• Performs daily work assignments accurately and in a timely manner.

Education and Experience:

• 4-year degree in science or currently working on a science degree
• Technical positions may require a certificate
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 0 to 1 year) or equivalent combination of education, training, & experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Effective communication skills
• Good cooperative and collaborative skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to adhere to laboratory policies and standard operating procedures
• Data recording skills
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment