Laboratory Technician

Essential Responsibilities

• Responsible for the routine maintenance of laboratory equipment including performance checks, preventative maintenance, and logbook completion and maintenance, ensuring calibrations are performed as scheduled and documented in logbooks and electronic systems
• Support all equipment onboarding needs for the labs including, but not limited to filling out new equipment forms, managing vendor and internal customer implementation, coordinating, and scheduling any new equipment minor repairs, setting up future maintenance plans, and calibration orcertification needs
• Ability to learn QCBD to process work orders for calibrations, PM’s and other equipment maintenance tracking processes
• Work with vendors to facilitate instrument installation, maintenance, and performance monitoring
• Assist with troubleshooting laboratory equipment and/or performing minor repairs
• May assist with developing and reviewing equipment SOPs and to ensure adherence to GLP, GMP, GCP
• Review calibration records and logbooks and initiate Quality Events as necessary
• Assist in responses to facility and client audits as they relate to laboratory operations
• May assist ordering laboratory and general supplies for Operations as well as ordering and replacing consumable laboratory equipment such as clocks and timers
• May assist with materials management (general laboratory supply stock) for the laboratories, including hazardous waste and biological waste disposal
• Support the scientific staff by ensuring all ancillary laboratory processes are efficient
• Recommend and implement ideas to improve laboratory efficiency or safety
• Assist in ensuring environmental health and safety in all laboratories

Additional Responsibilities

• Other duties as needed

Minimum Preferred Qualifications: Education/Experience

• Associate degree with operations experience in an analytical, biology, biochemistry or microbiology laboratory is required
• No less than two (2) years of experience managing equipment/calibration records preferred
• Experience in large molecule pharmaceutical research and development in a regulatory environment and working with biohazardous material, blood borne pathogens and chemical hygiene plans, preferred

Minimum Preferred Qualifications: Skills

• Ability to follow written and verbal instructions accurately
• Well organized with ability to handle multiple responsibilities simultaneously; ability to work effectively to meet deadlines
• Computer skills, including Microsoft Office
• Excellent oral and written communication skills 

Supervisory Responsibility

• This position has no supervisory responsibility

Supervision Received

• Frequent supervision and instructions
• Infrequently exercises discretionary authority

Working Environment

• Primarily office
• Primarily laboratory/clinical environment
• Exposure to biological fluids with potential exposure to infectious organisms
• Routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets
• Personal protective equipment required, such as protective eyewear, garments, and gloves
• Exposure to fluctuating temperatures on rare occasions

Physical Demands

• Ability to work in an upright and/or stationary position for up to eight (8) hours per day
• Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists to operate office and lab equipment
• Frequent mobility needed
• Occasional crouching, stooping, with frequent bending and twisting of upper body and neck
• Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moving) objects, including office equipment, lab equipment, and laptop computer, with a maximum lift of 40 pounds
• Ability to access and use a variety of computer software
• Frequently interacts with others to obtain or relate information to diverse groups
• Performs a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence
• Ability to perform under stress and multi-task
• Regular and consistent attendance

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

• This is a full-time, on-site position
• Some flexibility in hours is allowed, but the employee must be available during the “core” work hours as published in the BioAgilytix Employee Handbook
• Occasional weekend, holiday, and evening work required