Lab Tech / Assistant I

Our client develops, manufactures, and supplies a wide array of innovative medical diagnostic products, services, tests, platforms, and technologies.
Job Summary:
Maintains laboratory instruments and equipment on a daily, monthly, and quarterly basis. Prepares reagents and monitors instruments for bulk reagent levels. Orders and stocks office and laboratory supplies and equipment. Performs onsite servicing and technical support of various lab equipment including Benchmark autostainers. Manages incoming/outgoing stained slide and/or reagent shipments. May support several different functional lab spaces and groups.
Responsibilities:

• Performs daily, monthly and quarterly instrument and equipment maintenance and cleaning tasks.
• Monitors and prepares bulk reagents daily.
• Troubleshoots minor equipment malfunctions by performing operational tests.
• Monitors and maintains usage logs for all equipment and instruments.
• Monitors, schedules and delivers portable instruments for calibration and maintains necessary documentation.
• Monitors and completes routine maintenance on Thermal equipment (refrigerators, freezers, incubators, etc.).
• Coordinates equipment preventative maintenance, repairs and validations with third party vendors.
• Prepares and schedules incoming and outgoing stained slide and/or reagent shipments.
• Maintains stock room and monitor lab supply inventory.
• May perform staining runs for new BenchMark instrument installations.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications:

• H.S. Diploma or GED required
• Some college experience preferred
• 2 years of relevant lab experience required 
• Some laboratory and knowledge of general laboratory practices preferred