Lab Assistant

Medical Diagnostic Laboratories • Hamilton Township, NJ

10d

About The Position

Medical Diagnostic Laboratories (MDL) is a CLIA-certified clinical laboratory with multiple state licenses, specializing in automated DNA-based molecular analysis of chronic and infectious illnesses. The laboratory performs PCR testing and offers a broad menu of infectious disease tests. Its research areas include gynecology, infectious diseases, infectious arthritis, tick-borne diseases, mycology, and chronic fatigue syndrome.

The Lab Assistant supports specimen accessioning and processing, documentation, laboratory preparation and maintenance, and clerical duties. The role also assists laboratory staff with daily activities and additional assigned duties, follows safety and customer privacy requirements, and maintains accuracy and quality in all work.

Requirements

• Clinical Laboratory Accessioner training.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Unpack specimen deliveries and compare courier and field service technician specimens with route sheets.
• Verify required information on test requisition forms and match it against collection vial information.
• Identify and follow procedures for missing or discrepant information.
• Use dMDL and MDL test codes and panels appropriately.
• Collate paperwork accompanying specimens, including requisitions, checks, credit card forms, insurance card copies, and prescriptions.
• Accession specimens including blood, urine, swabs, CSF, synovial fluid, ticks, and biopsies.
• Photograph specimen containers for quality-control purposes.
• Print and affix labels to specimens, requisitions, and accompanying documentation.
• Sort paperwork for scanning and scan documentation.
• Sort samples in ascending order and set up samples according to an XG sheet.
• Locate samples requested by the clinical laboratory, quality control, or the SRC department.
• Complete QC/SRC paperwork and archive and file paperwork.
• Use a Sample Scan 96 and print labels for plates, preparing plates to be scanned.
• Take clinical laboratory temperatures, record data, and organize documentation.
• Organize and maintain laboratory storage, samples, and specimens.
• Prepare equipment and workspaces; sanitize and sterilize equipment and workspaces.
• Perform routine preventive equipment maintenance and thermometer calibrations; record data and results and report results and variations to a supervisor.
• Prepare and aliquot reagents, make master mix, pour microbiology plates, and perform sterility and growth promotion testing.
• Perform clerical and administrative duties as needed.
• Assist laboratory staff with daily activities and additional delegated duties; perform other similar or related duties as required or assigned.
• Handle materials safely and follow health and safety regulations when handling laboratory specimens.
• Maintain customer privacy, participate as a team member, and remain accountable for assigned work.
• Communicate information in a supportive, timely, and understandable manner; proactively diagnose and resolve problems.
• Maintain productive work habits and accuracy and quality in all activities.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Dependent care flexible spending account
• Voluntary accident, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and supplemental short-term disability policies
• Legal plan and identity theft protection
• 401(k) plan
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Business casual environment
• Credit union

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed