Laboratory Assistant

American Red Cross • Philadelphia, PA

12d • Onsite

About The Position

Joining The American Red Cross is like nothing else – it’s as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world’s largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better. When you choose to be a force for good, you’ll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life’s work with an ongoing mission that’s bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you’re cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work. Where Your Career is a Force for Good!

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent and 2 years of laboratory experience required or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• You must be able to stand for long periods of time, repeat the same movements, and use your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• This job requires the ability to hear and speak clearly.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 15 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
• The employee must be able to react quickly using hands, fingers, or feet.
• This job may require the employee to be able to bend, stretch, twist, or reach out.
• This position will require the ability to use the stomach and lower back muscles to support the body for long periods of time and the ability to keep or regain the body’s balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
• The employee must be able to frequently use one or two hands to grasp, move or assemble objects.
• The employee must have the ability to work in a small cubicle and have the ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period of time.

Nice To Haves

• Associate degree (AS) or higher preferred.
• Computer experience and familiarity with office automation (e.g. MS Word) desired.

Responsibilities

• Document telephone messages and IRL customer orders for special blood products.
• Coordinate and transport of blood samples (as applicable).
• Maintain inventories for IRL reagents, supplies, equipment, and products.
• Data entry.
• Manufacture components (as applicable).
• Perform all duties and responsibilities in compliance with standard operating procedures, Safety Quality Identity Potency Purity (SQUIPP), regulations outlined in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Clinical Laboratory Information Act (CLIA) and other applicable Federal, state and local regulations.
• Receive customer calls, including orders for antigen negative blood products
• Operate, maintain, and may perform quality control checks on laboratory equipment.
• Perform receiving, inspection, and storage of IRL supplies and reagents.
• May perform manufacturing duties associated with special blood products, if applicable.
• May perform donor product inventory management.
• May perform labeling and verification of blood products.
• Maintain accurate, legible, and complete records.
• May perform duties associated with receipt, coordination, shipment, and transport of patient and donor blood samples.
• May monitor temperatures of blood products and donor/patient samples.
• Adhere to procedures and good manufacturing practices (GMP).

Benefits

• Medical, Dental Vision plans
• Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
• PTO: Starting at 15 days a year; based on type of job and tenure
• Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays
• 401K with up to 6% match
• Paid Family Leave
• Employee Assistance
• Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
• Service Awards and recognition

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED