Laboratory Scientist, Metrology

LMSI, LLC dba Lighthouse Lab Services • Carrollton, TX

10d • $26 - $28 • Onsite

About The Position

Lighthouse Lab Services is hiring a Laboratory Scientist to join its Metrology Specialists team. The team creates reagent components—including standards, controls, and proficiency testing materials—for client laboratories to use in testing patient samples. The work includes calibrating, testing, and analyzing materials to verify precision, performance, and accuracy. This position is based at the company’s Carrollton, Texas headquarters and is onsite Monday through Friday during normal business hours.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Biology, Medical Laboratory Sciences, or another closely related scientific discipline.
• At least 2 years of experience within a clinical laboratory.
• Precision pipetting skills.

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience creating reagents for toxicology testing is preferred but not required.
• Medical Technologist certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Create LCMS validation materials, including sample comparison, matrix effects, and interference studies.
• Create stocks, calibrators, quality controls, and internal standards for LCMS.
• Prepare specialty and custom recipes and mixes for calibrators, quality controls, internal standards, and stocks.
• Manufacture validation materials and controls for molecular and infectious disease panels.
• Maintain laboratory quality documents.
• Perform lot-to-lot verification on new reagent lots and create a certificate of analysis for each lot of controls.
• Create custom ALT proficiency-testing samples.
• Maintain and calibrate equipment.
• Extract RNA and DNA using automated methods.
• Order laboratory supplies and standards, manage standards shipments, and keep records of standards and assay materials.
• Collaborate with Quality and DA/DR teams to ensure standards pass requirements.
• Track stock-material lots.
• Update internal recipes, certificates of analysis, and product inserts.
• File recipes, quality documents, packing slips, certificates of analysis, and records for standards and assay materials.
• Ship standards and assays.
• Participate in instructing and training others.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental benefits starting on Day 1.
• 15 days of personal paid time off.
• 10 paid holidays.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching: 100% match on contributions up to 3% of annual salary, then 50% match on the next 2% of contributions, for up to a 4% match.
• Company-paid life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
• Paid volunteer time off.
• Partially paid medical leave and paid parental leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level