Technologist, Trainee

ARUP Laboratories•Salt Lake City, UT

About The Position

The Technologist Trainee is a training position that prepares the employee to work independently as a limited-license scientist (Technologist) and to pursue ASCP certification within five years. The trainee works under the supervision of a Medical Laboratory Scientist, Certified Technologist, or Technologist, providing technical and non-technical laboratory services in the Automated Core Laboratory. The position performs waived, automated, and selected moderate- and high-complexity analytic processes; operates and maintains laboratory instruments; processes specimens and data; and completes quality-control, documentation, proficiency-testing, and other laboratory tasks. Training is provided on new procedures to a prescribed competency level. The regular schedule is 7-On/7-Off, B week, from 2:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Training is approximately six weeks on a flexible daytime schedule, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ARUP Laboratories is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and an enterprise of the University of Utah and its Department of Pathology, based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in chemical or biological sciences.
Meet the specified coursework requirements for the applicable laboratory discipline: 23 semester credit hours of science courses, 3 semester credit hours of physics, math, or statistics, and 16 semester credit hours in the relevant discipline.
Provide education and credential documentation for evaluation, which may include college and university transcripts, degrees conferred, an expected-graduation letter if enrolled in the final semester, and relevant certifications.
Comply with ARUP policies and procedures.
Use personal protective equipment in the biohazard laboratory environment in accordance with CDC and OSHA regulations and company policies.
Meet the physical requirements, including occasional stooping, reaching, and movement between work sites, fine motor tasks, visual acuity and color discrimination, and sedentary exertion up to 10 pounds.

Responsibilities

Perform waived and automated qualitative, semi-quantitative, or quantitative analytic processes.
Oversee calibration on self-calibrating instruments and perform selected calibration processes.
Perform selected moderate- and high-complexity analytic processes, both automated and non-automated.
Operate selected laboratory instruments, ensure equipment functions properly, perform minor troubleshooting and routine maintenance under direction, and maintain records and documentation.
Perform and document quality control and equipment maintenance within predetermined parameters.
Accurately log in and process specimens according to departmental procedures.
Follow specimen collection, handling, and transport procedures; resolve sample-handling problems or refer them to designated Technologists or the Technical Supervisor.
Process data and transcribe it into the laboratory computer system; results are validated by qualified personnel.
Train on new procedures to the prescribed level of competency.
Meet output measures defined by group procedures and assist in other areas of defined competency when assigned work is complete.
Refer requests for special and unusual tests to the Technical Supervisor or Group Manager.
Assist with data collection for quality-assurance indicators.
Assist with validation of equipment and test methods.
Assist with creating and reviewing standard operating procedures.
Perform internal and external proficiency testing as defined.
Stock and maintain reagents and supplies appropriately.
Assist in training Technicians as assigned.
Perform other duties as assigned.