Job Description:
Responsibilities:
Technical: - Work with highly hazardous biological/toxic materials in Biological Safety Level 2 (BSL-2) and Biological Safety Level 3 (BSL-3) laboratories.
- Conducting assays on samples collected from in vivo pathogenicity/efficacy/toxicity studies as well as human clinical samples.
- Some assays include: bacterial enumeration, viral assays, ELISA, PCR, nucleic acid isolation, and flow cytometry.
- Perform routine blood and tissue processing.
- Prepare reagents.
- Contributing the development and validation of equipment and biological assays.
- Understanding and performing dilutions including mathematical calculations involved.
- Decontaminating equipment and materials.
- Maintaining mammalian, viral, and bacterial cell cultures.
- Equipment/lab:
- Act as lab technical point of contact.
- Laboratory cleaning and upkeep.
- Supply inventory, ordering and receipt.
- Waste management, operation of autoclaves, preparation of bleach and other decontamination solutions.
- Use proper technique tolerate necessary equipment produced high quality data.
- Perform routine maintenance and/or calibration of equipment as necessary.
- Prepare, maintain, and archive equipment logbooks.
- Use electronic databases for sample tracking.
- Operate routine computer programs and perform basic data manipulation in a spreadsheet environment.
- Set up, validate, and operate laboratory equipment and software.
Documentation: - Read SOPs, methods, facility guidelines, etc. used in workplace in a timely manner and adhere these procedures.
- Perform timely quality control and/or technical review of electronic and/or paper data.
- Create and maintain study files in accordance with standard operating procedures, protocol, quality requirements and client specifications.
- Prepare and submit study files and forms tQuality Control or Quality Assurance.
- Recognize when technical operations deviate from accepted practices and prepare deviation reports as needed.
- Report observations/problems clearly and concisely, recognizing and highlighting specific deviations.
- Adhere tall laboratory safety requirements.
Teamwork: - Train and guide less experienced staff on specific tasks.
- Serve as technical co-lead on portions of studies.
- Work independently and efficiently in a team environment.
Functional Analysis: - Works on assignments that are semi-routine in nature where ability recognize deviation from accepted practice is required.
- Exhibits sufficient technical knowledge perform routine assignments.
- Demonstrated ability tolerate basic equipment and follow standard procedures.
- Performs routine specified analysis of data.
- Verifies the accuracy, applicability, and reasonableness of project work.
- Is encouraged make recommendations but has limited discretion when making judgments and completing tasks.
- Conducts standard as well as non-standard tasks under close supervision and guidance of more experienced staff.
- Keeps supervisor informed regularly on status of work.
Required: - Associate degree in microbiology/molecular biology plus 1 years experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to obtain/maintain certification in the Biological Suitability Assessment Program (BSAP).
- Ability to obtain/maintain DOJ Security Risk Assessment (SRA) approval.
- Ability to obtain/maintain CDC approval work with BSAT material.
- Must be willing to work in a biosafety level 2 (BSL2) and 3 (BSL3) (biocontainment) environment and able to wear appropriate respiratory protection.
- Respond appropriately various alarms and potential emergency situations.
- Sufficiently medically fit to work in a lab wearing appropriate respiratory equipment and perform all assigned duties.
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Last updated on Nov 17, 2023