Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Excellent employment opportunity for a Clinical Laboratory Associate in the Ames, IA area.
- Additional Information: Shift 8-4, Hours 40hrs/week
- Prepare labels and label clinical study samples.
- Assist in collection of clinical study samples or necropsy.
- Aliquot clinical study samples. (serum, swab effluents, fecal samples, animal tissue samples).
- Maintain electronic inventory of clinical study samples.
- Accurately record all laboratory activities and techniques on data capture forms, research notebooks, and raw data notebooks as appropriate.
- Review and contribute to protocols, planning, and execution.
- Create and prepare submissions to diagnostic laboratories and to AVRC laboratories.
- Compile testing information from outside labs and AVRC labs for statistical and reporting within clinical teams
- Support clinical teams with document scanning, manual data entry and quality control of data entry.
- Receives samples, plans, and executes processing and delivery to the appropriate lab for testing.
- Ability to Plan and create a weekly schedule from multiple lists
- Maintain number lists with minimal transposition
- Initiates, executes, completes, and communicates duties and related issues
Experience:
- A.A.S. or B.S.
- Effective organization and time management skills.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Handling of veterinary laboratory specimens
- Experience with the safe and appropriate use of BSL2 organisms preferred.
- Hand eye coordination
- Aseptic technique
- Proactive and resourceful.
- Ability to work across groups and take direction from multiple scientists.
- Competent with Microsoft Office software.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills; High level of comfort/ease interacting with all levels of the organization.
- Maintains a constructive and positive attitude for working on projects and for working at Company.
- Follow Research & Development policies and procedures to maintain high quality standards and follow best practices.