Medical Laboratory Scientist I

Job Title

Pay Range: $35.00hr - $40.00hr

Requirement/Must Have

• Bachelor’s degree required, degree in Chemistry or Biochemistry strongly preferred.
• Transcripts will be requested for review throughout consideration process.
• 1+ years Clinical experience (high complexity testing) preferred.
• Experience with LC-MS or ICP-MS strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Follow the laboratory’s procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analyses, reporting and maintaining records of patient test result.
• Maintain records that demonstrate that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient specimens.
• Analyze specimens using approved testing procedures.
• Review and release test results.
• Follow CLIA, HIPAA, OSHA, and safety guidelines as described in their respective guidelines.
• Follow the laboratory’s established policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within the laboratory’s established acceptable levels of performance.
• Identify problems that may adversely affect test performance or reporting of test results, correct the problems encountered or immediately notify the senior technologist or supervisor.

Skills

• Specimen handling.
• Test analyses.
• CLIA.
• HIPAA.
• OSHA.
• LC-MS.
• ICP-MS.
• Manual and automated pipettes.
• Laboratory instrumentation.

Qualification And Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry or Biochemistry.
• Clinical experience in high complexity testing.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift 1 to 10 pounds frequently.
• Ability to lift 11 to 25 pounds occasionally.
• Ability to lift 36 to 50 pounds seldom.
• Ability to stand and work at the bench for long periods of time.
• Ability to walk and stand frequently.
• Ability to use manual and automated pipettes requiring significant manual dexterity.