Medical Technologist I

If you are looking for a company where you can gain exposure to a wide variety of science and explore a multitude of career paths across the drug development spectrum, consider working at Labcorp as a **Medical Technologist in Flow Cytometry.**

**In more details, you will**:
- Perform assigned clinical laboratory testing accurately and in a timely manner.- Resolve pendings. Retrieve and check specimens against pending list. Document specimen discrepancies. Notify laboratory management when specimen discrepancies are not resolved.
- Prepare workstation and instrumentation for the assigned testing.
- Properly handle specimens and independently resolve technical specimen issues in preparation for analysis and specimen storage. Contact internal customers for clarification as needed.
- Operate instruments to perform testing in accordance with established written procedures.
- Perform routine testing and calculations as required.
- Resolve routine and non-routine assay problems.- Ensure the validity of tests results through the performance of established quality assurance and quality control procedures.- Perform experiments, as scheduled, for evaluation of new Calibrator and/or QC lots.- Summarize results of investigations and compile data for review by management.- Document quality control results. Interpret quality control results according to Westgard rules or other established departmental procedures and accurately document biases, warnings and violations of control values.
- Document corrective action for unusual occurrences (e.g. QC violations, instrument related problems).
- Analyze proficiency testing survey samples as patient specimens.- Reagents/Materials/Supplies:
- Receive, open and place in service all reagents/materials according to SOPs.
- Prepare and properly label reagent, quality control, calibrator material.
- Document implementation of new reagents/materials according to SOPs.
- Perform parallel testing, linearity’s, stability, other quality control practices needed to ensure validity of material prior to being placed into service.
- Perform inventory control of supplies and reagents as approved by management.- Result Entry (Auto-verification and manual entry).- When data is manually entered (e.g. QC, patient data) ensure peer review is performed and documented prior to release of results
- Prepare proper documentation of test results and enter into the information system
- Generate an appropriate audit trail for all activities
- Document and communicate any result reporting problems or inconsistencies to laboratory management
- Complete testing within the expected turnaround time to meet customers’ expectations.- Ensure maintenance of instruments and equipment is performed according to manufacturer and SOP requirements, and documented according to SOP.- Calibrate instruments, equipment and/or assays as required and document.
- Perform basic instrument and equipment troubleshooting.
- Perform pipette calibrations and document according to SOP.
- Notify laboratory management when an instrument or equipment does not meet specifications.
- Comply with regulatory guidelines and Covance Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) at all times.- Training- The individual successfully completes, as scheduled, competency assessment and ensures competency testing documentation is provided to management for review/retention.
- May assist in training new employees and follows-up to ensure training is understood.
- Attends, as scheduled, department, mandatory and other meetings and training, as required according to training matrices.- Work to achieve partnership with both internal customers and external clients by:
- Pulling data in a timely manner for review by QA and external clients.
- Contributing to the provision of accurate verbal or written response to internal QA and client audit findings. Coordinating, where needed, with other resources to resolve issue
- Researching and preparing a response following investigation for quality purposes.- Coordinate, where needed, with other resources to resolve issue.- Research and responds in a timely manner to internal customer inquiries regarding status of test results, retrieval of samples for testing/storage and other needs.
- Understand department metrics and goals.
- Demonstrate proficiency in applicable computer systems and software.
- Adhere to established Safety policies and Universal precaution guidelines at all times. Maintain a clean, organized and safe work environment. Minimize biohazard waste. Clean workstation and materials daily.
- Take action for the department when additional responsibilities and opportunities are presented.
- Provide laboratory management with a report of activities upon request.- Other duties as assigned:
- Test Flow Cytometry Patient samples and Quality Control Data
- Data Entry, Resulting and Release into clinical database
- Draft and review standard operating procedures (SOP
- Sophisticated instrument handling and maintenan