Sample Management Technician -1st Shift (12-month contract)

Essential Responsibilities: • Timely GxP-compliant receipt of reference material and/or incoming samples

• May initiate sample chain-of-custody paperwork and/or electronic records

• Provides timely notification of sample receipt to appropriate BAL/client personnel

• Generates and maintains records in a GxP compliant manner

• Manages sample receipt freezer inventory

• Collects metrics data required to monitor sample receipt processes

• Recommends process improvements

• May train new Sample Management Technicians

• May assist with disposition of samples

• May assist with internal transfer of samples from temporary freezers to permanent freezers

• Follows BAL SOPs

• May accession samples as needed

• Reviews study sample metadata to confirm consistency between the tube labels, study paperwork and electronic sample management systems (eSMS)

• Accessions samples into LIMS

• Imports electronic data into electronic sample management system (e.g. FreezerPro)

• Resolves discrepancies, with responsibility for investigating and correcting sample anomalies identified in the eSMS system

• Manage pre and post-test sample storage

• Pull/check out samples for testing

• Check in samples after testing

Minimum Preferred Qualifications: Skills • Working knowledge of GxP regulations

• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment where multiple concurrent projects must be completed in a timely manner

• Ability to take direction well and multi-task

• Acute attention to detail and excellent organizational skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Proficiency in MS Excel and Word

• Proficiency in LIMS and Quality Management software packages

Additional Responsibilities • Other duties as needed

Minimum Acceptable Qualifications: Education/Experience • High school diploma

Minimum Acceptable Qualifications: Skills • Ability to work under GxP regulations

• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment where multiple concurrent projects must be completed in a timely manner

• Ability to take direction well and multi-task

• Acute attention to detail and excellent organizational skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Ability to quickly build proficiency in MS Excel, MS Word, LIMS and Quality Management software

Preferred Credentials • Experience with shipping and receiving procedures

• Familiarity with GxP regulations in a laboratory environment

• Experience using Watson LIMS

Supervisory Responsibility • This position has no supervisory responsibilities

Supervision Received • Frequent supervision and instructions

• Infrequently exercises discretionary authority

Working Environment • Primarily laboratory environment, including use of personal protective equipment such as safety glasses, lab coats and gloves

• Occasional loading dock environment

• Occasional office environment

• Routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets

• Exposure to biological fluids with potential exposure to infectious organisms

• Potential exposure to skin and lung irritants, toxic materials, and hazardous waste

• Exposure to fluctuating temperatures on rare occasions

Physical Demands • Ability to transition between sitting, standing and walking for up to eight (8) hours per day

• Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists

• Frequent mobility needed

• Occasional crouching or stooping, with frequent bending and twisting of upper body and neck

• Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moving) objects, including laboratory samples, laboratory equipment, and laptop computer, with a maximum lift of 30 pounds

• Ability to use personal protective equipment and work effectively in freezers as cold as -80°C

• Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand, with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences

• Frequently interacts with others to obtain or relate information to diverse groups

• Requires multiple periods of intense concentration

• Performs a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence

• Ability to perform under stress and multi-task

• Regular and consistent attendance

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work • This is a full-time position

• 1st Shift Working Hours: 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday with the potential to move to 7am-3pm

• Some flexibility in hours is allowed, but the employee must be available during the “core” work hours as published in the BioAgilytix Employee Handbook

• Occasional weekend, holiday, and evening work required