What are the responsibilities and job description for the Laboratory Technician l position at Eurofins US Food, Feed, & Supplement Testing?
Job Description
Employee Responsibilities:
Employee Responsibilities:
- Responsible for splitting, commination, and homogenization of incoming samples in compliance with all applicable standard operating procedures and quality systems.
- Care and maintenance of equipment associated with this activity.
- Performs any duties as required by management or department not specifically detailed in this job description.
- Prepare incoming test samples by splitting, grinding with appropriate grinders, and homogenize for further testing in accordance with standard operating procedures and applicable quality control procedures.
- Clean workplace and equipment in accordance with standard operating procedures and general housekeeping requirements.
- Provide feedback to department manager for suggested improvement of procedures.
- Monitor and meet TAT requirements for sample workflow, and keep department manager informed when capacity constraints are anticipated that may delay TAT.
- Maintains assigned equipment according to standard operating procedures. Perform any and all operational qualifications prior to analysis according to standard operating procedures.
- Logs and delivers sample splits to testing departments, and as needed gets the appropriate signatures on the appropriate log.
- Responsible for logging and storing retains of the samples, as well as discarding the retains properly according to the appropriate standard operating procedure.
- Performing environmental monitoring, as needed.
- Enrich client samples with appropriate media as needed.
- Assist other technicians with weekly checklist.
