Laboratory Assistant

General Accountability

Specific Responsibilities

• Sample preparation, drying, grinding, pasting, homogenizing, subsampling, filtration, SALM digestion, TCLP extracts and other extracts samples of different matrices (including but not limited to soil, water, product, manure, plant, and animal tissue, etc.);
• Manage daily sample workload to meet corporate turnaround times and hold times.
• Manage staff, equipment and other resources to maximize production, quality and efficiency;
• Communicate any sample integrity or potential turnaround time issues to client support staff.
• Responsible for the calibration, routine maintenance, troubleshooting and/or repairs of basic instruments;
• Generate work lists from LIMS software;
• Monitor and restock laboratory consumables/chemicals;
• Monitor controlled equipment;
• General laboratory clean-up and maintenance;
• Perform all required record-keeping & documentation;
• Maintain a reserve inventory of standard materials, reagents and supplies so that the processing of the anticipated sample workload is not put at risk.
• Ensure that all junior staff are trained as per ALS policies and they adhere to strict QA/QC policies. Maintain current training records for all employees working under your supervision.
• Perform all required quality control procedures; including perform peer review of data bundles, rechecks and investigating CARs;
• Use correct methods in accordance with the established standard procedures (SOP) while ensuring analytical quality; if significant deviations form procedures are required. Ensure that approval from the appropriate manager, supervisor or team lead has been obtained. Update SOP as required.
• Observe established safety regulations and comply with all ALS health and safety policies and procedures.