Component Specialist Trainee

Schedule

Schedule: 7-On/7-Off; A week: 2:30 PM – 1:00 AM. Training Schedule: Tuesday – Friday, 7:00 AM – 5:30 PM (40 hrs/wk) for 8‑12 weeks.

About ARUP

ARUP Laboratories is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and an enterprise of the University of Utah and its Department of Pathology. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah. ARUP proudly hires top talent to create a work environment of diversity, professional growth and continuous development. Our workforce is committed to the important service we provide to over one million patients each month. We always strive for excellence and have a strong desire to have involvement with the advances in medicine and the role laboratory services plays within each patient’s life. We never forget that there is a patient behind every specimen we receive. We are looking for individuals who want to contribute to ARUP's culture of accountability, integrity, service, and excellence. Consider joining our dynamic team.

Primary Purpose

Provides services of both a technical and non‑technical nature in the Blood service areas. Works under the direction of a Lead Component Specialist and/or Laboratory Supervisor.

Responsibilities

• Manufacturing and processing of blood products
• Data handling and input
• Sample handling and shipping
• Performing testing on blood products
• Answering the telephone
• Supply maintenance
• Performance and documentation of quality control and equipment maintenance
• Processes units of whole blood into leukocyte reduced red blood cells and plasma according to established departmental procedures
• Determines which platelets qualify for division and then divides product according to established departmental procedures
• Concurrently and accurately enters data into the LIS
• Prepares blood products for Quality Control Testing
• Filters blood for WBC removal
• Responds to temperature alarms in a timely fashion and documents corrective action
• Maintains work area; cleans bench tops and equipment after each spill, and daily at the end of the work shift as required
• Documents as required
• Performs daily reviews of maintenance and Quality Control forms and ensures that all errors are corrected
• Stocks and maintains supplies; notes receipt date on supplies and rotates supplies to ensure that the oldest stock is used first
• Inspects, packs and ships various products and samples to outlying facilities as defined in procedures
• Samples apheresis platelet units for bacterial detection
• Performs pathogen reduction on qualified platelet units
• Performs residual white blood cell counts on platelet units using moderate complexity testing