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Entry Level Specimen Processor

Actalent · St Paul, MN · 1 mo ago
On-siteHealthcare$19.52/hrContract
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for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, etc. Preserve all substantive info. Include sections only when posting has real specific content. We need to parse the job description. Key sections: - About the role: description of job: "As a Entry Level Specimen Processor you will not be directly involved in testing but will be responsible for receiving incoming samples, logging them into the computer system, and preparing them for laboratory analysis. Post-analytical duties include managing sample storage and disposal. This position is an excellent opportunity for those looking to start or grow a career in a laboratory setting." - Responsibilities: bullet list of duties: "Meet couriers to receive samples from nationwide and international locations and initiate the tracking process. Verify the arrival of all samples, inspect for damage, dispose of packaging, and prepare samples for entry. Operate multiple computer software systems, remembering which apply to different samples. Ensure sample names match requisitions. Handle various sample types, primarily urine, with some blood, serum, plasma, and body fluids. Create labels and label samples after system entry. Occasionally aliquot samples, centrifuge, or freeze them for stabilization. Manage workflow and maintenance of samples in walk-in refrigerators and freezers after specified periods." - Requirements / Qualifications / Skills: There's "Essential Skills": High School Diploma, Intermediate skills in computer usage, typing, and 10-key operations. Capability to work in a fast-paced production environment. - Additional Skills & Qualifications: No previous lab experience required; open to candidates from various backgrounds such as banking, serving, and customer service. Opportunity for career growth within the lab. Tuition reimbursement for qualifying degrees through a partnership with Arizona State University. - Work Environment: description: "Work in a fast-paced, production-type environment as a specimen accessioner, playing a vital role in medical laboratory science. The team manages between 5,000 to 11,000 samples daily. On-the-job training is provided. This role includes opportunities for career progression and offers benefits such as vacation pay and holidays. Positions available on 2nd shift, 5 pm-1:30 am, Tuesday-Saturday." - Job Type & Location: Contract position based out of Saint Paul, MN. - Pay And Benefits: Pay range $19.52 - $19.52/hr (actually same number). Then later duplicate with $19.53 - $19.53/hr. There's inconsistency; we need to preserve all substantive info. Both appear; maybe it's a copy-paste error. We should include both? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we should include both pay ranges as they appear. Could combine? But they are slightly different: $19.52 vs $19.53. We could list both as separate statements. However we should avoid duplication? The instruction says remove duplicated lines. The duplicated lines appear later: "Job Type & Location This is a Contract position based out of Saint Paul, MN. Pay And Benefits ..." repeated. So we should remove duplicate sections. Keep one instance. Thus we need to include Pay section with the pay range(s). Since there are two slightly different numbers, maybe we should include both as they appear in the text (first then later). But they are duplicated lines? Actually the first Pay And Benefits block appears, then later after Workplace Type etc, there is another identical block (except the pay range changed slightly). So it's not identical; it's a variation. We should keep both? The instruction: remove duplicated lines. These lines are not exactly duplicated because the numbers differ. So we keep both. But we need to decide how to format Pay section: maybe a

containing both statements. - Benefits: list of benefits: Medical, dental & vision; Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital; 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available; Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents); Short and long-term disability; Health Spending Account (HSA); Transportation benefits; Employee Assistance Program; Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave). Also earlier mentions "offers benefits such as vacation pay and holidays." We'll include the list. - Schedule: The posting mentions "Positions available on 2nd shift, 5 pm-1:30 am, Tuesday-Saturday." Also maybe shift info. So we can create a Schedule section with that. - About the role: we already have. - Qualifications: maybe combine Essential Skills and Additional Skills & Qualifications into Qualifications or Skills sections. The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to decide which headings to use based on content. We have: - About the role: yes. - Responsibilities: yes. - Requirements: maybe we can put "High School Diploma" etc as Requirements. - Qualifications: maybe "No previous lab experience required; open to candidates from various backgrounds such as banking, serving, and customer service. Opportunity for career growth within the lab. Tuition reimbursement for qualifying degrees through a partnership with Arizona State University." - Skills: maybe "Intermediate skills in computer usage, typing, and 10-key operations. Capability to work in a fast-paced production environment." But that overlaps with Requirements. Could combine. Better to follow typical structure: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (education/experience), Skills (technical/soft), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Qualifications maybe not needed if we have Requirements and Skills. But we must only include sections when posting has real specific content. We have content for each. Let's extract: About the role: paragraph as above. Responsibilities: bullet list. Requirements: High School Diploma. Skills: Intermediate skills in computer usage, typing, and 10-key operations. Capability to work in a fast-paced production environment. Qualifications: No previous lab experience required; open to candidates from various backgrounds such as banking, serving, and customer service. Opportunity for career growth within the lab. Tuition reimbursement for qualifying degrees through a partnership with Arizona State University. Benefits: list as above. Pay: two statements: "The pay range for this position is $19.52 - $19.52/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: ..." and then second: "The pay range for this position is $19.53 - $19.53/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: ..." The benefits list repeats; we should not duplicate benefits list. We'll include pay statements and then benefits list once. Schedule: "Positions available on 2nd shift, 5 pm-1:30 am, Tuesday-Saturday." Also mention Work Environment: "Work in a fast-paced, production-type environment as a specimen accessioner, playing a vital role in medical laboratory science. The team manages between 5,000 to 11,000 samples daily. On-the-job training is provided. This role includes opportunities for career progression and offers benefits such as vacation pay and holidays." This could be part of About the role or Work Environment but we don't have a heading for Work Environment; we could incorporate into About the role or maybe into Responsibilities? Better to add a section "Work Environment" but not in allowed headings list. The allowed headings list includes About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we should not add extra headings. We can incorporate that info into About the role or Responsibilities. Probably About the role can include that description. Thus final HTML:

About the role

As a Entry Level Specimen Processor you will not be directly involved in testing but will be responsible for receiving incoming samples, logging them into the computer system, and preparing them for laboratory analysis. Post-analytical duties include managing sample storage and disposal. This position is an excellent opportunity for those looking to start or grow a career in a laboratory setting. Work in a fast-paced, production-type environment as a specimen accessioner, playing a vital role in medical laboratory science. The team manages between 5,000 to 11,000 samples daily. On-the-job training is provided. This role includes opportunities for career progression and offers benefits such as vacation pay and holidays.

Responsibilities

  • Meet couriers to receive samples from nationwide and international locations and initiate the tracking process.
  • Verify the arrival of all samples, inspect for damage, dispose of packaging, and prepare samples for entry.
  • Operate multiple computer software systems, remembering which apply to different samples.
  • Ensure sample names match requisitions.
  • Handle various sample types, primarily urine, with some blood, serum, plasma, and body fluids.
  • Create labels and label samples after system entry.
  • Occasionally aliquot samples, centrifuge, or freeze them for stabilization.
  • Manage workflow and maintenance of samples in walk-in refrigerators and freezers after specified periods.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma

Skills

  • Intermediate skills in computer usage, typing, and 10-key operations.
  • Capability to work in a fast-paced production environment.

Qualifications

  • No previous lab experience required; open to candidates from various backgrounds such as banking, serving, and customer service.
  • Opportunity for career growth within the lab.
  • Tuition reimbursement for qualifying degrees through a partnership with Arizona State University.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental & vision
  • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
  • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
  • Short and long-term disability
  • Health Spending Account (HSA)
  • Transportation benefits
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Pay

The pay range for this position is $19.52 - $19.52/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: [see Benefits section].

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