Laboratory Technician III (Monday-Friday, 9am-530pm)

About the role

At Azenta, new ideas, new technologies and new ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer-focused culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and challenge the status quo with novel thinking and collaborative work relationships. All we accomplish is grounded in our core values of Customer Focus, Achievement, Accountability, Teamwork, Employee Value and Integrity.

Responsibilities

• Complete sample preparation service activities including but not limited to normalized and volumetric aliquots, DNA/RNA purification, DNA/RNA quantifications, PBMC processing, whole blood fractionation, and other client-specific procedures.
• Perform and document all activities as prescribed in the corresponding SOPs.
• Perform all functions methodically and in accordance with SOPs.
• Independently operate laboratory equipment including but not limited to pipettes, automated liquid handlers, spectrophotometers, and centrifuges.
• Assist with the calibration and maintenance of equipment.
• Process and store biological samples per established protocols.
• Properly and accurately document processes and alert management of processing deviations.
• Manifest and register samples received for lab processing.
• Edit existing SOPs.
• Assist with validation and qualification studies.
• Assist with training as requested by management.
• Assist with inventory management.
• Assist in process development for new services.
• Assist in investigations of non-conformance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 1+ year relevant experience
• Associate’s degree with 3+ year relevant experience
• High School Diploma with 7+ years relevant experience
• Experience in a regulated laboratory environment preferred
• Ability to work as a team as well as independently
• Demonstrate attention to detail
• Working knowledge of GxP requirements
• Proficient with Microsoft Word and Excel

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift 25 pounds
• Reaching, lifting, bending
• Extended periods of standing or sitting while wearing lab coat, safety glasses, and gloves

Working Conditions

• Employee will be working in an area with potentially infectious materials
• Employee will be responsible for maintaining a clean work environment and enforcing and following Universal Precautions for bloodborne pathogens when working in an area considered to be potentially contaminated

Join us and help enable life-changing discoveries by keeping critical life science systems running reliably—every day.