Specimen processing technician (2nd shift)
VitalHires · Des Plaines, IL · 3 wk ago
Manufacturing$21–$23/hrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must remove boilerplate like EEO, equal-opportunity, scam warning, etc. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Key content:
- Role description: "The Specimen Processing Technician is responsible for accurately aliquoting specimens, maintaining laboratory safety, and ensuring compliance with SOPs and HIPAA standards. They must also perform documentation, maintain equipment, and support team goals within a fast-paced forensic toxicology environment."
- Description: "Forensic toxicology testing is an exciting and expanding field. USDTL is a great company for professional experience and growth. We provide a work environment that promotes learning basic laboratory practices in a production-oriented environment with positive reinforcement of teamwork, communication, and professionalism. Joining our team is making a commitment to our mission of protecting and enriching lives. USDTL is a global leader in forensic toxicology testing of drug and alcohol exposed newborns and mothers as well as other at-risk populations. We service hospitals, child protection agencies, the Department of Defense, legal services, businesses, and more. USDTL prides itself on cutting edge research and testing. We are the laboratory of choice for umbilical cord testing, fingernail/hair testing, and PEth testing. Providing accurate results that lead to early intervention has significant benefits for children, families, and communities. We seek passionate employees who share our dedication to our mission to protect and enrich lives and who challenge themselves each day to help our teams succeed in achieving these goals in a dynamic fast-paced environment."
- Then bullet-like responsibilities: "The Specimen Processing Technician will be required to Locate, read, and accurately follow: SOP’s and laboratory safety related to designated job function module(s) in either Initial Aliquoting or Confirmation Aliquoting. Compliance with HIPAA and personal health information standards and SOP’s. Maintain the laboratory and/or work area as a clean, organized, safe environment. Identify and troubleshoot problems/errors, perform corrective actions, notify supervisors and document the event. Understand and follow proper protocol, contact appropriate staff, and perform follow-up for resolving problem specimens and/or forms. Following in-house training, must demonstrate complete competency in all aspects of job function module under supervision of Team Lead and/or Supervisor. Perform all associated computer and worksheet documentation and make appropriate corrective actions when necessary. Complete activities to support job module team goals. Complete initial competency and maintain all necessary competencies associated with appropriate Aliquoting module including pipette competencies. Accurately complete Chain of Custody Worksheets. Be Proficient in sample preparation for downstream testing processes. Know and utilize good laboratory practices for all work. Pipette and weigh aliquots accurately for matrix and test requirements; record appropriate information on worksheets. MaintainSampleIntegrity: Ensure that aliquots are appropriately labeled and correctly match original specimen containers. Keep lab apparatus and equipment clean to avoid cross-contamination. Store samples and aliquots appropriately for matrix and test requirements. Prepare blind QC, sample spikes, and negative pool samples. Demonstrate proficiency in general laboratory processes such as performing dilutions, use of volumetric flasks, decanting, centrifugation, sonication, etc. as well as cleaning of laboratory equipment, glassware, benches, etc. Not authorized to perform higher complexity analytical test processes and certify test results unless additional qualification and training requirements are met."
- Schedule: "Schedule will be Monday through Friday 1pm to 9:30pm"
- Requirements: "Two or more years relevant lab experience or Associate, Medical Technology, or Bachelor degree in Science. Alternatively, a Specimen Accessioning Technician II with one year of experience in role meeting proficiency, competency and professionalism standards. Preferred Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Chemistry, Forensic Science, or like field."
- Benefits: "We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage; life and disability insurance; a 401(k) plan with company contributions; and tuition reimbursement."
- Also later: "Benefits Tuition reimbursementLife insuranceMedical coverageDisability insuranceVision coverageDental coverage401(k) plan" (duplicate). We'll combine.
- Pay: "Salary $21 - $23/hr"
- Location: "Des Plaines, Illinois" maybe not needed as a section; could be part of About the role? Not required.
- Employment type: Full Time, Work arrangement On Site, Experience 2-5 yrs. Could be included in Requirements or About.
We need sections: About the role (maybe a paragraph summarizing role and company), Responsibilities (list), Requirements (list), Qualifications (maybe overlapping with Requirements; but we can combine? The instruction says use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We should include only those with real content. We have content for About the role (description of role and company), Responsibilities (the long list), Requirements (experience/education), Qualifications (maybe preferred degree?), Skills (maybe list of skills like pipetting, documentation, etc.), Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We must not invent filler. Must not include sections with placeholder like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content.
We need to decide what goes where.
About the role: Could be the initial paragraph describing role and company mission.
Responsibilities: The bullet list of duties (the long list after "The Specimen Processing Technician will be required to").
Requirements: The "Two or more years relevant lab experience..." plus maybe "Preferred Bachelor’s degree..." could be Qualifications.
Qualifications: Could be the preferred degree.
Skills: Could list specific skills: pipetting, weighing aliquots, documentation, troubleshooting, etc. But we must not invent; we can extract from responsibilities.
But we must be careful not to duplicate too much. However, we can split.
Let's extract:
About the role: Combine first paragraph and description about company.
Paragraph 1: "The Specimen Processing Technician is responsible for accurately aliquoting specimens, maintaining laboratory safety, and ensuring compliance with SOPs and HIPAA standards. They must also perform documentation, maintain equipment, and support team goals within a fast-paced forensic toxicology environment."
Then description: "Forensic toxicology testing is an exciting and expanding field. USDTL is a great company for professional experience and growth. We provide a work environment that promotes learning basic laboratory practices in a production-oriented environment with positive reinforcement of teamwork, communication, and professionalism. Joining our team is making a commitment to our mission of protecting and enriching lives. USDTL is a global leader in forensic toxicology testing of drug and alcohol exposed newborns and mothers as well as other at-risk populations. We service hospitals, child protection agencies, the Department of Defense, legal services, businesses, and more. USDTL prides itself on cutting edge research and testing. We are the laboratory of choice for umbilical cord testing, fingernail/hair testing, and PEth testing. Providing accurate results that lead to early intervention has significant benefits for children, families, and communities. We seek passionate employees who share our dedication to our mission to protect and enrich lives and who challenge themselves each day to help our teams succeed in achieving these goals in a dynamic fast-paced environment."
We can combine into About the role.
Responsibilities: The list after "The Specimen Processing Technician will be required to". We'll break into bullet items.
Let's list each duty:
- Locate, read, and accurately follow SOP’s and laboratory safety related to designated job function module(s) in either Initial Aliquoting or Confirmation Aliquoting.
- Compliance with HIPAA and personal health information standards and SOP’s.
- Maintain the laboratory and/or work area as a clean, organized, safe environment.
- Identify and troubleshoot problems/errors, perform corrective actions, notify supervisors and document the event.
- Understand and follow proper protocol, contact appropriate staff, and perform follow-up for resolving problem specimens and/or forms.
- Following in-house training, must demonstrate complete competency in all aspects of job function module under supervision of Team Lead and/or Supervisor.
- Perform all associated computer and worksheet documentation and make appropriate corrective actions when necessary.
- Complete activities to support job module team goals.
- Complete initial competency and maintain all necessary competencies associated with appropriate Aliquoting module including pipette competencies.
- Accurately complete Chain of Custody Worksheets.
- Be Proficient in sample preparation for downstream testing processes.
- Know and utilize good laboratory practices for all work.
- Pipette and weigh aliquots accurately for matrix and test requirements; record appropriate information on worksheets.
- Maintain Sample Integrity: Ensure that aliquots are appropriately labeled and correctly match original specimen containers.
- Keep lab apparatus and equipment clean to avoid cross-contamination.
- Store samples and aliquots appropriately for matrix and test requirements.
- Prepare blind QC, sample spikes, and negative pool samples.
- Demonstrate proficiency in general laboratory processes such as performing dilutions, use of volumetric flasks, decanting, centrifugation, sonication, etc. as well as cleaning of laboratory equipment, glassware, benches, etc.
- Not authorized to perform higher complexity analytical test processes and certify test results unless additional qualification and training requirements are met.
We can put these as
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Requirements: "Two or more years relevant lab experience or Associate, Medical Technology, or Bachelor degree in Science. Alternatively, a Specimen Accessioning Technician II with one year of experience in role meeting proficiency, competency and professionalism standards."
We could also include "Preferred Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Chemistry, Forensic Science, or like field." but that could be Qualifications.
Qualifications: "Preferred Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Chemistry, Forensic Science, or like field."
Skills: Could list skills like: pipetting, weighing aliquots, documentation, troubleshooting, SOP compliance, HIPAA, equipment maintenance, chain of custody, QC preparation, general lab techniques (dilutions, volumetric flasks, decanting, centrifugation, sonication), cleaning, etc. But we must not invent; we can extract from responsibilities.
We'll create a Skills section with bullet list of skills derived.
Benefits: "We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage; life and disability insurance; a 401(k) plan with company contributions; and tuition reimbursement."
Also duplicate list: "Tuition reimbursement Life insurance Medical coverage Disability insurance Vision coverage Dental coverage 401(k) plan". We'll combine.
Pay: "Salary $21 - $23/hr"
Schedule: "Schedule will be Monday through Friday 1pm to 9:30pm"
We also have location and employment type; could be included in About the role or maybe not needed. The instruction says include section only when posting has real specific content. We have location and employment type but no dedicated heading for them; we could embed in About the role as a sentence.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, everify, drug free workplace, etc. Remove those lines.
Now produce HTML fragment: use
for each section heading, then content:
for prose,
- for lists.
We must not include or . Just the fragment.
Let's craft.
Section About the role:
About the role
then acontaining combined paragraphs. We need to ensure we don't repeat job title. It's fine. Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
- with each duty.
Requirements:
Requirements
- maybe two items.
Qualifications:
Qualifications
or
- . We'll use
. Skills:
Skills
- list.
Benefits:
Benefits
- list.
Pay:
Pay
. Schedule:
Schedule
. Make
- for lists.
We must not include or . Just the fragment.
Let's craft.
Section About the role: