Anatomic Pathology Technician, Cynet Systems, West Jefferson, OH
Cynet Systems -
West Jefferson, OH,
US
Anatomic Pathology Technician
Date Posted: 2024-06-01
Job description
Job Description:
Pay Range $16hr - $21hr
Responsibilities:
Equipment/Lab:
Documentation/Compliance/Safety:
Leadership/Teamwork:
Analysis/Functional:
The Following Is Required:
Desired Qualifications:
Pay Range $16hr - $21hr
Responsibilities:
- The primary role is perform necropsy examinations of small and large laboratory animals; include gross necropsy, tissue collection, fixation, and labeling of specimens.
- Work with highly hazardous biological/toxic materials in Biological Safety Level 2 (BSL-2) and Biological Safety Level 3 (BSL-3) laboratories.
- Trim tissues in cassettes for the histopathology team.
- Contributing tthe development and validation of equipment and necropsy activities.
- Understanding and performing dilutions including mathematical calculations involved.
- Decontaminating equipment and materials.
Equipment/Lab:
- Act as lab technical point of contact.
- Laboratory cleaning and upkeep of equipment and space.
- Inventory, ordering and receipt of supplies.
- Waste management, operation of autoclaves, preparation of bleach and other decontamination solutions.
- Use proper technique toperate necessary equipment tproduce high-quality data.
- Perform routine maintenance and/or calibration of equipment as necessary. Prepare, maintain, and archive equipment logbooks.
- Use electronic databases for sample tracking and documenting necropsy examinations.
- Operate routine computer programs and perform basic data manipulation in a spreadsheet environment.
- Set up, validate, and operate laboratory equipment and software.
Documentation/Compliance/Safety:
- Read SOPs, methods, facility guidelines, etc. used in workplace promptly and adhere tthese procedures.
- Record data and perform quality control reviews in accordance with Good Laboratory Practices (GLP).
- Perform timely quality control and/or technical review of electronic and/or paper data.
- Create and maintain study files in accordance with standard operating procedures, protocol, quality requirements and client specifications.
- Prepare and submit study files and forms tQuality Control or Quality Assurance.
- Recognize when technical operations deviate from accepted practices and prepare deviation reports as needed.
- Report observations/problems clearly and concisely, recognizing and highlighting specific deviations.
- Adhere tall laboratory safety requirements.
Leadership/Teamwork:
- Train and guide less experienced staff on specific tasks.
- Serve as technical co-lead on portions of studies.
- Work independently and efficiently in a team environment.
Analysis/Functional:
- Works on assignments that are semi-routine where ability trecognize deviation from accepted practice is required.
- Exhibits sufficient technical knowledge tperform routine assignments.
- Demonstrated ability toperate basic equipment and follow standard procedures.
- Performs routine specified analysis of data.
- Verifies the accuracy, applicability, and reasonableness of project work.
- Is encouraged tmake recommendations but has limited discretion when making judgments and completing tasks.
- Conducts standard as well as non-standard tasks under close supervision and guidance of more experienced staff. Keeps supervisor informed regularly on status of work.
The Following Is Required:
- Associate degree in animal science/zoology or related biology field plus 1 years experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to obtain/maintain certification in the Biological Suitability Assessment Program (BSAP).
- Ability to obtain/maintain DoJ Security Risk Assessment (SRA) approval.
- Ability to obtain/maintain CDC approval to work with BSAT material.
- Must be willing to work in a biosafety level 2 (BSL2) and 3 (BSL3) (biocontainment) environment and able to wear appropriate respiratory protection.
- Must be willing to be immunized with FDA-licensed vaccines and Investigational New Drugs (IND) recommended for persons at risk to occupational exposure of biological agents.
- Must be willing to participate in random drug screening.
- Respond appropriately to various alarms and potential emergencies.
- Sufficiently medically fit to do work in a lab wearing appropriate respiratory equipment and perform all assigned duties.
- Ability to work night, weekend, and holiday hours.
Desired Qualifications:
- Pathology and/or clinical pathology laboratory experience.