Lab Support Specialist

Title-Lab Support Specialist

Location- One MedImmune Way, Gaithersburg, MD, 20878 onsite

4+ months contract role.

Job Description

• Executes day-to-day lab operations & support objectives at customer facilities, following a varied set of procedures, focused on minimizing laboratory workflow interruptions. Problems and issues are typically less concrete and frequently changing, and are solved by applying experience from comparable situations in the past and/or selecting solutions within known alternatives. Tasks include end-to-end management of gas cylinders and liquid tanks, dry ice, and instrument buffers, solvents and liquid nitrogen, and supporting quality control workflows by executing sampling. Collects, documents, and organizes data and observations. Communicates activity records, service level metrics and other information requiring explanation or interpretation to team members, supervisors or customers.Job Descriptiono Under moderate supervision, provide direct benchtop services support at customer facilities.o Maintain lab inventory and labeling (e.g. chemical reagents, glassware, gas cylinder levels). Verification/maintenance of laboratory equipment (e.g. balances, pH meters).o Identify appropriate storage and track storage location (manual and/or electronic)o Secure samples for shippingo Coordinate with shipping/receiving team to stage items for shipmento Human Biological Sample (HBS) handling, including appropriate biosafety and privacy and ethical considerationso HBS disposals per AZ processeso Documentation and inventory management associated with HBS and HBS equipment handling
• Handling HBS storage equipment, including -80C freezers, -180C LN2 freezers, and ambient cabinets
• HBS labeling and accessioning into AZ Laboratory Information Management System (LIMs)
• Material Management Regards the biological samples
• Pack samples and document carton contents for manifest
• Maintain paperwork associated with sample deliveries
• Sample receipt check-in (manual and/or electronic tracking)
• Execute routine laboratory support procedures and preparations (e.g. media/buffer prep, solvent/reagent mixtures, filtrations, material weighing, some physical testing, witness senior staff experiments).
• Avantor Services Lab Support Specialist will be responsible for: