What are the responsibilities and job description for the Laboratory Sample Receiving Associate position at Microbac?
Job Description
Job Description
About the job
Come join our family! Microbac Laboratories is an essential business offering competitive pay and benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, generous paid time off including vacation, holidays and flextime, a wellness program, referral bonus, tuition reimbursement and more!
About Microbac
Microbac Laboratories, Inc. is a premier commercial laboratory testing firm that partners with clients worldwide, offering laboratory solutions to the life science, food and nutrition, and environmental industries and serves our clients with the utmost expertise and respect for their market requirements, constraints, and challenges. We embody a company-wide commitment to exceptional customer experience, which has been refined over nearly 50 years of trusted, analytical and measurement experience.
Through our network of laboratories, offices, and field services, we have the flexibility to meet the unique requirements for each client, project, and scope.
As a privately held third-party testing company, Microbac operates with a commitment to safety, quality, and compliance. Our diverse work portfolio includes broad accreditation offerings and tested insights across the environmental, food and nutrition and life science markets.
Job Summary
Sample Receiving Associates provide critical administrative support to the laboratory operations team by ensuring test samples are received, documented, and stored in a manner that protects the integrity of the sample and allows them to be located and identified in a quick and efficient manner.
Essential Functions :
- Interface with clients and vendors, providing outstanding customer service and ensuring that all samples are received, properly labeled, documented, tracked, and routed throughout the laboratory in a timely manner.
- Receive, unload / unpack shipments of test samples and supplies.
- Inspects shipments of samples to ensure sample integrity.
- Ensure all required documentation is thoroughly and completely filled out (i.e.; Chain of Custody Forms).
- Maintain a login system that is easy to understand and allows others to quickly locate and retrieve samples.
- Properly label and log samples into the Laboratory’s Information Management System.
- Determine and assign appropriate priority to incoming samples in accordance with customer requests and sample processing requirements.
- Package and ship samples to other in-network laboratories.
- Prepare sample bottle kits that clients use to collect and transport samples.
- Seek out and explore areas to streamline function and create efficiencies that save time or money that do not negatively impact quality.
- Perform various clerical duties such as data entry, filing, copying, faxing, and answering phones.
Minimum Qualifications
Working Conditions and Physical Requirements
The physical demands and working conditions described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Requirements :
Working Conditions :
While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be in a general office environment.
As a privately held third-party testing company, Microbac operates with a commitment to safety, quality, and compliance. Our diverse work portfolio includes broad accreditation offerings and tested insights across the environmental, food and life science markets.
OTHER :
This job description is not an exhaustive list of all duties an employee may be required to perform. Microbac reserves the right to revise the job description at any time.
Employment is at-will. Microbac, promotes a drug-free, alcohol-free workplace. Applicants considered for hire must pass a drug test before beginning work. Refusal to submit to testing will result in disqualification of further employment consideration.
Microbac is an Equal Opportunity Employer – We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.
Shift hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 9 : 00 AM - 5 : 00 PM
