Senior Lab Analyst
Randstad
- Abingdon, Oxfordshire
- £35,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Extractions
- Preparing lab reagents
- Running and saving SSTs
- Daily basic equipment checks and maintenance
- Keeping lab up to safe and efficient working standards (i.e. checking expiry dates)
- Maintenance of screening instruments including making reagents and QC's where appropriate
- Equipment validations (i.e. Heaters, Fridges, Freezers, Pipettes)
- 1st and 2nd review (processing & approval) of data
- QC trending and monitoring
- Scheduling the workload (Analyst and instrument utilisation)
- Authorisation of negative samples in screening as required
- Maintenance of all instruments including making reagents and QCs as required
- Science Graduate, or equivalent experience
- Understanding of appropriate analytical equipment in order to troubleshoot assay problems
- 2 years prior experience in a laboratory environment
- Previous experience with the requirements listed in Responsibilities
- Previous experience within Quality, Health and Safety and team training
- Excellent attention to detail
- Keen interest in process improvement in method development, lab process and quality, demonstrable experience preferred
- Is dynamic and tenacious
- Shows accountability and demonstrates ownership of their world
- Able to function well as an individual or as part of a team
- Able to take ownership of own work, awareness of when to solve a problem themselves or to ask their manager for help
- Conform with appropriate safety standards under The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
- Work in accordance with the current documented Standard Operating Procedures. Abbott Toxicology is an ISO 9001 and ISO 17025 certified laboratory.