Next Gen Sequencing NGS Specialist
Next Gen Sequencing NGS Specialist
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LabCorp Drug Development provides dedicated and fully comprehensive laboratory testing and drug development services to the pharmaceutical industry. We strive to make a difference to peoples everyday lives by bringing essential medicines to the market.
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Benefits: All job offers will bebased on a candidates skills and prior relevant experience applicabledegrees/certificationsas well as internal equity and market data.Regular fulltime or parttime employees working 20 or more hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits including: Medical Dental Vision Life STD/LTD 401(K) ESPP Paid time off (PTO) or Flexible time off (FTO) Commissions and Company bonus where applicable. For more detailed information pleaseclick here.
LabCorp Drug Development is looking for a Next Gen Sequencing Specialist to join our Genomics team!
LabCorp Drug Development provides dedicated and fully comprehensive laboratory testing and drug development services to the pharmaceutical industry. We strive to make a difference to peoples everyday lives by bringing essential medicines to the market. As a key member of Central Labs team you will have the following responsibilities (including but not limited to):
Essential Job Duties:
LabCorp Drug Development is looking for a Medical Technologist to join the Next Gen Sequencing (NGS) operational team.
Education/Qualifications:
- BS or MS degree in Life Sciences Medical Technology or Clinical Laboratory Science OR Associates degree in medical laboratory technology
- A minimum of 2 years handson experience with NGS technologies and practices including but not limited to Nucleic Acid isolation and manipulation library preparation QC and NGS platform operations (MiSeq NextSeq NovaSeq preferred).
- Knowledge of clinical laboratory automation platforms is a plus.
- Ability to analyze troubleshoot resolve and report results and findings (informatics experience is not required but is a plus).
- Ability to support method development and improvement.
- Effective communication skills with technical staff business development staff and peers.
- Ability to work individually and as part of a team.
- Individual must qualify as testing personnel under the following CLIA 1988 and New York State Department of Health requirements.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities (not limited to):
- Performs assigned clinical laboratory testing accurately and in a timely manner.
- Prepares workstation and instrumentation for the assigned testing.
- Operates instruments to implement and perform testing in accordance with established written procedures.
- Performs routine testing and calculations as required.
- Resolves routine and nonroutine assay problems.
- Provides technical training/consultation for other operational staff.
- Ensures the validity of test results through the performance of established quality assurance and quality control procedures.
- Performs experiments as scheduled.
- Documents quality control results. Interprets quality control results and accurately documents biases warnings and violations of control rules.
- Documents corrective action for unusual occurrences (e.g. QC violations instrument related problems).
- Ensures maintenance of instruments and equipment is performed according to manufacturer and SOP requirements.
- Calibrates instruments equipment and/or assays as required and documents.
- Performs instrument and equipment troubleshooting.
- Notifies laboratory management when an instrument or equipment does not meet specifications.
- Complies with regulatory guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) at all times.
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