Lab Assistant

Work Schedule

Environmental Conditions

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life enabling our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research development and delivery of lifechanging therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100 countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio our work spans laboratory digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on now and in the future.

Our PPD Laboratory Services team has a direct impact on improving patient health through the expertise of scientists industry thoughtleaders and therapeutic experts. As the world leader in serving science our laboratory professionals bring their commitment to accuracy and quality to deliver groundbreaking innovations.

Discover Impactful Work:

Prepares slides monitors and records refrigerators freezers and water baths temperatures retrieves/moves specimens to/from long term storage assists in unpacking loads and unloads samples and analyzers and generates daily work lists for various teams (metrology sample entry stability etc.).

A day in the Life:

Sorts scans and assigns sequence numbers to different laboratory areas. Numbers HDL tubes for lipid laboratory.

Processes samples for testing.

Prepares reagents and pipettes/aliquots reagents under supervision.

Labels and stains hematology slides.

Gathers dumps rinses washes dries and restocks glassware and consumables in the laboratory.

Performs limited noncomplex waived tests for review by a team member.

Performs daily work assignments accurately and in a timely manner.

Keys to Success:

Education

High / Secondary school diploma or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification Experience

Previous experience that provides the knowledge skills and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 0 to 1 year) or equivalent combination of education training & experience.

In some cases an equivalency consisting of a combination of appropriate education training and/or directly related experience will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge Skills Abilities

Effective communication skills

Good cooperative and collaborative skills

Attention to detail

Ability to adhere to laboratory policies and standard operating procedures

Data recording skills

Ability to work in a collaborative team environment

Working Environment

Thermo Fisher Scientific values the health and wellbeing of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive. Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:

Able to communicate receive and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.

Able to work upright and stationary and/or standing for typical working hours.

Able to lift and move objects up to 25 pounds.

Able to work in nontraditional work environments.

Able to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency.

May have exposure to potentially hazardous elements including infectious agents typically found in healthcare or laboratory environments.

Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities.

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100000 colleagues we share a common set of values Integrity Intensity Innovation and Involvement working together to accelerate research solve complex scientific challenges drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD part of Thermo Fisher Scientific where diverse experiences backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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