Senior Lab Technician

Medgenome Labs; Mumbai; On-site; INR 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Medgenome Labs in Mumbai is seeking a meticulous Laboratory Technician to support sample collection, handling and analysis using required testing equipment. You will maintain logs, ensure safety, perform QC checks and assist with calibration and maintenance.

Responsibilities include recording data accurately, following SOPs, training new staff, managing stock, and supporting QA activities such as RCA, CAPA and inter-lab participation. The role is on-site in Mumbai.

Qualifications

• Shall read, understand and comply to all department SOPs.
• Shall monitor stock and usage of reagent, controls, calibrator, consumables and back up spares (probes, bulbs, tubings).
• Shall perform Daily Maintenance and additional maintenance protocols as per SOP.
• Shall ensure that expired material if noticed, to be escalated to designated supervisor.

Responsibilities

• Collecting, receiving, labelling, and/or analysing samples or substances using the correct testing equipment, when necessary.
• Recording all experimental data and test results accurately and in the specified format (written and/or electronic).
• Organising and storing all chemical substances, fluids, and other consumables according to safety instructions.
• Ensuring that safety guidelines are adhered to at all times within the laboratory.
• Maintaining daily logs and equipment record books.
• Cleaning, sterilising, maintaining, and calibrating laboratory equipment.
• Ordering laboratory supplies, as needed.
• Discarding samples as per sample retention policy.
• Performing lot to lot verification of QC materials and reagents.
• Providing technical support, when necessary.
• Keeping up to date with relevant scientific and technical developments.
• Recording data from experiments or tests, including temperatures, concentrations of chemicals, and other measurements.
• Training new lab technicians on proper equipment use and safety procedures.
• Evaluating results and making conclusions about experiment methodology and results.
• Communicating with other members of the research team regarding experiments or test results.
• Take responsibility to run daily QCs along with the RCA & CAPA for the outliers.
• To monitor daily QC along with the LJ-Charts.
• To ensure participation of the laboratory in available and relevant EQAS programs and ILC (InterLabcollaborative) studies.
• To document root cause analysis with corrective and preventive actions for all the outliers.

Job description

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Collecting, receiving, labelling, and/or analysing samples or substances using the correct testing

equipment, when necessary.

• Recording all experimental data and test results accurately and in the specified format (written

and/or electronic.).

• Organising and storing all chemical substances, fluids, and other consumables according to

safety instructions.

• Ensuring that safety guidelines are adhered to at all times within the laboratory.
• Maintaining daily logs and equipment record books.
• Cleaning, sterilising, maintaining, and calibrating laboratory equipment.
• Ordering laboratory supplies, as needed.
• Discarding samples as per sample retention policy.
• Performing lot to lot verification of QC materials and reagents.
• Providing technical support, when necessary.
• Keeping up to date with relevant scientific and technical developments.
• Recording data from experiments or tests, including temperatures, concentrations of chemicals,and other measurements.
• Training new lab technicians on proper equipment use and safety procedures.
• Evaluating results and making conclusions about experiment methodology and results.
• Communicating with other members of the research team regarding experiments or test results.

Responsibilities toward Quality:

• Take responsibility to run daily QCs along with the RCA & CAPA for the outliers.
• To monitor daily QC along with the LJ-Charts.
• To ensure participation of the laboratory in available and relevant EQAS programs and ILC (InterLabcollaborative) studies.
• To document root cause analysis with corrective and preventive actions for all the outliers.

All duties will be performed according to written laboratory procedures and after appropriate training by a

designated supervisor.

Technical Duties

• Shall read, understand and comply to all department SOPs.
• Shall help in sample sorting instrument wise or as per STAT request.
• Shall perform Daily Maintenance and additional maintenance protocols as per SOP.
• Shall monitor stock and usage of reagent, controls, calibrator, consumables and back up spares (probes, bulbs, tubings). To comply to the system procedure of Stock and inventory
• Shall plan and implement equipment acceptance testing (Test method verification) as per defined procedures
• Shall ensure that expired material if noticed, to be escalated to designated supervisor. Not to use any expired material.
• Shall monitor integrity of samples prior to processing
• Shall perform daily IQC, QC review (IQC outliers documentation), trouble shooting of errors, root cause analysis, CA, PA with help of Section heads, Doctors.
• Shall participate in monthly QC review, internal audits and external audits
• Shall monitor pending reports as per protocol (3 – 4 hourly wherever applicable) and strive to maintain desired TAT.
• Shall expedite STAT reporting as per protocol and inform critical alerts as per department policy.
• Shall review results and validate results after looking at delta check (previous reports)
• Shall ensure that appropriate pre-analytical conditions are met before releasing abnormal reports for all tests.
• Shall check on retesting of results and recollection of samples for retesting with the consent of HOD or other pathologists.
• Shall perform all manual tests under supervision.
• Shall perform retention, sample archiving and discard of samples as per QSP
• Shall point errors in existing processes and elevate the same.
• Shall print Levey – Jennings chart wherever applicable, document the Coefficient of variation of analytes.
• Shall perform additional QC procedures as per requirement (Inter instrument comparison, retained sample)
• Shall perform Proficiency testing and document it with the help of QA department
• Shall perform verification of new kits and maintenance of the equipment’s (testing and Non- testing).
• Shall follow the calibration protocols and notify any concern to the senior.Role & responsibilities