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BioLife Plasma
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Job summary
BioLife Plasma Services is seeking a team member for its Villa Park, IL plasma center. You will screen donors, collect samples, and ensure regulatory compliance while supporting the center’s daily operations.
The role includes phlebotomy duties, medical history assessments, sample processing, and ongoing donor safety. Training and a collaborative environment are emphasized as part of the center leadership.
Qualifications
- Essential: High School Diploma or equivalent required.
- Desired: Experience in a laboratory, hospital, or other regulated environment is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Screen donors and collect samples per regulations.
- Greet donors and answer phones.
- Maintain filing system and purge records as needed.
- Perform venipuncture and operate plasmapheresis machine.
- Monitor donors during donation and respond to reactions.
- Prepare units for frozen storage and assist with shipments.
- Provide training assistance to center management and staff.
Skills
Education
Job description
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About BioLife Plasma Services
Every day at BioLife, we feel good knowing that what we do helps improve the lives of patients with rare diseases. While you focus on our donors, we’ll support you. We offer a purpose you can believe in, a team you can count on, opportunities for career growth, and a comprehensive benefits program, all in a fast-paced, friendly environment.
BioLife Plasma Services is a subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd.
Responsible for all job duties associated with the screening, processing, and sample collection for new and repeat donors, as well as providing training to staff. Fully trained in all Medical History, Phlebotomy, and Sample Processing job skills.
All listed duties must comply with federal, state, local and company-specific regulations related to quality of product, employee and donor safety and to the proper performance of day-to-day activities.
- Committed to meet customer service expectations (10%)
- Greet donors as they enter and exit the donor floor.
- Answer phones within reasonable timeframe.
- Maintain orderly filing system, purging records as needed.
- Perform venipuncture of donors and programming of plasmapheresis machine.
- Monitor donors during donation process and manage donor reactions.
- Troubleshoot venipuncture issues and respond to plasmapheresis machine alarms.
- Take and record donor pulse, blood pressure, and temperature measures and monitor electronic donor questionnaire system.
- Perform finger stick, test sample, and record other donor measures to include hematocrit, total protein and weight.
- Prepare units for frozen storage.
- Collect and store samples from plasma units for testing.
- Organize plasma boxes/documents for scheduled shipments and assist in loading shipments.
Provide training assistance in support of center management and supervisory team.
- Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise: Supports the center management team in identifying operational opportunities for continuous improvement, initiating changes to center processes as needed, through use of company approved procedures (including but not limited to 5S, Value Stream Mapping and Kaizen).
- Maintain general cleanliness of work area and assist other work areas as needed to ensure a clean and professional environment.
- Ability to read and follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and to maintain complete and accurate records.
- Good verbal communication and customer service skills.
- Demonstrated technical competence.
- Integrity
- Fairness
- Honesty
- Perseverance
- Putting the patient at the center
- Building trust with society
- Reinforcing our reputation
- Developing the business
- Refers to Center Manager for guidance on complex, medium-impact or above decisions (internal)
- Refers to management team for escalated donor/employee concerns (internal)
- Responsible for providing exceptional customer service to donors (external) and fellow employees (internal)
- Attend staff meetings and other team meetings as required.
- Ability to multi-task and work as a team player.
- Attention to detail and ability to work independent
- Coordinates will all other center roles to effectively problem solve, ensure safety of staff and donors, and provide an exceptional customer experience.
- Production environment requiring the ability to walk and stand for the entire work shift.
- Requires frequent leaning, bending, stooping, crouching, and reaching above the shoulders and below the knee.
- Requires frequent lifting up to 32 pounds, and occasional lifting up to 50 pounds.
- Must have fine motor coordination, depth perception, and ability to hear equipment sounds from a distance.
- Due to potential exposure to blood borne pathogens (risk level 1), 90% of work tasks require pro-longed glove wear
- Essential: High School Diploma or equivalent required
- Desired: Experience in a laboratory, hospital, or other regulated environment is a plus
FLSA Classification (US) - Non-Exempt
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.
USA - IL - Villa Park
$20.00 - $25.41
The estimated hourly wage range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual hourly wage offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. The actual hourly wage offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.
U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others. U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.
Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.
USA - IL - Villa Park
Employee
Regular
Full time
Job Exempt
No
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