Laboratory Assistant

UC Davis Laboratory Assistant

Departmental Budget Salary or Pay Range: $26.79 - $29.13/Hour, commensurate with educational background and relevant working experience.

Under supervision, responsible for receiving/processing/routing clinical specimens, providing telephone/ results reporting coverage in the Receiving Section. Assist with animal care, handling and animal care facility maintenance. Responsible/assist in making/shipping biological media/reagents, washing glassware and managing biohazardous waste. These responsibilities are performed on a rotational basis.

• No minimum education required.
• Experience working in an environment with frequently changing priorities and work interruptions, and skills to effectively shift priorities and prioritize a heavy workload to meet required deadlines, while providing attention to detail with a high level of accuracy.
• Interpersonal, customer service, and communication skills (in person, in writing and by telephone) to interact effectively and professionally with a wide variety of individuals including CAHFS faculty and staff, clients, individuals from other university units, and government/outside agencies.
• Working knowledge of diagnostic procedures and tests used in a diagnostic laboratory, as well as veterinary and medical terminology.
• Skills to learn appropriate sample types and sampling techniques for a variety of microbiologic, immunologic, histologic and clinical chemistry tests and how adverse sample conditions may affect testing.
• Skills to use analytical balances, volumetric glassware, PH meters, centrifuges, automated dispensing equipment, sterilizing ovens, glass washers and dryers, and autoclaves.
Skills to work with blood, dead animals, tissues, and to handle potentially infectious material. Computer skills to quickly/accurately perform data entry into computer.

• Ability to learn UC purchasing policies, procedures and forms.
• Skill to learn computer programs designed for sample tracking, worksheet production, and workload reporting.

• 40% - Specimen and Data Management
• 35% - Glass Washing/Media Preparation and Shipping Areas
• 20% - Telephone Coverage and Results Reporting
• 5% - Other Duties

This is a critical position, as defined by UC Policy and local procedures, and as such, employment is contingent upon clearing a criminal background check(s) and may include drug screening, medical evaluation clearance and functional capacity assessment.

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The University of California, Davis is an Affiantive Action/Equal Opportunity Employer