Confirmation Chemist

Job description

GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY: Perform duties related to sample preparation, submissions, and/or data review with strict adherence to departmental procedures; work in compliance to departmental safety requirements consistent with good laboratory practices. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Notify management of needed supplies; assist with maintaining an inventory of consumables and receiving and stocking supplies. Other duties as assigned. - Receive and separate samples; verify proper chain of custody, prioritize re-preps, determine prep dilutions, create batch worksheet and labels, prep samples for drugs of abuse. - Monitor, maintain, clean, calibrate, and record needed documentation on equipment; manual single and multi-channel pipettors, balance, heat blocks, refrigerator, freezer, temperature monitoring system, glassware. - Operate, monitor, maintain, calibrate, troubleshoot, and record needed documentation on instrumentation; Tecan, LC/MS/MS, ICS, Headspace, microplate reader, microplate washer. - Proper material labeling, pipetting of controls and samples, transfer and enter sequences onto designated instruments for analysis, loading of samples on to instruments. - Maintain and dist...