Whether you're looking for a collaborative team setting, a career path that can lead to leadership, or experience with an industry leader, our Laboratory Support Technician opportunity offers many ways for you to get involved!

UPMC East is currently hiring a casual Laboratory Support Technician to work a daylight shift (7 am to 3:30 pm), Monday thru Friday. This role will support the Anatomical Pathology lab in the Cytology department.

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Purpose:
Works with Technical staff in the Laboratory to support analytic activities with tasks required prior to specimen analysis. Duties and responsibilities may vary by location and by services provided by the hiring department.
Responsibilities:

• Receives, sorts, prepares and delivers testing-ready specimens for analysis to work areas.
• Performs routine and basic instrument maintenance according to established protocols. Records temperatures if required.
• Assists with restocking supplies to maintain an optimal inventory. Maintains clean and orderly storage spaces for room temperature, refrigerated, and frozen supplies.
• Prepares and replenishes instrument reagents and consumables as needed.
• Assists with specimen/slide storage and retrieval.
• Decontaminates work area, keeping a neat and clean working environment.
• Keeps any glassware clean and dry, including tests for residue removal as needed.
• Tests and cleans emergency eyewashes and showers as assigned.
• Sorts laboratory waste as needed and ensures that proper disposal occurs.
• Transports specimens off-site and delivers supplies where required.
• Prepares specimens at workstations for testing. Includes building worklists, checking specimens for acceptability (clots, QNS), aliquoting specimens, loading/unloading specimens onto instruments.
• Prepares microscopic slides and plants specimens in microbiologic growth media where required.