Laboratory Technician

**Job Description Summary**:
We are looking for a highly motivated **Laboratory Technician** to provide critical, on-site support as part of a dynamic PerkinElmer lab service team. The role is mainly responsible for routine task completion to ensure the efficient operations within the customer lab space, to give time back to the scientists. These responsibilities require high level of attention to detail to provide a quality service.

This is a fixed term contract to cover a maternity leave through to March 2025.

Job Responsibilities:

- Management of chemicals and reagents used by the customers including delivery, collection of entities, maintenance of inventory and safety data sheets.
- Raise and track purchases using customer provided purchasing software, coordination of deliveries and liaison with customers.
- Preparation of chemical and biological shipments (national and international)
- Specific tasks tailored to the customers’ requirements.
- Follow SOPs, protocols, and other guidelines as it relates to the required tasks.
- Be able to interact with colleagues in other functions to solve technical problems.
- Maintain training and compliance in areas of health and safety, security, environmental and operational aspects of daily activities in the working environment.
- Provide and escalate continuous improvement initiatives to benefit ways of working.

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job at any time.

**Critical Skills**
- Attention to detail and understanding of the basic laboratory environment.
- Excellent organizational skills: ability to troubleshoot and solve problems independently.
- Ability to follow oral and written directions.
- Basic experience with MS Office: Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
- Excellent customer service and customer relations skills.
- Ability to critically review ways of working to effectively.

**Basic Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in a chemistry, biology, or other relevant discipline OR
- High School Qualifications with proven experience in a laboratory environment or customer service environment

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Experience within a laboratory environment.

**Working Environment**:

- Must be able to work in a laboratory, controlled environments requiring personal protective equipment (e.g., lab coat, safety glasses, etc.) in laboratory.
- Job pace may be fast and job completion demands may be high.
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position more than 25% of the time.
- The person needs to occasionally move between labs, corridors, adjoining rooms, and buildings onsite. Frequently operate on instruments, objects, tools, or controls, which will require regularly bending, squatting, stretching, and reaching to perform in a service function.
- Occasionally move or lift to 25 pounds (potential for occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds).
- Specific vision abilities required by this position include without limitation, the ability to observe details at close range distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus to perform the essential service functions of this position.
- Occasionally operates a computer and other office machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
- Employee may be required to handle hazardous waste according to local, state, and federal regulations. Duties may include identifying, handling, generating, accumulating, storing, and labeling hazardous waste.
- Potential risk to lab-based hazards including but not limited to extreme temperature, biological materials, and hazardous chemicals.
- May be required to complete Medical Clearance, Respiratory Protection Training, and Fit Testing to wear a respirator as protection against hazards present in the laboratory environment.