
Lab Assistant Specimen Processing
- Ottawa, ON
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- Join an award-winning "Top Employer" with meaningful and impactful career opportunities
- Access a health and wellness benefits program that supports you and your loved ones
- Grow and thrive with a dynamic, successful company through internal mobility opportunities
- Invest in your future through RRSP match benefits and an employee stock purchase program
- Experience a collaborative, diverse workforce that prioritizes dignity and respect for all
- Follows established protocol(s) in Specimen Processing
- Ensures that all samples are properly identified, data enter, and labeled
- Follows established protocol(s) for the handling of unsuitable samples
- Ensures all client inquiries and problems are handled in a courteous and professional manner
- Other duties as assigned
- Completion of secondary-school level education and a recognized Medical Laboratory Assistant training program
- Experience providing exceptional, professional customer focused service in a demanding and frequently changing environment
- Demonstrated ability to self-manage, prioritize and collaborate in a team-oriented, high volume, time-sensitive environment
- Proficiency in MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel) at an intermediate level
- Knowledge of laboratory procedures and ability to apply that knowledge in troubleshooting issues and providing recommendations for solutions
- Knowledge of AS400 Data Entry system/LIS
- Normal office environment
- Medical laboratory environment
- Required walking with repetitive motions
- May sit or stand for prolonged period of time with extensive computer use
- Required to lift a maximum of 30 pounds as required
- Exposed to bio hazardous substances, temperature differences and noise variances