Job Description
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Collecting, receiving, labelling, and/or analysing samples or substances using the correct testing
equipment, when necessary.
- Recording all experimental data and test results accurately and in the specified format (written
and/or electronic.).
- Organising and storing all chemical substances, fluids, and other consumables according to
safety instructions.
- Ensuring that safety guidelines are adhered to at all times within the laboratory.
- Maintaining daily logs and equipment record books.
- Cleaning, sterilising, maintaining, and calibrating laboratory equipment.
- Ordering laboratory supplies, as needed.
- Discarding samples as per sample retention policy.
- Performing lot to lot verification of QC materials and reagents.
- Providing technical support, when necessary.
- Keeping up to date with relevant scientific and technical developments.
- Recording data from experiments or tests, including temperatures, concentrations of chemicals,and other measurements.
- Training new lab technicians on proper equipment use and safety procedures.
- Evaluating results and making conclusions about experiment methodology and results.
- Communicating with other members of the research team regarding experiments or test results.
Responsibilities toward Quality:
- Take responsibility to run daily QCs along with the RCA & CAPA for the outliers.
- To monitor daily QC along with the LJ-Charts.
- To ensure participation of the laboratory in available and relevant EQAS programs and ILC (InterLabcollaborative) studies.
- To document root cause analysis with corrective and preventive actions for all the outliers.
All duties will be performed according to written laboratory procedures and after appropriate training by a
designated supervisor.
Technical Duties
• Shall read, understand and comply to all department SOPs.
• Shall help in sample sorting instrument wise or as per STAT request.
• Shall perform Daily Maintenance and additional maintenance protocols as per SOP.
• Shall monitor stock and usage of reagent, controls, calibrator, consumables and back up spares
(probes, bulbs, tubings). To comply to the system procedure of Stock and inventory
• Shall plan and implement equipment acceptance testing (Test method verification) as per
defined procedures
• Shall ensure that expired material if noticed, to be escalated to designated supervisor. Not to
use any expired material.
• Shall monitor integrity of samples prior to processing
• Shall perform daily IQC, QC review (IQC outliers documentation), trouble shooting of errors,
root cause analysis, CA, PA with help of Section heads, Doctors.
• Shall participate in monthly QC review, internal audits and external audits
• Shall monitor pending reports as per protocol (3 – 4 hourly wherever applicable) and strive to
maintain desired TAT.
• Shall expedite STAT reporting as per protocol and inform critical alerts as per department policy.
• Shall review results and validate results after looking at delta check (previous reports)
• Shall ensure that appropriate pre-analytical conditions are met before releasing abnormal
reports for all tests.
• Shall check on retesting of results and recollection of samples for retesting with the consent of
HOD or other pathologists.
• Shall perform all manual tests under supervision.
• Shall perform retention, sample archiving and discard of samples as per QSP
• Shall point errors in existing processes and escalate the same.
• Shall print Levey – Jennings chart wherever applicable, document the Coefficient of variation of
analytes.
• Shall perform additional QC procedures as per requirement (Inter instrument comparison,
retained sample)
• Shall perform Proficiency testing and document it with the help of QA department
• Shall perform verification of new kits and maintenance of the equipment’s (testing and Non-
testing).
• Shall follow the calibration protocols and notify any concern to the senior.Role & responsibilities