Clinical Laboratory Scientist - EDRP Authorized
Veterans Health Administration
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Laboratory Worker
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Department of Agriculture
Location
Edinburg, Texas
Salary
$23.56 - $27.53
per hour
Type
Full-Time
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Job Description
Summary
This job involves supporting lab operations at a facility in Texas that works on controlling a pest called the New World Screwworm, which affects animals.
You'll handle tasks like cleaning and maintaining equipment, preparing supplies for tests, tracking inventory, and ensuring everything follows safety rules.
It's a good fit for someone with hands-on experience in lab or warehouse maintenance who pays close attention to detail and likes organized, routine work.
Key Requirements
- Training and experience in maintaining cleanliness and sanitation in a lab, warehouse, or similar facility
- Ability to assemble, disassemble, clean, and reassemble lab instruments and equipment
- Skills in preparing equipment and supplies for laboratory tests
- Experience with inventory management, including tracking consumption and ordering supplies
- Proficiency in performing quality assurance tests, calibration checks, and record-keeping
- Knowledge of safety precautions, policies, and procedures in a work environment
- Ability to prepare routine statistical reports
Full Job Description
If selected, you will be responsible for providing support in laboratory setting focused on New World Screwworm (NWS) activities.
To qualify, you must show you have had training and experience of sufficient scope and quality to provide you with the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position.
Your answers to the vacancy specific questions must be supported by the work experience in your resume.
For example, if you respond in the affirmative when questioned whether you have experience maintaining the cleanliness and sanitation of a warehouse or similar facility, your resume must include this experience, mindful that experience may not be inferred by job title.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).
Volunteer work helps build critical competencies and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Major Duties:
- The duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Assemble, disassemble, clean and reassemble various instruments and equipment of varying complexity.
- Provides the necessary equipment for each laboratory test.
- Prepares routine statistical reports for the Technical Operations Supervisor and the Dispersal Center Manager.
- Maintains a quarterly inventory of departmental equipment and tracks weekly consumption.
- Orders supplies, materials, and other items.
- Performs quality assurance tests and record-keeping including daily, quarterly and annual calibration checks on critical equipment.
- Complies with instructions, policies, and procedures related to safety precautions in the work area.
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