Lab Assistant

We are seeking a Laboratory Assistant to join Q2 Solutions, IQVIA’s laboratory business at Livingstone.

We hire passionate innovators who drive healthcare forward through thoughtful and inclusive collaboration. If you want to discover a career with greater purpose, join us as we transform and accelerate research and development.

Job Overview

Responsible for assisting senior laboratory staff with a variety of routine laboratory procedures.  Assists laboratory in processing, storage, and retrieval of specimens.

What you’ll be doing:

• Provides administrative and technical support to the lab.
• Maintains glassware by washing, rinsing, drying, distributing, and storing items like test tubes, beakers, flasks, and cylinders.
• Ensures cleanliness and orderliness of work areas, including disinfecting workbenches, materials, and equipment.
• Prepares and sterilizes laboratory supplies, equipment, and other materials.
• Responsible for tube labeling and preparation.
• Facilitates post-analysis storage and sample banking.
• Conducts routine equipment maintenance and may make simple buffers for lab preparation.
• Assists in the organization and maintenance of laboratory equipment and supplies, including inventory functions and general cleanup of workstations.

What We Are Looking For:

• High School Diploma or equivalent

• 0-6 months of relevant work experience

The Knowledge, Skills and Abilities needed for this role:

• Basic knowledge of practices and principles used in the laboratory.

• Basic knowledge of laboratory safety and infection control procedures and practices including standard precautions and hazardous chemical handling.

• Basic knowledge of general rules for safe exposure to chemical and blood borne pathogens.

• Basic knowledge of sterilization and decontamination procedures and hazardous waste management.

What We Offer You:

We put our employees at the center of everything we do and are committed to providing them, and their families, with benefits that meet their diverse and changing needs.  We invest in integrated benefits programs and resources to take care of our employees’ physical, mental and emotional, financial and social well-being so they can thrive at home and at work, at any stage of their well-being journey.

To learn more about our benefits, visit https://jobs.iqvia.com/benefits.

If you’re looking to unleash your potential, join Q2 Solutions, IQVIA’s laboratory business, to help make the extraordinary possible!

Q² Solutions,IQVIA’s laboratory business, creates connected intelligence by combining our expertise, technology and analytics - this fuels unparalleled research & development solutions. We uphold a deep commitment to patients, sites, customers, and each other. https://www.q2labsolutions.com/careers