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Histology Technician
Newark, DE
The Histology Technician assist with general laboratory operations and routine laboratory or information handling tasks in support of scientific research. Maintain laboratory facilities and equipment in accordance with laboratory standards in order to help ensure the validity and integrity of experimental results.
Histology Technician Responsibilities:
Histology Technician Requirements:
Hunter International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity and affirmative action regulations.
Newark, DE
The Histology Technician assist with general laboratory operations and routine laboratory or information handling tasks in support of scientific research. Maintain laboratory facilities and equipment in accordance with laboratory standards in order to help ensure the validity and integrity of experimental results.
Histology Technician Responsibilities:
- Set up before, provide prosectors with support during, and help clean up after necropsies.
- Provide necropsy and histology lab support including but not limited to changing solutions, printing slides/cassettes, running the slide staining machine and other equipment, weighing tissues, unpacking and preparing specimens for shipment, etc.
- Euthanize laboratory animals to help ensure the humane treatment of animals.
- Observe and record data such as weights and physical characteristics of laboratory animals in accordance with Laboratory standards.
- Observe and record facility and equipment measurements such as weights and temperatures in accordance with Laboratory standards in order to help ensure the validity and integrity of experimental results.
- Work as a member of a team toward timely, efficient, accurate and precise production of histological slides for examination by the pathologist. If workload and performance allow, this could include embedding, cutting, staining and coverslipping.
- Operate, clean/maintain facilities and equipment in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Order, receive, decontaminate, and store equipment and other consumables; stock cabinets in order to help ensure efficiency of laboratory operations.
- Provide general assistance toward laboratory operations such as preparation of reagents and solutions, and disposal of biological and/or chemical waste in order to help ensure that operations run smoothly and efficiently.
- Adhere to EPA regulations, protocols, Standard Operating Procedures and Good Laboratory Practices.
Histology Technician Requirements:
- Bachelor of science degree.
- Organize, prioritize, and complete assignments to stated specifications.
- Contribute to a safe working environment.
- Maintain/obtain computer skills, commensurate with Essential Functions; including ability to learn a validated system.
- General chemistry, biology, and mathematics skills.
- Must be able to operate in a regulatory environment.
- Must be flexible and able to obtain new knowledge and skills that will contribute to overall objectives.
- If role evolves into necropsy/histology technician position, must be able to work a minimum of one weekend in an eight-week period. If role remains as a lab assistant, weekend work is not required.
- Must be willing to handle laboratory animals.
Hunter International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity and affirmative action regulations.
