Our client, a Medical Research company, is looking for a Lab Assistant for their Houston, TX location. Responsibilities:

+ Perform the daily activities as described below.

+ Perform various routine laboratory functions in a precise and accurate fashion to assist the laboratory professional staff and to facilitate production.

+ Sorting, and receiving specimens in the department.

+ Performs routine instrument maintenance on some equipment.

+ Performs laboratory tasks of centrifuging specimens, printing extra labels, recording data (temperature charts) specimen storage and retrieval.

+ Preparing reagents and or media in the department.

+ Preparing specimens at workstations for testing. (Including building worklists, aliquoting specimens into sample cups, checking specimens for clots and fibrin, inoculation, slide preparation)

+ Performs QA/QC duties as assigned.

+ Resolves pending lists.