Lab Technician - Military Veterans
at Kelly
Job Description: Laboratory Operations Specialist 1
Pay Rate: $23-27/hr
Location: South San Francisco, CA
The Laboratory Operations Specialist will work both independently and with other members of the Lab Operations Team to develop processes that provide member companies with the services, supplies, and equipment they need to accomplish their research. The position will also include tracking and partially managing the current processes while suggesting process improvements. The Laboratory Operations Specialist will support multiple facilities and customers in the San Francisco Bay Area, interact with a diverse group of member staff, and flourish in a fast-paced and demanding research environment.
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Facility and equipment maintenance, and ‘day-to-day’ procedures, following internal procedures and direct instruction, which can include:
- Make common lab solutions such as 70% IPA
- Autoclave dishes and media as a service for members
- Keep common instrument areas clean and orderly
- Maintain biosafety cabinets and incubators, including regular sterilizations
- Remove medical/biohazardous waste from laboratories and transfer to onsite accumulation area
- Inspect and label safety shower/eyewash stations and fire extinguishers
- Refill safety glass dispensers
- Monitor levels of common-use dry ice and liquid nitrogen; refill as necessary
- Receive packages from external carriers and deliver to internal recipients
- Enter newly received chemicals into chemical inventory
- Defrost freezers and perform cold storage inspections
- Spill kit, fire extinguisher, and eyewash inspections
- Miscellaneous cleaning tasks as needed
- Make common lab solutions such as 70% IPA
- Proactively interact with member scientists to identify and resolve issues with services, equipment, and supplies. Use an electronic ticket system to record issues and report progress to requestors.
- Coordinate with BVL team and outside vendors for lab support (equipment, services, facilities, etc.).
- Contribute to creating, updating, and following SOPs associated with BVL site operations.
- Suggest ideas and bring solutions for site improvements and increase efficiency.
- Assist with any changes or cleaning necessary for the site to maintain an appealing atmosphere.
- Help improve existing policies and procedures that act as a template for current and future BVL sites.
- Proactively interact with BVL member companies to identify and resolve issues with services, equipment, and supplies.
- Flexible, versatile, and adaptable to assist new members/customers and continuous improvement projects.
- Requires traveling between sites.
- Perform other duties as assigned by management.
Qualifications / Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or AA/AS degree in life sciences or related field.
- Minimum of 1 year of experience in a laboratory setting.
- Able to work in a flexible and fast-paced environment that is constantly changing.
- Certifications: None required, but EH&S, HazMat, and bloodborne pathogen training is highly desirable.
- Travel: Must be able to travel between sites 50% of the time.
- Licenses: Driver's license required as travel will be needed between sites.
- Physical Abilities: Able to lift 50 lbs., work requires walking, standing, bending, reaching, lifting or carrying objects that typically weigh less than 10 lbs.
As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.
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Kelly applies targeted recruiting initiatives to the Veterans population (in all stages of transition) by aligning customer defined requirements with military skills and experience. The transition from military to civilian life can be stressful and complex for veterans, and our staff is trained to assist in this transition. Unlike our competition, Kelly places these resources without geographic or industry constraints, offering our customers and our employees greater flexibility. Kelly has a wide variety of local opportunities, for Veterans and their spouses, within our workforce solutions as well as national recruiting programs on behalf of our customers. Kelly’s leading placement opportunities for Veterans are within Information Technology, Engineering, Science, Light Industrial and Call Center.
Our specially trained Veteran recruiters are armed with a number of tools to help Veterans obtain roles that match their potential including skill translation tools, leading Veteran- centric job boards and Veteran/spouse social media networks, among others.
Through Kelly’s vast branch network, we are closely located to the majority of major military installations across the United States. Kelly recruiters participate in onsite and virtual military career fairs as well as advertise through local and national Veteran job boards. In recent years, over 150 Kelly branches have worked directly with their local military installations to recruit spouses and transitioning personnel. These teams not only engages with transitioning talent from local bases, but also have a strong focus on Veterans in areas where the military has identified high Veteran unemployment. This approach ensures that military talent is engaged and shared across the centralized military recruiting team and documented in a centralized database, so that other Kelly locations can benefit from hiring or relocating this valuable pool of talent.
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