Senior Clinical Laboratory Associate, Part-Time, Saturday-Sunday, 2x10 Hour Days (with Benefits)

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext™, Guardant360 Response™, and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal™ for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the Shield™ test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening.

Job Description

The Senior Clinical Laboratory Associate (CLA) is responsible for supporting the daily operations of the Clinical Laboratory and assisting the Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) during patient testing. In addition to the primary role of Senior CLA there will be a need to provide back-up support to the Research and Reagent Manufacturing groups. The Senior CLA will serve as a lead to the CLA team to coordinate tasks, divide workload, manage projects and review documents as assigned. The Senior CLA demonstrates the skills and competency to assist the CLS in automated sample processing and in all other support functions.

The nature of the work requires excellent attention to detail, effective written and verbal communication skills, the ability to multitask and be flexible with tasks and schedules, and the ability to work independently in a team environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Independently identify and troubleshoot high complexity problems that adversely affect the test performance for research sample testing.
• Assist with training of new laboratory personnel and training of new procedures with existing personnel.
• Assist with internal audits and inspection preparation, as needed.
• Manage organizing and maintaining laboratory, equipment, personnel and training documents.
• Set-up the liquid handlers and assist with liquid handlers automated procedures.
• Ensure on-time calibration of laboratory equipment is scheduled and performed.
• Report all concerns of test quality and/or safety to the Supervisor or Safety Officer.
• Work closely with the CLS’s and Accessioning Teams and Reagent Manufacturing team to provide consistent and ongoing support to the entire service department.
• Write and revise standard operating procedures, as needed.
• Identify process improvement opportunities and report to laboratory management.
• Provide guidance for new Clinical Laboratory Associates, give constructive feedback and provide peer review feedback for evaluations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Under the direct and constant supervision by the laboratory director or appropriately licensed individual:

• Perform equipment maintenance according to the laboratory’s standard operating procedures.
• Create sample batches, print labels and label tubes and plates.
• Maintain sufficient inventory of material, supplies and equipment in the laboratory for performance of duties.
• Check, monitor and record temperature and implement a resolution or initiate a service request as necessary.
• Clean racks and other laboratory supplies.
• Assist the CLSs during automated methods of patient testing.
• Work closely with the Leads of the Pre-Laboratory, Post-Laboratory and Accessioning Teams to provide consistent and ongoing support to the entire service department.
• Document all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the laboratory’s established performance specifications.
• Participate in projects under the supervision of a CLS or Supervisor along with maintaining quality and efficient workflow of daily duties.
• Participate with internal audits and inspection preparation, as needed.
• Manage organization and maintenance of the laboratory and equipment.
• Ensure calibration of laboratory equipment is scheduled and performed on time.
• Write and revise standard operating procedures, as needed.
• Identify process improvement opportunities and report to laboratory management.
• Lead the training of new and existing CLAs on current and new procedures.
• Provide guidance for CLAs, give constructive feedback and provide peer review feedback for evaluations.
• Participate in projects under the supervision of a CLS or Supervisor along with maintaining quality and efficient workflow of daily duties;
• Identify process improvement opportunities and report to laboratory management.
• Help manage the training of new laboratory personnel and o