Biorepository Technician

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

About the Role:

At Guardant Health, we are committed to positively and significantly impacting patient health through technology breakthroughs that pointedly address long-standing unmet needs in oncology. As the leader in the liquid biopsy field, Guardant Health has information about the mutational landscapes of over 30,000 patients.

As a Biorepository Technician, we are looking for someone who will be a vital link between internal Customer Service and the Clinical Lab personnel. The Biorepository Technician is responsible for receiving, unpacking, processing, and recording samples sent for laboratory testing.  The Biorepository Technician has demonstrated a good understanding of laboratory workflow. In addition to the primary role of sample accessioning, there will be a need to provide backup support to the Clinical Lab personnel on an as-needed basis. It is imperative that the Biorepository Technician has demonstrated the ability to work independently, but also function effectively as a member of the Guardant Health team. The nature of the work requires excellent attention to detail, effective written and verbal communication skills, the ability to multi-task and be flexible with tasks and schedules, and the ability to work independently in a team environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the Clinical Lab personnel with sample intake, accessioning, and plasma isolation
• Receive, unpack, and process incoming clinical specimens
• Enter and verify data in the LIMS database
• Prepare samples for testing by centrifuging and isolating plasma from whole blood
• Resolve and document incomplete or unacceptable specimens
• Aliquot specimens and manage sample storage inventory
• Create sample batches, print labels, and label tubes and batches
• Perform equipment maintenance and maintain equipment logs and records
• Keep laboratory equipment in good working condition by applying quality control measures, such as sterilization and greasing to avoid damages
• Support the administrative functions of the lab as required
• Check, monitor, and record temperature and perform root cause analysis of deviations and implement a resolution or initiate a service request when necessary
• Clean racks and other laboratory supplies
• Carry out and maintain sufficient inventory of laboratory stock for daily operations.
• Document all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the laboratory’s established performance specifications
• Assist with training of new laboratory personnel and training of new procedures with existing personnel

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Arts or Science in Biomedical Laboratory Science, Clinical Science, or related field preferred
• Previous laboratory work experience with sample intake, accessioning, and plasma isolation, preferred
• Experienced with centrifuging and isolating plasma from whole blood, preferred
• Well-versed in supporting the clinical lab personnel, preferred
• Knowledgeable of the scientific area of a Clinical Lab
• Familiar with documenting all corrective actions taken
• Strong computing skills, especially in databases
• Dedicated to making a difference
• Driven to make a positive impact in cancer diagnosis and treatment
• Great communicator with great written and verbal fluency in English
• Detailed-oriented with an appetite to drive tasks to completion
• Ability to work well in a rapid-pace startup environment
• Ability to work well in a group
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision

Additional Information

Hybrid Work Model: At Guardant Health, we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office da