Specimen Processor

About This Role

Process and handle laboratory specimens to ensure accurate and timely receipt, order entry, transport, and distribution. Provide excellent customer service to internal and external customers within a large health care complex.

Responsibilities

• Transport and receive barcoded specimens from inpatient units and distribute to work benches
• Centrifuge, aliquot, and store specimens for processing
• Prepare send-out specimens for reference laboratories and document problems
• Receive and process urine specimens including order entry, weighing, pouring, and aliquoting
• Receive and distribute items from the pneumatic tube system
• Enter laboratory test orders into the computer system from patient requisitions
• Scan all required requisitions and attachments for patient orders
• Receive, look up, and print Mi-Chart test labels and label specimens
• Manage and process Add-test requests for Outpatient and Inpatients
• Reconcile Mi-Chart unreleased and problem orders
• Provide total customer focus to meet the needs of all customers
• Comply with safety instructions and observe safe work practices

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Ability to walk 3-5 miles, climb and descend 6 flights of stairs, lift up to 10 lbs.
• Ability to bend at approximately a 45 degree angle multiple times within an eight-hour shift
• Ability to perform repetitive motion

Qualifications

• A high school diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with pneumatic tube system

Benefits