Lead laboratory assistant vs senior laboratory technician

Differences between lead laboratory assistant and senior laboratory technician duties and responsibilities

Lead laboratory assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage daily laboratory operations including personnel, client consulting, analyses and adherence to GLP protocols.
• Conduct a monthly inventory of the chemistry stock room supplies.
• Conduct ongoing training of all lab assistants to use equipment properly (Stainers, processors, centrifuges etc .).
• Prepare reagents for microbiology specimens.
• Verify patient information, collect specimens from patients, properly labele specimen vials and submit specimens for further processing or testing.
• Implement an in-house immunofluorescent and special chemistry department, including electrophoresis and fluorescent microscopy, resulting in lower overhead costs.

Senior laboratory technician example responsibilities.

• Lead aerobic, anaerobic and UV light testing, chemical residue testing and centrifuge to separate chemicals from water.
• Operate a binary distillation column using LabView to separate a mixture of methanol and water.
• Provide and sign certificate of analyses for wet chemistry and microbiology.
• Perform CFU-blast, CFU-C, CFU-D, CFU-S assays.
• Create raw material library on FTIR.
• Perform manual titration, including testing bacteria and other water tests.
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