Research technician lead vs senior laboratory technician

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

Research technician lead example responsibilities.

• General laboratory duties; coordinate maintenance of equipment, maintain ingredient and prototype inventory, manage shipping and receiving.
• Train temporary staff and interns, create training materials, troubleshoot technical issues.
• Develop, in collaboration with others, efficient methods for the sequencing of DNA.
• Execute lab techniques, including protein complementation, PCR, ligations and high throughput robotics.
• Coordinate and present information regarding the progress of large scale DNA sequencing projects on a weekly basis.
• Perform in-store audits of package and display labeling for accuracy of EPA, FTC, and FDA consumer claims.
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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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