Senior laboratory technician vs laboratory specialist

Differences between senior laboratory technician and laboratory specialist duties and responsibilities

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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Laboratory specialist example responsibilities.

• Manage patient, and corporate information with compassion and confidentiality.
• Process specimens in the areas of chemistry, toxicology, hematology, urinalysis, coagulation, serology, and microbiology.
• Perform general routine clinical laboratory testing in the areas of clinical chemistry, hematology, coagulation, urinalysis and blood bank.
• Perform DNA and RNA isolation, standard and real time PCR, primer design, gene sequence analysis.
• Perform clinical laboratory procedures in hematology, clinical chemistry and urinalysis.
• Provide customer service to patients and clinicians while collecting specimens and providing patient education.
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