LABORATORY TECHNICIAN

Description

**Main Responsibilities:** * Register patients in the system according to the physician's request and current acceptance rules; * Perform maintenance and cleaning of equipment, check supplies, reagents, and consumables; * Complete the departmental control spreadsheet; * Assist in quality control processing; * Release Level I results; * Verify sample quality upon receipt, recording non-conformities (acceptance under restriction) and/or need for recollection (rejection); * Process routine biological samples; * Count supplies within the department; * Request reagents and supplies for both collection sites and hospital pharmacies and warehouses; * Monitor delay statistics; * Perform tests manually; * Contact technical support when necessary; * Resolve mechanical equipment issues when required; * Assist in training new department staff on performed activities; * Collect biological samples when necessary; * Clean and organize workbenches and the department in general; * Dispose of waste in accordance with the PGRSS; * Send biological samples to the technical department, properly stored as described in POA.SGQ.20, which covers sample transportation and preservation; * Dispose of generated waste correctly, in compliance with RDC 222 and PGRSS; * Accurately record: refrigerator temperature, thermal box temperature, ambient temperature, collection logs, traceability control, thermal box washing, and collection kit cleaning, among others, in the spreadsheets; * Safeguard company property provided for performing duties and promptly notify the immediate supervisor if replacement or repair is needed, maintaining a clean work environment; * Monitor and track expiration dates of used supplies, and notify the responsible person when changing batches; * Receive and forward customer NCs (Non-Conformity Reports) to managers; * Follow department-defined routines; * Support physicians in cerebrospinal fluid and myelogram collection when necessary; * Notify the medical and/or nursing team of mandatory notification test results.