Laboratory Technician

Job Purpose

• Perform a range of standard medical laboratory tests, plan the maintenance of laboratory facilities and equipment, and coordinate activities related to calibration of technical equipment.

Job Context & Major Challenge(s)

• Deals with standard medical laboratory tests, routine clinical cases, and problems that arise daily to uncover diseases.
• Operate complex electronic analytical equipment, computers, and precision instruments.
• Use technical judgment to ensure test validity including recollection and retesting samples that may be followed or contaminated.

Key Job Accountabilities

• Plan day-to-day activities of the laboratory services, including program management, resources management, time allocation and scheduling, with the aim of reducing waste and optimizing the resources.
• Develop auditable and traceable quality standards and programs for laboratory operations.
• Ensure compliance of laboratory methodologies, protocols, and techniques with the developed quality standards in line with accredited standards, safety, and environmental regulations, and other applicable and standards.
• Perform quality control to ensure proper functioning of instruments, reagents, and standard solutions.
• Collect and process samples for a variety of routine clinical laboratory tests.
• Conduct analyses of various specimens collected from patients in compliance with the requirements of the quality system for the test being performed.
• Validate, calculate, and tabulate test results to ensure testing meets quality control requirements.
• Calibrate and maintain laboratory equipment and instruments, following established procedures.
• Order stock and control inventory to ensure adequate supply of sampling and analysing materials.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in medical laboratory technology.
• Valid primary license from the country of origin & should be eligible for license from Licensing authority in the State of Qatar to practice the profession.

Knowledge and/or Experience

• 4 years’ experience in medical laboratory work.
• Comprehensive knowledge of laboratory equipment, instrumentation and terminology used in the clinical laboratory.