Scientist

Insight Global is looking for Clinical Laboratory Scientists onsite in Louisville, KY for a night shift position. Shift: 4x10 schedules : M-TH 2am-12:30pm & W- Sat 2am-12:30pm This role handles all infectious disease testing with a goal of providing 100% accuracy when processing samples. The CLS performs all essential functions such as laboratory safety, Good Documentation Practice (GDP), Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), specimen processing and troubleshooting maintaining productivity and quality assigned metrics, and providing effective communication with laboratory management and team. Essential Responsibilities/Duties: Performing sample prep, DNA extraction and PCR. Running KingFisher Flex, Accufill, VeritiPro, QuantStudio 12K and 5. Performing accurate manual and electronic pipetting of small sample volumes. Adhere to laboratory's quality control policies, quality control activities and SOP's. Review all SOP's and workflow updates in a timely manner and ensure all SOP updates are implemented in real time for workflow processes. Perform preventive maintenance checks and decontamination of equipment and workspaces. Follow the laboratory's established polices and procedures for notifying appropriate supervisors when test systems are not within the laboratory's established acceptable levels of performance. Facilitate and ensure appropriate individual work output is completed based on current company metrics. Identify problems that may adversely affect testing performance or reporting of test results by immediately notifying the General Supervisor and/or Technical Supervisor. Participate in processing proficiency testing samples, as applicable. Successfully complete all CEU credits as required by the company. Responsible for staying informed of all incident reports and compliance related issues by attending all team meetings. Ability to perform basic accession in pre-analytical operations: requirements for Patient Identifiers (PID), auditing and communicating client manifest issues, identifying specimens categorized as non-compliant, acceptance/rejection of patient specimens, and creating cases for exceptions and sent out orders.