# Laboratory Assistant

**Company**: Ultima Genomics
**Location**: Carlsbad, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: $18/hour - $20/hour
**Category**: Other
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Ultima Genomics is seeking a highly motivated Laboratory Assistant to join our team! This is a part-time contracting position based in our Carlsbad, CA office to support our protein purification team.

As a Laboratory Assistant, you will be responsible for cleaning, inspecting, and returning labware to service so the protein purification team can keep runs on schedule. This involves washing 1-liter polycarbonate/PPCO centrifuge bottles, caps, and associated labware using approved detergents and validated procedures. You will inspect every item before it returns to service, checking for stress cracking, crazing, hazing, deformation, and scratched or nicked sealing surfaces. You will also tag and retire labware that fails inspection, flag recurring failure patterns to the purification team, rinse thoroughly with deionized water, and dry per procedure.

This position is ideal for a student in a life sciences program looking for hands-on biotech lab experience. The role requires a strong respect for laboratory standards and equipment, careful attention to detail, and a commitment to operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

- Wash 1-liter polycarbonate/PPCO centrifuge bottles, caps, and associated labware using approved detergents and validated procedures

- Inspect every item before it returns to service by checking for stress cracking, crazing, hazing, deformation, and scratched or nicked sealing surfaces

- Tag and retire labware that fails inspection; flag recurring failure patterns to the purification team

- Rinse thoroughly with deionized water and dry per procedure, confirming no detergent residue remains

- Keep the wash area clean, organized, and stocked; return clean labware to designated locations

- Maintain simple wash and inspection logs

- Autoclave labware and maintain cycle records

- Other job duties as assigned

Qualifications, Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

- High school diploma or equivalent

- Prior experience in a laboratory washroom, cleanroom, sterile processing, or Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)/Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) environment is preferred

- Careful, consistent attention to detail and willingness to follow written procedures exactly

- Reliable attendance on a set weekly schedule

- Ability to perform the physical requirements of the role, including standing for up to 4 hours at a time and lifting, moving, pulling, and carrying up to 25 pounds

- Capability to safely work around laboratory detergents, solvents, and biological materials using required personal protective equipment

- Familiarity with autoclaves, lab washers, or deionized water systems and understanding of plastic labware chemical compatibility is a plus

## Skills

### Required
- laboratory standards
- equipment handling
- attention to detail
- autoclave operation

### Nice to have
- prior laboratory experience
- familiarity with autoclaves
- lab washers
- deionized water systems
- plastic labware chemical compatibility

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