Lab Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Lab Assistant

Job Description

We are seeking a dedicated Lab Associate to join our support services team. In this role, you will be responsible for aliquotting, maintaining lab supplies, inventory management, and building specimen batches for processing. You will support lab testing up to the point where specimens are passed off to the technicians, focusing on pre-analytical steps with a significant amount of pipetting. You will mainly be supporting the patient service side, assisting in checking in patients and documentation for patients.

Responsibilities

• Receive, stage, and aliquot specimens for testing.
• Work within a high-volume laboratory as part of a dedicated team to ensure patient results are reported within an acceptable turn-around-time.
• Maintain, calibrate, and clean instrumentation.
• Perform required quality control and quality assurance duties, including error detection and maintaining records/logs.
• Various processes such as specimen collection, data entry, and processing.

Essential Skills

• 0-1+ years of lab experience is preferred.
• Experience as an accessioner or specimen processor or medical receptionist is a plus.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Prior lab experience is preferred over no lab experience

Work Environment

• Will be working in a fast paced lab environment. This lab will be in charge of receiving and processing 100,000 samples a week.
• Currently have opening on 3rd shift Mon-Fri 11PM to 730AM.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Burlington, North Carolina.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Burlington, NC.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $18.00 - $18.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Burlington,NC.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Nov 7, 2025.

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing due to a disability, please email [email protected] for other accommodation options.