Histology Technician

Job Title : Histology Technician

Job Location : Detroit, MI

Job Duration : 3 Months+

Shift : Work shift : Mon - Fri – 8 pm - 4 : 30 am

Job Responsibilities :

• Under limited supervision performs routine techniques on surgical, autopsy, and research tissue according to standardized procedures. Operates and maintains laboratory instruments and equipment required to perform analysis.
• Cuts surgical, autopsy, research and neuropathology tissue using a rotary microtome.
• Embeds surgical, autopsy, research, and neuropathology tissue.
• Stains, coverslips and labels surgical, autopsy, research and neuropathology tissue.
• Under supervision, performs special stains according to standardized procedures.
• Maintains all equipment and instruments. May demonstrate work to help onboard others.
• Mixes and maintains all solutions including stains and special fixatives.
• Maintains and records all QC, CAP, QA instrument function and maintenance records.
• Maintains a current inventory of all reagents and supplies.
• Adheres to Standard Work for all job duties and reports deviations for correction. Participates in data collection and quality improvement efforts.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.