Salary: Dependant on experience / Hourly	Location: Houston, TX
Type: Full-Time	Postal Code: 77027

Texas Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists has the most technologically advanced diagnostic equipment and a group of dedicated veterinary specialists in critical care, dermatology, internal medicine, oncology, and radiology. Currently we have a position available in our laboratory as a laboratory service technician. This position is responsible for ensuring the laboratory is fully stocked and in complete working order at all times to maintain quality control. They need to have experience in project management and have good time management skills. The position requires a person who is customer service oriented and has effective communication skills in order to perform the work as delegated and produce quality results. The LST must be a dependable, high energy person who can handle multiple tasks at one time as well as a high stress environment, while maintaining a courteous attitude with their clients, the TGCVS doctors and staff. We offer excellent benefits and competitive salaries.

Benefits include:
Paid Time Off
Health Insurance
401K Profit Sharing Program
Paid Holidays
Continuing Education
Uniforms Provided
Discounted Pet Services and Supplies

Applicant must be able to work 6am-3pm Monday thru Friday and be willing to adjust their schedule based on company needs. The minimal skills required for this position include sample collection (venipuncture, urine collection, fecal collection, etc.), setting up and reading fecals (float/direct/smear), setting up and reading skin scrapings, generating smears and cytology’s as needed, reading manual platelet counts and differentials, performing urinalysis and sediment readings. Other duties include:

COMMUNICATIONS - Maintain open and respectful lines of communication with all TGCVS staff, meet monthly with DPC to insure goals are being met, inform all TGCVS of laboratory updates as needed, develop and maintain open and respectful lines of communication with all laboratory vendors.
JANITORIAL - Clean all laboratory areas daily, stock all laboratory areas daily, ensure all laboratory reference materials and supplies are easy to locate and access by all TGCVS staff.
INVENTORY - Maintain all laboratory in-house tests, maintain all laboratory supplies, maintain all necessary forms for outside laboratories, maintain storage areas of all ‘hold’ samples.
EQUIPMENT - Perform all daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance, recalibrate equipment as needed, troubleshoot and perform repairs when having equipment malfunctions.
LABORATORY SERVICES - Perform all TGCVS in-house laboratory work submitted during the LST designated shift, assist in the proper handling, packaging, and shipping of all ‘send out’ lab tests, act as a reference to all TGCVS staff in regards to laboratory service questions, maintain a reference list of all laboratory tests either sent out or performed in-house, with specimen requirements and laboratory test is performed at.
INVOICING - Check all outside laboratory invoices and submit to the finance department, report all employee pet lab work sent to outside laboratories to CST for billing.
REPORTS - Create monthly reports of all laboratory tests performed, create annual reports of all laboratory test performed and the pricing, create reports as requested for price analysis.
PRICING - Update all laboratory service prices yearly as approved by the DPC, create pricing for all new laboratory tests based on pricing scale.
RESEARCH - Investigate new laboratory equipment as requested, investigate new laboratory tests as requested, investigate pricing and different outside lab sites as requested, assist in the management of TGCVS research projects requiring laboratory services.
SAMPLE COLLECTION - Assist in the collection of specimen samples as needed, insure proper modalities are used for samples collected.

If you are interested in joining our team, please fax your resume or inquiry to Lauren Diamond at 713-579-2538 or email it to the contact email listed below.

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