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Req #: 246642

Department: SURGERY

Job Location Detail: Primarily onsite, occasional telework allowed

Posting Date: 06/05/2025

Closing Info:

Closes On 06/12/2025

Salary: $3,664 - $4,119 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes:

As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-summary-classified-staff-greater-than-half-time-20220908\_a11y.pdf)

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

UW School of Medicine’s Trauma, Burn, and Critical Care Division within the Department of Surgery, has an exciting opportunity for a 1.0 FTE Laboratory Technician 2 to support faculty research at Harborview Medical Center’s Research and Training building.** **POSITION PURPOSE

This position will work in Dr. Scott Brakenridge’s research lab whose research is focused on trauma, sepsis, persistent inflammation/immunosuppression as well as catabolism after shock. Studies include determining the immunologic mechanisms and endotypes of severely injured or septic human patients, as well as the development and application of genomic, cellular, and functional immune analytic techniques for clinically relevant precision medicine applications.

To manage the responsibilities of this position, the Laboratory Technician 2 must have appropriate technical skills to readily integrate into the laboratory, which involves molecular biology, immunology, and cell culture techniques. This position reports to the Research Scientist/Engineer (RS/E) with a matrixed reporting relationship to Dr. Brakenridge.

The Laboratory Technician 2’s primary duties are in three categories:

• Provide research support for projects in the HMC Department of Surgery Laboratory (65%)

• Communication with multi-research sites (25%)

• Assist with laboratory compliance; set up and management of HMC Laboratory Space (10%)

The scientific work of the program requires attention to detail and a general understanding of

biochemistry and scientific concepts. Basic research laboratory, molecular biology, immunology, and cell culture skills and training/experience are required. Program-specific protocol and

technique training will be provided as part of the onboarding process. The Lab Technician 2 will

routinely perform sample preparation and analyses of human biological samples (i.e., blood). The

individual in this position will assist the RS/E as they perform procedures from established

protocols and will help to recognize and analyze technical problems and unexpected results.

The NIH-funded research program is part of a large multi-institutional collaborative program. As

such, the Lab Tech 2 will be communicating and working with all participating sites on a regular

basis, under the guidance and supervision of the RS/E.

Our Mission and How This Position Contributes:

The Department of Surgery is a large department within the School of Medicine, with surgeons practicing at all our locations and in eight surgical subspecialties. The UW Department of Surgery is guided by our mission of providing compassionate and high-quality patient care, training future generations of surgical leaders, and conducting research in a collegial environment that embraces diversity and promotes inclusiveness.

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI):

The Department of Surgery strives to dismantle systemic racism, eliminate healthcare disparities, and promote health equity in our work. Racism and intolerance have no place in our community. We celebrate our multitude of intersecting identities and commit to the ongoing effort of creating an inclusive and supportive workplace climate.

All staff in the Department of Surgery are asked to demonstrate and develop the following core competencies:

• Quality Focus: strives to deliver the best possible service and results, and continuously seeks opportunities for improvement.

• Key attributes: accuracy, customer service, continuous improvement, problem-solving, and self-development

• Planning & Organization: completes work in a timely, efficient, and resourceful manner

• Key attributes: priority setting, efficiency, resourcefulness, adaptability and flexibility, organizational awareness, and initiative

• Teamwork & Relationship Building: builds and fosters positive working relationships with others to achieve shared objectives.

• Key attributes: collaboration, communication, emotional intelligence, recognition, accountability, and integrity

• Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: values and honors diverse experiences and perspectives, strives to create welcoming and respectful work environments including dismantling structures of oppression, promotes and contributes to a culture of access, opportunity, and justice.

• Key attributes: respect, cultural humility, inclusiveness, advocacy, and commitment

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES** Provide research support for projects in the HMC Department of Surgery Laboratory = 65%

• Perform sample processing of specimens from human patients. Blood and other sample processing collected by research nurses or research coordinators. Sample preparation and cryostorage for translational laboratory experiments and analyses

• Perform primary cell culture, cell isolation, RNA/DNA isolation and analysis

• Assist/perform scientific experiments, including ELISA, ELISPOT, and flow cytometry experiments

• Assist with maintaining quality control for assays performed throughout the laboratory

• Review data collection and analyze data; maintain records of results

• Discuss results with PIs and other scientists to assess and analyze research data; analysis will be used for reporting results and writing scientific articles. Based on contributions, may be listed as co-author or acknowledged in peer-review publications

• Prepare laboratory reagents, chemicals, instruments and equipment

• With oversight from the Research Scientist/Engineer, perform quality assurance/quality control procedures for all scientific procedures performed and create QA/QC procedures for new scientific protocols

Communication with multi-research sites = 25%

• Maintain effective and consistent communication with the Research Scientist/Engineer and Division Principal Investigators (PIs)

• Participate in weekly & ad hoc laboratory meetings and planning sessions

• Ensure effective transfer of experimental results and/or biospecimens to designated individuals, collaborators, or contract companies

• Order chemicals, reagents, and other supplies

• Collection, processing, and cryostorage of tissue, blood, and other samples. Record and organize patient samples for subsequent analyses

• With oversight from the Research Scientist/Engineer, receives, organizes, and ships out clinical samples to collaborator sites for analysis. Prepares human blood collection and analysis kits for use in clinical studies by multiple nationwide clinical sites

• Helps to maintain laboratory within federal and university guidelines regarding storage, use, and disposal of radioactive isotopes and flammable, corrosive biological and toxic chemicals; is responsible for coordinating procedures to inactivate biological waste, including human blood/tissue products, and tissue culture waste

• Participates in the maintenance of inventory records and the use of controlled substances and select agents

Assist with laboratory compliance; set up and management of HMC Laboratory Space = 10%

• Maintains laboratory supplies and equipment performance

• Recommends and orders supplies

• With the oversight from the Research Scientist/Engineer, orders technical assistance and equipment servicing from businesses, equipment, and assay quality control

• Oversee, update, and audit biobank cryostorage equipment and inventory documentation

• Participates in the demonstration of routine laboratory techniques to PIs and staff

• Assists in the management of records of supply use, pricing, and suppliers

• Participates in training on specialized equipment for other lab/research personnel as necessary

• Performs surveys regularly to assess compliance with local, state, and federal regulations

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• One year of college with course work emphasizing laboratory science; OR one year’s experience performing routine laboratory work, or equivalent.

Equivalent education and/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and/or registration.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical science

• 2 years of laboratory benchwork experience or more in molecular/cell biology and immunology techniques

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

• Work in a laboratory environment

• Work with human biological specimens (i.e., blood samples)

• Occasional telework allowed

We hope you will apply and please learn more about our department, values, and core competencies at https://uwsurgery.org/about/staff/

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.