Laboratory Technician at Equinoxx Power Engineering Limited

Job Summary

• A laboratory technician supports scientists and clinicians by running tests, maintaining equipment, and making sure data is accurate and reproducible.
• You’re the person who turns a sample into a result the lab can actually use.

Main Duties

• Sample handling: Collect, label, prepare, and store samples. Check for contamination or improper handling before analysis starts.
• Run tests & assays: Operate instruments like centrifuges, autoclaves, microscopes, spectrophotometers, HPLC, PCR machines, and automated analyzers. Follow SOPs exactly.
• Record & analyze data: Log results in LIMS or lab notebooks, perform basic calculations, flag outliers, and prepare reports for supervisors.
• Equipment upkeep: Calibrate, clean, and do routine maintenance. Report faults and assist with repairs.
• Inventory & ordering: Track reagents, consumables, and chemicals. Check expiry dates and avoid stockouts.
• Safety & compliance: Enforce PPE use, handle hazardous materials and waste per regulations, maintain biosafety and chemical safety standards.
• Quality control: Run QC samples, participate in internal audits, help maintain ISO 17025/15189 or GLP/GMP standards depending on the lab.

Typical Requirements

• Education: ND, HND, BSc in Medical Lab Science, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Microbiology, or related fields. For clinical labs in Nigeria, registration with MDCAN is usually required.
• Experience: 0-2 years for entry level, often with IT/internship experience. Senior roles want 3-5 years +

Key Skills & Attributes:

• Technical precision: Small errors compound. You need steady hands and consistent technique.
• Methodical & organized Juggling multiple samples without mixing them up is daily work.
• Problem solving: When a machine reads weird or a control fails, you troubleshoot first before escalating.
• Documentation discipline: If it isn’t written down, it didn’t happen. Auditors will check.
• Computer literacy: Excel, LIMS, basic stats. Most modern labs are digital.

Work Conditions:

• Lab environment with exposure to chemicals, biological samples, and noise from equipment.
• Standing for long periods, repetitive pipetting, strict time constraints.
• Shift work and weekends are common in hospital labs. Research/industry labs are usually 9-5 but can have tight deadlines.

Career Progression:

• Laboratory Technician → Senior Technician → Lab Supervisor → Lab Manager / Quality Manager. Some move into research roles, field application specialist roles for equipment vendors, or go back for MSc/MLS to become a scientist.
• The job is heavy on procedure and light on theory day to day, but good techs are what keep a lab credible.