Laboratory Technologist - Human Body Material Bank (SoHo) (M/F/X)

🎯 As a SoHo technologist, your main missions are:

• Participation in the preparation of allografts for use in cardiovascular surgery

• Daily management of all tasks inherent to donor selection, dissection, cryopreservation, storage, and tissue distribution

• Participation in an unsupervised on-call duty roster

✨ Your main activities:

• Contacting harvesting centers for donor selection

• Interpreting complex and sensitive data relating to donors

• Receiving SoHo materials and preparing the file

• Applying necessary precautions regarding the biological hazard of SoHo

• Handling all SoHo processing files

• Preparing the equipment and solutions necessary for SoHo transformation

• Working in a cleanroom and under laminar flow

• Acting as an assistant in the cleanroom

• Under delegation: aseptically dissecting, decontaminating, and cryopreserving SoHo, performing morphological and functional studies, and taking SoHo measurements

• Recording various data in the file or in the EHB Manager software

• Preparing biological validation quality controls (histology, virology, bacteriology)

• Taking charge of sending and/or dropping off samples at the laboratory

• Using controlled freezing equipment and cryogenics for allograft storage

• Ensuring the list of available tissues is updated

• Under delegation: proposing allografts to the implanting surgeon

• Packaging allografts for transport

• Receiving and processing the results of biological quality controls (histology, virology, bacteriology)

• Handling all required encoding

• Ensuring the traceability of SoHo files and waste

• Ensuring the cleaning and maintenance of equipment used during the various processes

• Performing necessary environmental controls during production stages

• Checking parameters related to the activity (temperature, pressure, nitrogen level, etc.)

• Participating in consumable order management, scientific research work, development and validation of new equipment or processes, and continuous improvement of the quality system

• Using the EHB Manager software

• Encoding general information, clinical data, and results

• Participating in internal/external audits and training new recruits

🎓 Required qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree with a scientific orientation

🚀 Required skills for the position:

• Knowledge of working techniques in controlled environments

• Knowledge of French, English, and Dutch in a medical context

• Proficiency in computer tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint, etc.

• Ability to comply with rigorous methodological processes

• Organizational and planning skills

• Discipline and compliance with required cleanroom behavior

• Respect for hygiene and safety rules

• Professional conscience, deontology, ethics, and professional secrecy

• Analytical and synthetic skills, rigor, and precision

• Critical thinking

• Ability to work in teams

• Autonomy and sense of responsibility

• Listening and communication skills