Human Milk Laboratory Technician

General Description:

Assist in the general operation of the Mother’s Milk Bank of Iowa by weighing in human milk, prepping, slightly thawing and transferring human milk into flasks, delivering pasteurized milk to the Stead Family Children's Hospital/other hospitals, retrieving records, transporting human milk donations from milk collection depots to the milk bank, sanitizing labware and related functions. May be trained in the pasteurization of human milk process.

Characteristic Duties and Responsibilities:

Prep human milk for pasteurization and make bottle labels. 

Transfer partially thawed human milk into flasks using clean techniques.

Assist in the pasteurization process. This may include being trained to pasteurize.

Weighing in donor human milk.

Transport pasteurized human milk to hospitals and recipients.

Take tester bottles to the State Hygienic Lab for microbial analysis.

Travel to milk collection depots, other locations and transport frozen human milk. 

Sanitize flasks, containers, funnels and other labware.

Assist with milk donor screening and shipment of containers and blood kits to donors.

Maintain logs and records, make shipper boxes, unbox supplies, etc.

Run errands driving University vehicle.

Requirements:

Applicant must have a valid driver’s license.

A University vehicle is used for transporting milk, samples. Travel, no overnight trips.

Desirable Qualifications:

Availability to work one or more 8 hour week-day (M-F) shift(s), 8:30a-5p.

Flexibility to work longer hours if needed, occasional Saturday or Sunday.

Available to work summers and during school breaks. 

UI freshman or sophomore.