The tasks a Laboratory Assistant, Pharmaceutical is expected to perform include:
- Arranging and setting apparatus and other equipment in the pharmaceutical laboratory
- Conducting routine tests of various ingredients for manufacturing drugs and medicines
- Assisting Pharmaceutical Chemist in performing studies and experiments
- Performing routine tests of different ingredients and recording observations, as desired
- Grinding and mixing chemicals and other raw materials in prescribed proportions for study, research or manufacture of drugs and medicines
- Collecting and testing samples at various stages of production to determine effects
- Ensuring compliance to specifications
- Maintaining precision apparatus and equipment in good working order and in safe custody
- Keeping laboratory clean and tidy
- Preparing samples for getting them tested by Pharmaceutical Chemist
- Researching and analysing drugs and medicine under Pharmaceutical Chemist’s guidance