Lab Technician · cover letter
[Date]
Dear [Hiring Manager],
After rebuilding the sample preparation workflow at my current lab, I cut average HPLC turnaround from 48 hours to 31 while holding assay accuracy above 99.4 percent across 1,200 monthly samples. I would like to bring that same blend of speed and precision to the bench at [Company].
For the past three years I have processed clinical and environmental samples under GLP, running titration, gravimetric analysis, and HPLC and GC methods on a daily basis. I prepare reagents and standards, validate calibration curves before each batch, and log every result in LIMS so the chain of custody stays clean and auditable. When a recurring baseline drift threatened our chromatography data, I traced it to a degrading mobile phase and rewrote the prep SOP, which removed 14 reruns a month.
Quality control is where I am most careful. I run duplicate controls on every assay, flag any reading outside two standard deviations, and document deviations the same hour they happen rather than at shift end. My contamination control habits, dedicated glassware, staged pipettes, and strict reagent dating, kept our last two external audits free of findings.
The turnaround gain came from batching sample prep rather than from running the instrument harder, and the method validation records for it are straightforward to walk through. I am glad to talk through the control charts before we meet.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
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