Full-time Medical Laboratory Technician or Scientist
Position with a coastal Oregon healthcare organization. The role involves performing routine and complex laboratory testing across multiple disciplines while ensuring accuracy, quality, and compliance with safety standards. It offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform routine and complex laboratory testing in hematology, chemistry, microbiology, immunology, blood bank, and urinalysis
- Analyze patient specimens, ensuring accuracy and quality throughout the testing process
- Operate, calibrate, troubleshoot, and maintain laboratory instrumentation
- Review and verify laboratory test results before reporting
- Follow quality assurance and quality control procedures to maintain laboratory excellence
- Adhere to laboratory safety standards, infection control policies, and regulatory guidelines
- Maintain accurate documentation and patient records
- Communicate effectively with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals regarding findings
- Assist with inventory management and laboratory supply organization
- Support continuous process improvement initiatives within the laboratory
Qualifications:
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Medical Laboratory Science or related laboratory science field
- Graduate of an accredited Medical Laboratory Technician or Medical Laboratory Scientist program
- Oregon laboratory licensure, if applicable
- Strong knowledge of laboratory procedures, instrumentation, and quality control practices
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and critical-thinking skills
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced clinical laboratory environment
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Proficiency in hematology, chemistry, microbiology, immunology, blood bank, and urinalysis
- Experience operating and maintaining laboratory instrumentation
- Understanding of quality assurance and quality control procedures
- Knowledge of laboratory safety standards and infection control policies
- Ability to maintain accurate documentation and patient records
Preferred Skills:
- ASCP, AMT, or equivalent national certification preferred or eligible