Job Details
Profession: Lab
Type: Full Time
Medical Technologist MT / MLT (ASCP or AMT)
Day Shift, Generalist, Full Time
Competitive Salary/ Comprehensive Benefits
Summary:
The ideal candidate for this role will perform and monitor a full range of laboratory testing and analysis. Assumes responsibility for problem resolution, quality control, and required equipment maintenance with minimal supervision.
Qualifications:
- Graduate of an accredited 2-year MLT program, or a 4-year Laboratory science program – MLS, MT, or CLS.
- MLT/MLS/MT certified or eligible (must obtain within 6 months of hire date).
- Need to have a basic grasp of scientific laboratory procedures, including using laboratory equipment and generating reports from laboratory tests.
- Working knowledge of critical blood banking, chemistry, hematology, coagulation, urinalysis, and microbiology is preferred.
Responsibilities:
- The Medical Laboratory Technologist will spend the bulk of their time testing blood and bodily fluids by using complex laboratory equipment to ascertain a wide variety of information.
- Examine specimens for bacteria, viruses, or parasites.
- Measure levels of drugs or other chemicals in the blood to help ensure medications are at their most therapeutic levels.
- Look at the chemical content of the blood to determine deficiencies in nutrients or excesses of cholesterol or blood sugars.
- Make use of cell counters, cultures, microscopes, and other various types of equipment