Laboratory Technical Coordinator

Founded in 1940, Dignity Health - Marian Regional Medical Center is a 191-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Santa Maria, California. Serving over 250,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, cancer care, orthopedics, and stroke care. Additionally, Marian Regional Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and the only healthcare facility on the Central Coast to offer ECMO.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

As a Lab Tech Professional, you will perform vital clinical laboratory procedures to detect, identify, measure, and report data crucial for disease diagnosis and treatment.

Every day, you will expertly conduct waived and moderate procedures using technical skills, instrumentation, and information systems, providing essential clinical laboratory support while ensuring the quality and accuracy of all tests under leadership direction.

To be successful in this role, you will possess comprehensive knowledge of laboratory principles across various disciplines (microbiology, hematology, chemistry, etc.), understand sample processing and result interpretation, prioritize chemical and biological safety, and be adept at operating and maintaining lab equipment.

• Coaches laboratory personnel to train for adherence to relevant policies and ethics
• Oversees most laboratory day-to-day operations and exercises authority over operational decisions
• Analyzes and interprets laboratory results in accordance with established laboratory work processes
• Administers laboratory inventories such as supplies, equipment and consumables
• Assists with selection of test methodology that is appropriate for the laboratory use of the test results
• Verification of the test procedures performed and establishment of the laboratory's test performance characteristics, including the precision and accuracy of each test and test system

Required

• Bachelors Of Science in a chemical or biological science as defined by CLIA. and 2 years clinical lab experience in the designed lab area/speciality, upon hire

Preferred

• International Medical Laboratory Scientist, upon hire or
• Blood Banking, upon hire or
• Chemistry - ASCP, upon hire or
• Clinical Laboratory Scientist, upon hire or
• Clinical Laboratory Technologist, upon hire or
• Technologist in Molecular Biology, upon hire or
• Medical Laboratory Scientist - Med Technologist, upon hire or
• Medical Technologist AAB, upon hire or
• Technologist in Microbiology, upon hire or
• Medical Technologist AMT, upon hire or
• Med Technologist - ASCP, upon hire or
• Specialist in Hematology, upon hire or
• Specialist in Microbiobiology, upon hire or
• Histotechnologist, upon hire