Medical Lab Technician / MLT

UT Health Pittsburg offers 25 private rooms, a 24-hour Level IV trauma center and Level III stroke center, surgical suites, advanced diagnostics, a sleep lab, wound healing center, swing bed care, 16 physician offices and a UT Health East Texas Olympic Center fitness facility. This position performs routine and special laboratory procedures, quality control, preventative maintenance, minor equipment repairs, inventory control, and statistical compilation.

Overview: Responsibilities:

• The Medical Lab Technician (MLT) functions as a professional who assumes responsibility and accountability for the performance of clinical laboratory testing that pertains to patient care and diagnosis.
• This position performs routine and special laboratory procedures, quality control, preventative maintenance, minor equipment repairs, inventory control, and statistical compilation.
• Will additionally participate in the quality assurance and performance improvement tasks, new employee training, and proficiency testing as assigned.

Qualifications:

Job Requirements:

• Associates degree in Medical Laboratory Technician studies or a chemical, physical or biological science associates degree.
• ASCP or equivalent.
  • Certification must be maintained without lapse during employment
  • If certification does lapse, job will be downgraded to Medical Laboratory Technician (non-certified) until certification is reinstated.
• 5+ years’ of clinical laboratory experience as a Medical Laboratory Technician within a clinical laboratory.
• Current knowledge of clinical laboratory techniques and principles.