PHARMACY/LEAD TECHNICIAN
Yakima, WAJob$28.5/hrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Pharmacy/Lead Technician supports pharmacy operations and health and wellness initiatives while assisting pharmacists with responsibilities that do not require professional judgment. The role provides customer service, trains and mentors technicians, helps coordinate staffing, oversees inventory, and supports pharmacy safety. It requires a high school diploma or GED, pharmacy technician certification, and at least one year of pharmacy technician experience.
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Full job description
Provide and train others to provide exceptional customer service to help people live healthier lives by treating our customers/employees in a fair and ethical manner, providing a safe, clean, inclusive environment, being a responsible member of the community, providing the right products, services, and care at the right time with fair and accurate pricing. Provide direct patient intervention by providing health and wellness services and experiences relevant to the patient as allowable by and consistent with state and federal laws. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety. RESPONSIBILITIES - Support company health and wellness initiatives
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Understand and adhere to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations
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Must be willing and able to adequately perform all essential job functions and tasks of a Pharmacy Senior Certified Technician
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Maintain a current state registration, certification, or license depending on state requirements
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Assist pharmacist in all responsibilities except those that require a pharmacist's professional judgement
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Provide a stellar customer experience while accurately and efficiently completing all steps of reception, data entry, adjudication, and product dispensing
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Train and mentor new hire technician day-to-day training and support for pharmacy associates
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Encourage, monitor and assist new techs through the technician training program
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Ensure execution of department standards by leading by example and delegating as necessary
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Serve as the primary representative for store-wide meetings/huddles
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Help create and manage scheduling and station rotation for the hourly staff per labor forecasts
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Complete the PIC Assistant process walk
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Oversee inventory management including, but not limited to, reconciling orders, returns process, physical inventory preparation
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Act as pharmacy safety subject matter expert being able to recognize areas of opportunity and coach to correctness as appropriate
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Prepare for offsite Business to Business clinics (biometric screenings, vaccinations) to support pharmacist
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Comply with and reinforce all sanitation and safety regulations/guidelines/procedures and programs according to company, local, state, and federal health code regulations; identify unsafe conditions and notify store management
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Comply with local, state and federal regulations; report all illegal activity, including robbery, theft or fraud
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Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
QUALIFICATIONS Minimum
High School Diploma or GED
1 year or more of Pharmacy Tech experience
Pharmacy Technician Certification
Must be professional, dependable, possess positive attitude, good judgment, and be able to gain the support of others to lead a high performing pharmacy team
Selfmotivated, able to organize, prioritize, plan and meet deadlines
Desired
1 year or more of previous experience in a management or supervisory role
$28.50 - $28.50 per hour
How this job compares
Set against the 13,567 open Pharmacy Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$28.5/hr
- Washington median$21–29/hr234 hourly ranges
- US median$18–27/hr10,773 hourly ranges
This rate, $28.50/hr, is 13% above the Washington median midpoint ($25/hr) — in the middle half of Pharmacy Technician hourly ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 252 open Pharmacy Technician jobs in Washington and 13,567 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- Walgreens73 open
- CVS Health46 open
- Walmart34 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Pharmacy Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (2,594 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 4,794 of the 13,567 open Pharmacy Technician jobs (35%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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