Laboratory Assistant III
UTICA, NYFull-time$22–28/hrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The Laboratory Assistant III supports technical personnel under the direction of laboratory leadership. The role assists with assigned tasks, instrument maintenance, and inventory; receives and identifies patients; collects, transports, and processes specimens; and helps ensure accurate, timely laboratory workflows. The position also includes maintaining supplies and work areas, following safety and sanitation practices, and supporting department operations.
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Laboratory Assistant III
Department: CLINICAL LABORATORY
Job Summary
Under the direction of the Laboratory Medical Director and the Director of Laboratory Services, and Laboratory Manager. Assists technical personnel with assigned tasks, instrument maintenance, and inventory. Receives patients, correctly identifies patients, collects specimens from patients, transports specimens, and processes specimens.
Core Job Responsibilities
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Identifying appropriate priority of tasks, establishes and maintains lines of communication and rapport within the department and other hospital personnel
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Demonstrates knowledge on computer software and specimen management
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Ensures priority of requests, arranging workload to provide for optimal patient care
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Manages inventory
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Receives in and distributes reagents and supplies
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Assists in Medical Center sponsored blood drives
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Adheres to confidentiality of patient information with interdepartmental and external request Demonstrates ethical, honest and professionalism with all internal and external consumers
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Ensures accuracy with specimen receiving, issuing blood products, and performs instrument maintenance following standard procedures
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Uses department equipment (telephone, computers, software) appropriately
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Ensures timely turnaround of patient results (turnaround times, unfinished work list(s), distribution of results, communication with consumers)
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Follows up on internal and external departmental request
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Participates in educational opportunities and identifies area of departmental process improvement Correct tests are drawn and collected and orders are checked against computer system for accuracy and discrepancies resolved
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Performs specimen collection as needed
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Adheres to envoi mental standards for patient/visitor/staff safety
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Practices hand washing and sanitation practices
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Reports unsafe conditions and responds appropriately to all codes and drills
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Practices standard precautions with all chemical and specimen handling
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Stocks and re-orders supplies
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Cleans and disinfect work areas, refrigerators, freezers, incubators, water baths, plasma thawers, etc.
Education/Experience Requirements
Required: Minimum 2 year degree in Science - such as Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry
Preferred: Phlebotomy work experience, lab assistant work experience, or other healthcare experience preferred
Licensure/Certification Requirements
Required: None
Disclaimer
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.
Job Details
Req Id 99316
Department CLINICAL LABORATORY
Shift Days
Shift Hours Worked 12.50
FTE 0.94
Work Schedule CWAT-UFCSM - 12 HR
Employee Status A1 - Full-Time
Union 2005 - CWA
Pay Range $22 - $28 per hour
How this job compares
Set against the 743 open Laboratory Assistant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$22–28/hr
- New York median$19–23/hr43 hourly ranges
- US median$19–26/hr358 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $25/hr, is 19% above the New York median midpoint ($21/hr) — in the middle half of Laboratory Assistant hourly ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 57 open Laboratory Assistant jobs in New York and 743 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- NYU Langone Medical Center10 open
- SUNY Upstate Medical University9 open
- Kaleida Health4 open
- Experience
- Laboratory Assistant postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (245 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for an associate degree; 18 of the 743 open Laboratory Assistant jobs (2%) ask for an associate degree 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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