Medical Lab Technician | St. Cloud Hospital
Saint Cloud, MNFull-time$26.74–40.11/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
CentraCare seeks a Medical Lab Technician or Medical Lab Scientist for a full-time generalist role at St. Cloud Hospital. The position works across multiple laboratory areas, including chemistry, hematology, and either microbiology or transfusion services. Laboratory professionals perform tests on body fluids and tissue samples and interpret results to help provide information about patients’ health.
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Job Shift: Day
Assignment Category: Full-time regular
Hours per Pay Period: 80
Work From Home 100%: No
Pay Ranges: 26.74-40.11
Job Identification: 232466
Job Category: Technical
Job Schedule: Full time
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Enjoy a rewarding career at CentraCare as a Medical Lab Technician or Medical Lab Scientist!
Laboratory professionals are key members of today’s health care team, and quality medical care depends on them. Every day, nurses, physicians, and other medical workers rely on laboratory professionals to perform tests on body fluids and tissue samples, interpret the results and help provide a complete picture of a patient’s health. Without this precise and valuable information, medicine would simply be guesswork.
This position is a generalist position working in multiple areas of the laboratory including chemistry, hematology and either microbiology or transfusion services.
Schedule:
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Full-time | 80 hours every two weeks
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Days | Days/Evening rotations | Days start 5-7am and evenings start 2pm-2:30pm | 8-hour shifts
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Rotating weekends and holidays.
Pay and Benefits:
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Starting pay begins at $28.04 per hour and increases with experience
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Pay range: $26.74- $40.11 per hour
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$10,000 Hiring Bonus or $15,000 Student Loan Repayment! $5,000 Relocation bonus (if applicable)!
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Full time benefits (https://jobs.centracare.com/us/en/benefits) : medical, dental, PTO, retirement, employee discounts and more!
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Tuition reimbursement and college grant programs available
Qualifications:
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High School diploma or equivalent.
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Associate degree from an accredited Clinical/Medical Laboratory Technician (CLT / MLT) program New Graduate’s degree must be validated within 2 months post-graduation.
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ASCP-BOC certified within 6 months with first exam completed within 3 months of hire, with certification verified within six weeks of exam.
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Recent experience of one or more years in large acute care facility preferred
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Transportation available for off campus laboratory related activities may be required.
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A valid Minnesota driver’s license, a driving record in good standing, and the minimum amount of insurance liability coverage may be required.
To be eligible for the hiring bonus, student loan repayment or relocation bonus, you must be an external candidate who is hired into an eligible full time or part time benefited position. Previous CentraCare employees qualify if they have not worked for CentraCare for at least 9 months at the date of hire. CentraCare hiring incentives to include but not limited to, hiring and relocation bonuses may be discontinued at any time. Relocation bonus must meet distance requirements. Full-time or Part-time status may impact bonus amount.
CentraCare has made a commitment to diversity in its workforce. All individuals including, but not limited to, individuals with disabilities, are encouraged to apply. CentraCare is an EEO/AA employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 737 open Medical Laboratory Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$26.74–40.11/hr
- Minnesota median$25–37/hr31 hourly ranges
- US median$26–43/hr288 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $33.42/hr, is 3% above the Minnesota median midpoint ($32/hr) — in the middle half of Medical Laboratory Technician hourly ranges in Minnesota.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 40 open Medical Laboratory Technician jobs in Minnesota and 737 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Minnesota
- Essentia Health8 open
- HealthPartners4 open
- CentraCare (this employer)3 open
- Experience
- Medical Laboratory Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (181 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for an associate degree; 359 of the 737 open Medical Laboratory Technician jobs (49%) 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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