Pharmacy Technician
Carmichael, CAJob$35.21–41.22/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Pharmacy Technician prepares and dispenses medications for patients under a pharmacist’s guidance, with accuracy and patient safety as priorities. The role includes preparing IV admixtures, filling unit dose and floor stock orders, and following narcotic sign-out and restocking procedures. The posting requires pharmacy technician certification and California registration, with several alternative experience pathways. Experience in a USP 797 cleanroom and preparation of intravenous and hazardous medications is preferred.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Pharmacy Tech, you'll help our patients feel better by providing safe and effective medications to them. You'll help our doctors and nurses feel better knowing that you are providing accurate and timely medication to patients.
Every day, you will build trust by being extremely thorough and accurate at all times. Patient safety is your top priority, so you do everything you can to ensure all prescriptions are authentic, prepared correctly both in medication type and dosing, and are dispensed appropriately, under the Pharmacist's guidance.
To be successful in this role, you follow all safety protocols, including those intended to prevent infection, and you keep a clean work area at all times. You are eager to learn or help out in any way needed to keep the pharmacy running smoothly and get our patients their medications.
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Prepares IV admixtures accurately using aseptic technique and properly labels, logs and initials final product.
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Measurement procedure: accuracy documented on daily IV shift Quality Assurance log.
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Fills unit dose orders timely and accurately, including extemporaneous compounding.
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Omnicell/floor stock medications are filled accurately and in a timely manner.
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Follows department narcotic sign-out and restocking procedure including investigation and documentation of discrepancies.
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Measured by compliance per year.
Job Requirements
Required
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Certified PharmacyTechnician from the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board.
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Registration with the California State Board of Pharmacy as a registered technician.
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One (1) year of acute care hospital pharmacy practice experience or a six (6) week Pharmacy Technician externship at a Dignity Health Sacramento Division Hospital.
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Or five (5) years of recent Retail Pharmacy experience processing TARs and PAs (within the last three (3) years).
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Or one (1) year of recent experience in Pharmacy Managed Care (within the last 3 years).
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Pharmacy Technician: CA.
Preferred
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Completion of an ASHP accreditedPharmacy Technician program.
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Experience working in a USP 797 cleanroom.
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Experience in the preparation of intravenous admixtures and antineoplastic/chemotherapeutic/hazardous medications.
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1967, Dignity Health - Mercy San Juan Medical Center is a 377-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Carmichael, California. Serving over 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, heart care, cancer care, women’s health, and neurology. Additionally, Mercy San Juan Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Comprehensive Stroke Center, the highest level of stroke care certification awarded by The Joint Commission.
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Pay Range
$35.21 - $41.22 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 13,458 open Pharmacy Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$35.21–41.22/hr
- California median$20–29/hr757 hourly ranges
- US median$18–28/hr10,767 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $38.22/hr, is 58% above the California median midpoint ($24/hr) — in the top quarter of Pharmacy Technician hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 831 open Pharmacy Technician jobs in California and 13,458 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- CVS Health244 open
- Walgreens237 open
- Walmart99 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 (2,653 postings).
- Education
- 181 of the 13,458 open Pharmacy Technician jobs (1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Pay, requirements and demand for Pharmacy Technician jobs
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 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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