Laboratory Assistant
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Job overview
The Laboratory Assistant performs technical and supportive laboratory duties under the direction of the Laboratory Manager and Director. Work may include blood specimen collection and processing, telephone support, computer data input and retrieval, specimen preparation and handling in Microbiology, processing specimens for reference laboratories, and inventory and ordering.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
Under the direction of the Laboratory Manager and Director, this Laboratory Assistant position is assigned the responsibility of various duties which are technical and supportive in nature. These may include the basic duties such as blood specimen collection specimen processing answering telephones computer data input/retrieval and other duties as assigned. In addition to the above the Lab Assistant may be assigned to perform specimen preparatory handling in Microbiology processing of specimens for reference laboratories and inventory/ordering.
Job Requirements
Required
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High school diploma or equivalency.
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Knowledge of medical terminology.
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Must be certified/licensed Phlebotomist in the State of California.
Preferred
- One year full time experience in an acute care facility Laboratory
Position represented by CHEU
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1926, Dignity Health - Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center is a 334-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital. Serving over 70,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level III NICU, heart care, wound care and surgical services. Additionally, Glendale Memorial Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center and a SRC Center of Excellence for Robotic Surgery and Colorectal Surgery. One Community. One Mission. One California (https://youtu.be/RrPuiSnALJY?si=pvQgPZ6ZWZM60TPV)
Pay Range
$34.42 - $34.42 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 746 open Laboratory Assistant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$34.42/hr
- California median$27–38/hr67 hourly ranges
- US median$19–26/hr352 hourly ranges
This rate, $34.42/hr, is 8% above the California median midpoint ($32/hr) — in the middle half of Laboratory Assistant hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 88 open Laboratory Assistant jobs in California and 746 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Sutter Health22 open
- Kaiser Permanente13 open
- University of Southern California10 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 (240 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 484 of the 746 open Laboratory Assistant jobs (65%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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