Medical Laboratory Scientist II
Pasadena, TXJob$34–50.57/hrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
The Medical Laboratory Scientist performs complex laboratory testing and reports results that support patient diagnosis and treatment. The role analyzes specimens, operates and maintains instruments, interprets results, and conducts quality control across laboratory disciplines. It also supports department workflow, equipment validation, staff and student training, proficiency testing, and inventory management while maintaining accuracy and regulatory adherence.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Medical Lab Scientist, you will be a critical diagnostic expert, performing complex laboratory tests to ensure accurate, timely results vital for patient diagnosis and treatment.
Every day, you will execute a wide range of analytical procedures across various lab disciplines (hematology, chemistry, microbiology, etc.). You'll analyze specimens, operate/maintain instruments, interpret results, and conduct quality control, providing crucial data for clinical decisions.
To be successful in this role, you must demonstrate a strong scientific foundation, advanced technical proficiency, exceptional problem-solving skills, and meticulous attention to detail. Your paramount commitment will be to accuracy and regulatory adherence.
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Performs and reports waived, moderately complex, and highly complex test procedures on patient specimens adhering to the Section’s Standard Operating Procedures to ensure accurate and timely reporting Provides excellent patient care through clinical correlation of results, identification of patterns of bias, rapid notification of appropriate caregivers of critical values, and completion of testing within established turn-around-time limits
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Acts as a ‘group leader’ by assisting other staff members in work duties as needed to ensure a smooth workflow in the department.
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Ensures that major automated equipment is operational by performing required maintenance, calibration and troubleshooting procedures; including contacting of instrument vendor for assistance or repair. May receive or have extended instrument training to function as an instrument lead for the department. Trains new employees and students in the department. Performs required calibration and quality control procedures and maintains records to ensure tests are being performed within established parameters. Assists department Technical Coordinator or Supervisor in preparation of QC and calibration reports, ensuring that records are complete and accurate.
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Performs proficiency testing as assigned and review results with laboratory clinical leaders
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Assists Technical Coordinator or Supervisor with test or equipment validations. Helps with training, validation records and documentation.
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Participates in opportunities for continuing education and/or teaching, training according to the Section Performance Standards to enhance technical skills of students, trainees, coworkers, and self Responsible for inventory of supplies, including providing assistance with monitoring supplies, ordering, and placing received supplies into storage. May assists department inventory supplies as primary inventory control
Job Requirements
Required
- Bachelors Of Science in a biological or chemical science as defined by CLIA. and 2 years experience in a clinical laboratory., upon hire
Preferred
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Where You'll Work
St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center provides inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services to residents of Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte, Baytown, and Clear Lake. The facility includes 53 medical/surgical beds, eight ICU beds and three endoscopy rooms, and offers a range of primary and specialized services—wound care, general surgery, gastroenterology, occupational health, heart and vascular, women’s services, diagnostic imaging, outpatient rehab services, and sleep disorders.
Pay Range
$34.00 - $50.57 / hour
We are an equal opportunity employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,164 open Medical Laboratory Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$34–50.57/hr
- Texas median$31–46/hr21 hourly ranges
- US median$30–47/hr512 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $42.29/hr, is 10% above the Texas median midpoint ($38/hr) — in the middle half of Medical Laboratory Scientist hourly ranges in Texas.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 110 open Medical Laboratory Scientist jobs in Texas and 1,164 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- HCA Healthcare25 open
- Houston Methodist19 open
- Baylor Scott & White Health17 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Medical Laboratory Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (405 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 537 of the 1,164 open Medical Laboratory Scientist jobs (46%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 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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