Med Laboratory Technician (R00053305)
Part-timeThe University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC)
Grenada, MSFull-time / Part-timeSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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The Medical Laboratory Technician performs routine medical laboratory testing to support the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. The role collects blood or tissue samples and conducts assigned clinical laboratory tests, including work in hematology, microbiology, immunology, clinical chemistry, and urinalysis. It also handles specimens, operates and maintains laboratory equipment, and follows safety and infection-control practices.
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Job Requisition ID: R00053305 Job Category: Allied Health Organization: Grenada Lab Location/s: UMMC-Grenada Job Title: Medical Laboratory Technician - Grenada - Full-Time/ Part-Time Job Summary: To perform routine medical laboratory test for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease. To collect blood or tissue samples, observing the principles of asepsis. Education & Experience Associate's degree in a Laboratory Science or Medical Laboratory Technology and eligibility for certification as a Medical Laboratory Technician by a recognized certifying agency. Certifications, Licenses or Registration Required: N/A Knowledge, Skills & Abilities RESPONSIBILITIES Collects, processes, and handles blood and/or other biological specimens in accordance with established procedures; instructs patients in the appropriate collection of samples. Conducts clinical laboratory tests in the areas of hematology, microbiology, immunology, clinical chemistry, and urinalysis, as assigned. Conducts chemical analysis of body fluids such as blood, urine, and spinal fluid using microscope or automatic analysis. Conducts blood tests for transfusion purposes and blood counts. Develops and maintains cell/tissue cultures for testing purposes; examines cells to locate abnormalities. Prepares volumetric solutions and reagents to be combined with samples, following standardized formulas or experimental procedures. Sets up, adjusts, maintains, and cleans laboratory equipment; promotes safety, environmental, and/or infection control practices and methods. Performs other duties as assigned. Physical and Environmental Demands Requires occasional exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, constant exposure to bio-hazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, frequent bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds, occasional crouching/stooping, frequent pushing/pulling, frequent reaching, frequent sitting, frequent standing, frequent twisting, and frequent walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more) Time Type: FLSA Designation/Job Exempt: No Pay Class: Hourly FTE %: 100
How this job compares
Set against the 725 open Medical Laboratory Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$50–74K/yr21 salary ranges
- US median$26–43/hr286 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 12 open Medical Laboratory Technician jobs in Mississippi and 725 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- 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; 358 of the 725 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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