Medical Technologist
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Job overview
The Medical Laboratory Scientist, Medical Laboratory Technician, and Technologist in Microbiology provide accurate and timely clinical diagnostic information to healthcare professionals to support high-quality patient care and customer service. The role performs routine and esoteric procedures, maintains laboratory equipment and quality records, troubleshoots testing issues, and trains students and new employees.
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Full job description
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Area of Interest: Laboratory
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FTE/Hours per pay period: 1.0
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Department: Ref Lab Microbiology- Meth
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Shift: 3p-11:30p rotating every 5th weekend
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Job ID: 188236
Overview
The Medical Laboratory Scientist, Medical Laboratory Technician and Technologist in Microbiology(MT/MLS/M)provide accurate and timely clinical diagnostic information to healthcare professionals in order to ensure high quality patient care and customer service
Why UnityPoint Health?
At UnityPoint Health, you matter. We’re proud to be recognized as a Top 150 Place to Work in Healthcare by Becker's Healthcare several years in a row for our commitment to our team members.
Our competitive Total Rewards program offers benefits options that align with your needs and priorities, no matter what life stage you’re in. Here are just a few:
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Expect paid time off, parental leave, 401K matching and an employee recognition program .
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Dental and health insurance, paid holidays, short and long-term disability and more. We even offer pet insurance for your four-legged family members.
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Early access to earned wages with Daily Pay, tuition reimbursement to help further your career and adoption assistance to help you grow your family .
With a collective goal to champion a culture of belonging where everyone feels valued and respected, we honor the ways people are unique and embrace what brings us together.
And, we believe equipping you with support and development opportunities is a vital part of delivering an exceptional employment experience.
Find a fulfilling career and make a difference with UnityPoint Health.
Responsibilities
Demonstrates the knowledge that patient and workplace safety is a priority by preventing errors, accidents and infections and reporting potential or actual concerns immediately. Obtains, labels, and delivers specimens in accordance with standards. Supports, participates in and complies with LEAN work and productivity standards.
Prioritizes, performs, judges, and reports routine and esoteric procedures within established time guidelines.
Maintains equipment, inventory, and work area, and documents appropriately.
Performs, evaluates, and documents advanced troubleshooting and problem-solving activities; liaisons with clients and nursing personnel, and interprets data for appropriate health professionals.
Instructs, trains, and evaluates students and new employees
Documents and maintains quality control (QC), proficiency testing, quality assurance, and other records to meet regulatory requirements.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Science must be obtained which is sufficient to allow certification under one of the Medical Technologist (MT)/Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS)/Technologist in Microbiology(M) Certifying Agencies’ examination routes. Must meet Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) requirements to perform highly complex testing. Additionally, any regulatory agency personnel standards, which are applicable to the position, must be met. Certifying Agencies include but are not limited to the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Board of Certification (BOC), American Medical Technologist (AMT) Certification, and American Association of Bioanalysts (AAB) Board of Registry (ABOR). As long as these are met, any exam may be taken.
Experience in clinical laboratory disciplines sufficient to allow certification under one of the Medical Technologist (MT)/Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS)/Technologist in Microbiology Certifying Agencies’ examination routes is required.
Technologist/Scientist/Technologist in Microbiology (MT/MLS) Certification within one (1) year of employment
How this job compares
Set against the 1,208 open Medical Technologist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$70–104K/yr42 salary ranges
- US median$32–46/hr426 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 23 open Medical Technologist jobs in Iowa and 1,208 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Iowa
- UnityPoint Health (this employer)9 open
- Trinity Health6 open
- Avera2 open
- Experience
- Medical Technologist postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (497 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 586 of the 1,208 open Medical Technologist jobs (49%) ask for a bachelor's degree 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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