
Extraction Laboratory Technician II
Santa Rosa, CAJob$18.7–37.4/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
Abbott’s Extraction Laboratory Technician II prepares specimens for routine drug testing at its Toxicology Division in Santa Rosa, California, following laboratory Standard Operating Procedures. The role involves specimen identification and preparation, extraction of analytes for instrumental analysis, loading batches onto analytical instruments, and maintaining Chain of Custody documentation. The posting requires a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, analytical chemistry, or a related field and the ability to work safely with specimens, chemicals, equipment, and instruments.
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Full job description
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
Extraction Laboratory Technician II
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
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Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
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Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
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An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
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Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
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A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
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A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
Abbott Rapid and Molecular Diagnostics is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for treatment and management of diseases and other conditions.
The position of Extraction Laboratory Technician II is within our Toxicology Division located in Santa Rosa, CA. This role will prepare specimens for routine drug testing following the laboratory's Standard Operating Procedures
What You’ll Work On
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Read, understand, and follow written Standard Operating Procedures
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Correctly identify specimens scheduled for analysis and assemble batches as necessary
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Pour or quantitatively pipette biological specimens and standards in varying volumes (forensic specimens)
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Prepare and/or extract analytes of interest for subsequent instrumental analysis (forensic specimens)
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Load prepared batches onto analytical instruments and initiate pre‑approved analytical runs following established SOPs
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May create Hamilton batches for aliquots merged from different screening batches
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Maintain proper and adequate Chain of Custody batch documentation
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Communication with supervisors and prompt escalation of emerging challenges
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Maintain and promote a safe healthful environment for self and co-workers
Required Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree in chemistry, analytical chemistry, or a related field
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The ability to work safely with biological specimens, chemicals, equipment, and instruments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with biological specimens and/or analytical instruments (LC/MS/MS and/or GC/MS)
Apply Now (https://www.jobs.abbott/us/en)
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews.
The base pay for this position is $18.70 – $37.40 per hour. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email [email protected]
How this job compares
Set against the 2,153 open Laboratory Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$18.7–37.4/hr
- California median$25–30/hr108 hourly ranges
- US median$22–26/hr1,036 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $28.05/hr, is 3% above the California median midpoint ($27/hr) — in the middle half of Laboratory Technician hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 153 open Laboratory Technician jobs in California and 2,153 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Actalent18 open
- University of Southern California13 open
- Eurofins8 open
- Experience
- 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 (884 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 287 of the 2,153 open Laboratory Technician jobs (13%) 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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