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Pharmacy Tech I - Full Time, DAYS

Albany Medical Center

Albany, NYFull-time$44–57K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$44–57K/yr
Location
Albany, NY
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Pharmacy Technician I assists pharmacists with routine duties that do not require professional judgment. The role supports medication distribution by ordering, stocking, preparing, packaging, labeling, and delivering medications, as well as maintaining records and operating pharmacy equipment. The technician also handles requisitions and calls, maintains the pharmacy environment, works with computer-based applications, and trains and orients staff.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Medication DistributionMedication PreparationPharmacy Equipment OperationFunctional MathematicsCommunicationCustomer ServiceWork PracticesEfficiencyAccuracySelf-InitiativeStandingWalkingLiftingCarryingPushingPullingClimbingBalancingStoopingKneelingCrouchingCrawlingReachingHandlingGraspingTalkingHearingRepetitive MotionEye-Hand-Foot Coordination

Qualifications

High School Diploma or GED

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Full job description

43 New Scotland Avenue Albany, NY 12208

Full time

72050

Department/Unit:

Pharmacy

Work Shift:

Day (United States of America)

Salary Range:

$43,599.00 - $56,679.00

The Pharmacy technician assists and supports the pharmacists. Technicians order and stock medications, transport medications, prepare medications under the supervision of a pharmacists, participate in the coordination of medication distribution. The Technician utilizes medication packaging and dispensing machines and other technologies.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Assist pharmacists by performing routine duties that do not require professional judgment.

  • Maintain patient profiles and other records

  • Handle intra- and inter- departmental requisitions

  • Handle stock receipt/storage/control

  • Package and label medications

  • Assist in preparation of medications

  • Deliver medications

  • Clean and maintain Pharmacy environment and equipment

  • Operate drug dispensing, packaging and preparation machinery / equipment

  • Answers and appropriately handles telephone calls to pharmacy

  • Completes appropriate documentation

  • Work with computer-based applications

  • Train and orient staff

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma/G.E.D. - required

  • Functional mathematics skills

  • Good communication skills

  • Good customer service skills

  • Good work practices

  • Able work efficiently and accurately in a dynamic and complex environment.

  • Self- initiating

Physical Demands

  • Standing - Constantly

  • Walking - Constantly

  • Sitting - Rarely

  • Lifting - Frequently

  • Carrying - Frequently

  • Pushing - Occasionally

  • Pulling - Occasionally

  • Climbing - Occasionally

  • Balancing - Occasionally

  • Stooping - Frequently

  • Kneeling - Frequently

  • Crouching - Frequently

  • Crawling - Occasionally

  • Reaching - Frequently

  • Handling - Frequently

  • Grasping - Frequently

  • Feeling - Constantly

  • Talking - Constantly

  • Hearing - Constantly

  • Repetitive Motions - Constantly

  • Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination - Constantly

Thank you for your interest in Albany Medical Center!Albany Medical Center is an equal opportunity employer.

Thank you for your interest in Albany Med Health System!

Albany Med Health System is an equal opportunity employer.

This role may require access to information considered sensitive to Albany Med Health System, its patients, affiliates, and partners, including but not limited to HIPAA Protected Health Information and other information regulated by Federal and New York State statutes. Workforce members are expected to ensure that:

Access to information is based on a “need to know” and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties. Use or disclosure shall not exceed the minimum amount of information needed to accomplish an intended purpose. Reasonable efforts, consistent with Albany Med Health System policies and standards, shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.

Albany Medical Center is the centerpiece of medicine, research, and medical education in New York’s CapitalRegion and is the area's largest private employer with more than 10,000 employees.

Albany Medical Center offers excellent career opportunities in a wide range of roles in both patient care andadministration. We value all our staff members and offer outstanding employee benefits (https://www.albanymed.org/careers/albany-medical-center-careers/employee-benefits-and-advantages/) including:

  • Excellent health care coverage with no copay at Albany Medical Center providers

  • A wide array of services and programs to support emotional, physical, and mental wellbeing

Anchored in the state’s historic capital city, Albany Medical Center offers a full range of inpatient and outpatient careand is home to the region’s largest hospital, only Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma centers, and only children’s hospital. Thedowntown campus also offers opportunities at Albany Medical College.

Albany Medical Center (https://www.albanymed.org/albany/) , along with Columbia Memorial Health (http://columbiamemorialhealth.org/) , Glens Falls Hospital (http://glensfallshospital.org/) , Saratoga Hospital (http://saratogahospital.org/) , and the Visiting Nurses (https://www.albanymed.org/visitingnurses/) , form the Albany Med Health System, serving more than three million people over 25 counties.

How this job compares

Set against the 13,525 open Pharmacy Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$44–57K/yr
  • New York median$47–70K/yr22 salary ranges
  • US median$45–72K/yr215 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $50K, is 14% below the New York median midpoint ($58K) — in the middle half of Pharmacy Technician salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 733 open Pharmacy Technician jobs in New York and 13,525 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
Pharmacy Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (2,591 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 4,705 of the 13,525 open Pharmacy Technician jobs (35%) ask for a high school diploma 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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