Lab Technologist - Automated Lab - 40 hrs - Nights

Trinity Health Of New England; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance Coverage—starting Day

Generous Shift Differentials

Award-winning Hospitals andDepartments

Job summary

Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center in Hartford, CT, is hiring a Lab Technologist to perform high- and moderate-complexity analyses in a hospital laboratory, joining our automated lab team.

You will handle labeling, centrifugation, and storage, maintaining instruments and reagents while meeting turnaround times and regulatory standards. Shift: Night, 40 hours weekly, with weekends and holidays rotating.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in chemical, physical, or biological science; foreign degrees require equivalency evaluation.
• Lab experience preferred but not required.
• Excellent communication to interact with patients and health care team.
• Analytical ability to interpret data and report results.
• Motor skills for calibration, sample handling, and instrument maintenance.
• Authorized to work in the U.S.; no visa sponsorship offered.

Responsibilities

• Perform high- and moderate-complexity tests per procedures.
• Ensure correct labeling, centrifugation, aliquoting, and storage of samples.
• Maintain instrumentation and related documentation.
• Manage reagents, QC materials, and supplies inventory.
• Analyze patient specimens within specified turnaround times.
• Identify instrument or procedure issues and act per protocols.

Skills

Analytical ability

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Fine motor skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in chemistry/biology/physical science

Degree equivalency documentation for foreign graduates

Tools

Laboratory instruments

Pipetting

Computer workstations

Job description

Employment Type: Full time Shift: Night Shift Description: Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center, Lab Hartford CT

We’re Hiring a Lab Technologist!

Ready to thrive in a dynamic, high-energy environment? Join our Automated Lab Team at Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center in Hartford, CT, and bring your exceptional talents to a team that makes a real impact—every single day.

Join a team where your expertise drives diagnosis, innovation, and teaching. As a key member of our clinical laboratory, you will perform high complexity testing without direct supervision in a hospital laboratory setting. Processes incoming samples by ensuring correct labeling, computer login, centrifugation, aliquoting, and storage.

What you will do:

• Moderate and high complexity tests using a variety of laboratory techniques.
• Performs tests according to established laboratory procedures with acceptable accuracy and precision.
• Develops and demonstrates knowledge and skills pertaining to instrumentation, procedures, and processes.
• Performs maintenance according to scheduled frequency with complete documentation.
• Performs tasks to assist with overall operation of laboratory service according to laboratory policies and procedures and in compliance with regulatory guidelines.
• Takes responsibility for all inventory of reagents, quality control materials and supplies associated with assigned test to ensure adequate materials are available for next analysis.
• Accurately analyzes patient specimens on instruments and/or by specified manual methodologies within specified turnaround times.
• Identifies problems with instrumentation, methodology, specimens, supplies, or results and take action as outlined in established protocols.

Position Hours:

• 40 hours, Night Shift, rotating wknds/holidays

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree in a chemical, physical or biological science. Foreign graduates require degree equivalency evaluation documentation.
• Lab experience preferred, but not required.
• Must possess excellent communication skills (direct telephone) to interact with patients and other members of the health care team. Possesses hearing acuity to be able to communicate with others, communicate using the telephone and be able to monitor the many sounds produced by clinical instrumentation.
• Work requires analytical ability to collect information from diverse sources, apply professional principles in performing various analyses and summarizing the information and data in order to interpret and report results.
• Must possess sufficient motor skills in order to perform delicate tasks such as calibration and maintenance of laboratory instruments, perform precise sample procedures, pipetting of samples and use of computer workstations.
• Applicants for this position must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor an employment visa for this position

Position Highlights and Benefits:

• Our Mission and Core Values
• Great benefits and Health Insurance Coverage—starting Day One!
• Generous Shift Diffs
• Award-winning Hospitals and Departments

Ministry/Facility Information:

Saint Francis Hospital has been an anchor institution in Connecticut since 1897. Saint Francis, a member of Trinity Health Of New England and Trinity Health, one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation. Saint Francis Hospital, a Level 1 Trauma Center, is a 617 bed hospital and a major teaching hospital. Other Saint Francis entities include the Comprehensive Women’s Health Center, the Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute, and the Smilow Cancer Hospital.

Our Commitment

Rooted in our Mission and Core Values, we honor the dignity of every person and recognize the unique perspectives, experiences, and talents each colleague brings. By finding common ground and embracing our differences, we grow stronger together and deliver more compassionate, person-centered care. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.