Lead Technician – Blood Component Manufacturing - Baltimore, MD

MSCCN; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 32,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

The American Red Cross is seeking a Lead Technician in Blood Components Manufacturing. You will process blood units into transfusable components, scan units, and ensure compliant production, labeling, storage, and sample tube management.

The role requires maintaining accurate documentation, meeting production goals, and ensuring safety. You may train staff, supervise operations, and work a variable schedule including weekends and holidays to support hospital needs.

Qualifications

• High School or equivalent required; 4+ years of related regulatory, laboratory, or manufacturing experience preferred.
• Good computer skills and ability to use various programs and lab equipment; attention to detail and accurate documentation.
• Strong communication and teamwork; able to work independently with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Meet quality and production goals; maintain accurate documentation.
• Perform inventory management throughout manufacturing and distribution.
• Data entry and operation of software for component production, labeling, storage, and sample tubes.
• Analyze information from other departments to meet deadlines.
• Perform complex tasks such as pooled product manufacturing, freezing, and pathogen reduction of blood products.
• Communicate effectively with internal customers, vendors, and volunteers.
• May work a variable schedule including weekends/holidays to meet hospital needs.
• Assist in supervising and training staff when needed.

Skills

Attention to detail

Good communication

Teamwork

Computer skills

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Associate's degree in applied science (preferred)

Tools

Laboratory equipment

Computer programs

Job description

ATTENTION MILITARY AFFILIATED JOB SEEKERS

Our organization works with partner companies to source qualified talent for their open roles.

The following position is available to Veterans, Transitioning Military, National Guard and Reserve Members, Military Spouses, Wounded Warriors, and their Caregivers.

Unless specifically stated otherwise, this role is "On-Site" at the location detailed in the job post.

Joining The American Red Cross is like nothing else – it’s as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world’s largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.

When you choose to be a force for good, you’ll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life’s work with an ongoing mission that’s bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you’re cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work.

Where Your Career is a Force for Good!

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

As a Lead Tech in Blood components manufacturing, you are responsible for manufacturing and processing blood products after the units have been received from the donors.This will involve scanning in the units of blood, processing the units into transfusable components, (red cells, platelets, and expressing plasma) and leukoreducing red blood cells.

As a Red Cross Team member, you will take care of your team members – show up for every shift and give 100% while you’re there. Interact in a positive, proactive, and customer-focused manner with both internal and external customers, demonstrating care and compassion at all times.

Key Responsibilities:

• Meet the quality and quantity production goals, while prioritizing workload expectations and maintaining accurate documentation
• Perform good inventory management practices throughout the manufacturing and distribution process.
• Perform data entry and operate the computer programs associated with component production, labeling, storage, and sample tube management.
• Analyze and make decisions based on visual inspection and information provided from other departments to meet time.
• Perform complex manufacturing tasks such as pooled product manufacturing, freeze, wash, or deglycerolizing of blood products, and pathogen reduction.
• Communicate effectively with internal customers, vendors, and volunteers.
• May require flexibility to work a variable schedule that includes weekends & holidays to meet the needs of our hospitals
• Assume operational supervisory responsibilities, as well as participating in the training of staffwhen needed.
• The aforementioned responsibilities of the position describe the general nature and level of work and are not an exhaustive list.

Standard Schedule:

The schedule is 7am-3:30pm Monday through Friday with rotating weekends. The shift will rotate on the weekends as well.

Pay Information:

The pay rate is $23.46 per hour. There is also a weekend premium.

Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities

• High School or equivalent required.
• Minimum 4 years of related experience in a regulatory, laboratory, or manufacturing environment or equivalent combination of education and related experience preferred.
• Good computer skills, ability to use a wide variety of programs and laboratory equipment,attention to detail, accurate documentation, and good decision-making skills.
• Good communication skills, with the ability to work on a team, as well as independently with minimal supervision

WHAT WILL GIVE YOU THE COMPETITIVE EDGE:

• Associate’s degree in an applied science, preferred (or equivalent combination of experience and education)

Physical Requirements:

Frequently lift and/or move objects 10-50lbs unassisted.Frequently required to push carts weighing up to 100 pounds on flat flooring or ramps. Able to withstand temperatures in a typical blood banking environment including refrigerators and freezers. Position may require climbing of step ladders.