Medical Technologist: Lab Diagnostics & Impact

Lake Charles Memorial Health; Louisiana (MO); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Lake Charles Memorial Health is seeking a Medical Technologist to perform medical laboratory tests and analyses, ensuring accurate, timely results to support diagnosis and treatment.

You will conduct quality control, calibrate instruments, perform maintenance, supervise students, and report critical findings, with adherence to licensure and certification requirements. This on-site, full-time role requires strong communication and computer skills in a fast-paced lab environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university.
• Successful completion of a one-year internship in medical technology.
• Louisiana State License as CLS-Generalist; National Certification - MT (ASCP) or equivalent.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Responsibilities

• Performs quality control studies to ensure accuracy of clinical data.
• Performs routine preventative maintenance on assigned instruments and equipment according to established schedule and procedure.
• Verifies instrument functioning by checking and calibrating specific lab instruments and documents data.
• Records on instrument logs any repairs, replacement, and maintenance needed of equipment.
• Conducts chemical, hematological, microbiological, immunological, serological, and immunopharmacological analyses of body fluids submitted for testing to determine presence of normal and abnormal components.
• Analyzes test results and enters findings in computer.
• Trains and supervises students.
• Meets established turnaround times.
• Call critical results within established guidelines.

Skills

Quality control

Instrument calibration

Maintenance

Data entry

Troubleshooting

Training/supervision

Critical result reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

One-year internship in medical technology

Louisiana CLS-Generalist license

MT (ASCP) or equivalent certification

Tools

Laboratory instruments

Job description

Lake Charles Memorial Health is seeking a Medical Technologist to perform medical laboratory tests and analyses, ensuring accurate, timely results to support diagnosis and treatment.

You will conduct quality control, calibrate instruments, perform maintenance, supervise students, and report critical findings, with adherence to licensure and certification requirements. This on-site, full-time role requires strong communication and computer skills in a fast-paced lab environment.