Location: Parkston,SD, USA
**Join the team at Avera!**
**Love Where You Work:** Work at Avera where current employees rate their satisfaction at 94%. Join a team where the career opportunities are endless.
**Culture:** Be part of a multidisciplinary team built on teamwork, with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.
**You Belong at Avera** **:** Competitive pay, front-loaded PTO and options for free health insurance, various shifts to fit your lifestyle and opportunities for career growth.
**Exciting opportunity to Join Avera as a Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT)!**
**Position Highlights:**
+ **Compensation:** Immediately, Avera starts you with great wages, excellent benefits including health, dental, paid time off, and generous retirement.
+ **Student Loan Repayment:** This position may be eligible for Averas Student Loan Repayment Program, which helps you pay off your loans and save money. Each month an extra payment of $167 (up to $10,000) from Avera will help pay down your principal balance faster.
+ **Career Growth** **opportunities!**
+ **Be a part of a rewarding team while providing outstanding care to a variety of patients.**
**Job Summary**
The medical laboratory technician is accountable for performing a variety of clinical laboratory tests, procedures, and related duties. Utilizes scientific principles as well as technical, procedural, and problem-solving aptitudes for day-to-day laboratory technical operations, quality control, quality assurance, procedure/instrument maintenance and corrective action, test result correlation, and clinical laboratory related continuing education.
**Education and/or Experience**
+ Associate's degree in Medical Laboratory Technology from an accredited two year college program or technical school required.
+ Six months to one year of related experience or training preferred.
**Certification**
+ Certification as Medical Laboratory Technician from the ASCP, AMT, or equivalent required within 12 months of hire.
**Work Schedule**
+ Weekdays: 6:30am-3:00pm, 8:30am-5:00pm; 48 hours every 2 weeks
+ Every 5 th weekend
+ Every 5 th holiday
+ Weekday/Weekend call schedule
**Pay**
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
+ $22.00 - $31.75 per hour
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