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Medical Lab Tech

Wellstar Health System·Dallas, Georgia

Full Time·On Site·2-5 yrs·Posted 15 days ago
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About the role

Perform laboratory tests with limited skill and responsibility while maintaining high accuracy in quality assurance and proficiency testing. Analyze and report lab data accurately and timely, ensuring compliance with safety standards and organizational policies.

How would you like to work in a place where your contributions and ideas are valued? A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what's possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people's lives.

Work Shift: Night (United States of America)

Job summary

This role, under the general supervision of the Supervisor, Manager or Laboratory Director, permits the Medical Laboratory Technician to perform tests requiring limited skill and responsibility and exercise independent judgment minimally, as competency is demonstrated.

Accuracy

Maintains acceptable accuracy in-patient, quality assurance, proficiency and competency testing.

Critical

Thinking: Uses clinical/theoretical knowledge to analyze, investigate, interpret and report lab data.

Job

Knowledge: Maintains current personal training, education and practice of policies and procedures.

Productivity

Practices organizational skills for efficient of time, materials, cost and availability of lab data.

Communication

Practices information monitoring, investigation, resolution and hand-off to team members. Performs other duties as assigned.

Core responsibilities and essential functions

  • Maintains acceptable accuracy in patient, quality assurance, proficiency and competency testing.
  • Meets department standard for correct patient or specimen identification
  • Meets department standard for error rate in testing or reporting patient or QC results
  • Consistently documents investigation and correct interpretation of QA failures or trends
  • Earns acceptable scores in proficiency testing and personnel competency testing
  • Maintains instrumentation for testing Uses clinical/theoretical knowledge to analyze, investigate, interpret and report lab data
  • Reports lab data accurately and in a timely manner
  • Recognizes the relationship between lab data and clinical findings or expectation
  • Initiates investigation of problems and works to resolution
  • Interprets information from multiple sources Practices information monitoring, investigation, resolution and hand-off to team members.
  • Complies with Pending Log procedure for tracking laboratory test status
  • Documents in the LIS all elements of the Notification Value Call procedure
  • Hands-off information to others according to the department procedure and chain of command
  • Adheres to WellStars Standards of Behavior in a consistent fashion
  • Takes personal responsibility for correction action on constructive criticism. Practices organizational skills for efficiency of time, materials, cost and completing testing.
  • Meets deadlines for turn-around times required by the department
  • Meets department-defined standards for organizational skills
  • Meets department productivity standards
  • Practices cost-efficient work processes that maintain high quality laboratory data.
  • Maintains current personal training, education and practice of policies and procedures Maintains current knowledge and practice of WellStar Policies and procedures, including LIS.
  • Demonstrates adequate knowledge of laboratory regulatory compliance
  • Practices all WellStar and Laboratory Safety Standards
  • Participates in meetings, committees, task forces and project teams
  • Completes monthly, quarterly, or yearly educational requirements. Performs other duties as assigned Complies with all WellStar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Required minimum education

• Associates Medical Technology or Other / Certificate Medical Technology

Required minimum license(S) and certification(S)

  • All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated.
  • MLT(AAB) - Medical Laboratory Technician or MLT(AMT) - Medical Laboratory Technician or MLT(ASCP) - Medical Laboratory Technician or MLT-P - Medical Laboratory Technician Provisional (18 Months) within 1-1/2 Yrs

Additional license(S) and certification(S)

For persons who possess the technician qualifications and have recently moved into the state or completed the academic and/or training requirements, they may be temporarily classified once as technicians for eighteen (18) months to afford them an opportunity to successfully complete an approved qualifying examination. within 1-1/2 Yrs Required

Required minimum experience: Minimum 1 year Laboratory experience Preferred

Required minimum skills

Accuracy

Maintains acceptable accuracy in-patient, quality assurance, proficiency and competency testing.

Critical

Thinking: Uses clinical/theoretical knowledge to analyze, investigate, interpret and report lab data.

Job

Knowledge: Maintains current personal training, education and practice of policies and procedures.

Productivity

Practices organizational skills for efficient of time, materials, cost and availability of lab data.

Communication: Practices information monitoring, investigation, resolution and hand-off to team members

Join us and discover the support to do more meaningful work—and enjoy a more rewarding life. Connect with the most integrated health system in Georgia, and start a future that gives you more.

Requirements

Requires an Associate degree in Medical Technology or a professional certificate and a valid MLT certification (AAB, AMT, or ASCP). A minimum of one year of laboratory experience is required.

  • associate degree
  • professional certificate
  • Accuracy
  • Quality Assurance
  • Communication
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Critical Thinking
  • LIS Operation
  • Job Knowledge
  • Productivity
  • Patient Identification
  • Laboratory Safety
  • Proficiency Testing
  • Laboratory Data Analysis

Posting details

Employment type
Full Time
Work arrangement
On Site
Experience
2-5 yrs
Location
Dallas, Georgia
Posted
Jul 13, 2026
Application
Employer website
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Hiring organization

Wellstar Health System

At Wellstar Health System, our mission is to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. Nationally ranked and locally recognized for our high-quality care, inclusive culture and world-class doctors and caregivers, Wellstar is one of the largest, most integrated...

Salary listed on 15 jobs
IndustryHospitals and Health Care
TypeNonprofit
Size10,001+ employees
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Market context

Georgia medical lab tech roles stay steady

Medical lab tech positions in Georgia are typically driven by ongoing hospital, clinic, and diagnostic lab needs, so demand is often steady rather than tied to one hiring season. These roles can be competitive because employers usually want an associate degree or certificate, prior lab experience, and certification from AAB, AMT, or ASCP within a set timeframe. Before applying, confirm your certification status and match your lab experience to the listed testing and workflow duties; the job requirements and benefits here are AI-summarized from the original posting, which can save you research time.

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