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Scheduled Weekly Hours:

20

Job Highlights

• Part-time position at 20 hours per week.
• Benefits offered.
• Competitive hourly pay range of $29.70 to $45.57, based on experience.

About this role

Join Emplify Health by Gundersen Hillsboro as a Medical Lab Scientist and help deliver accurate, timely laboratory results that support patient care. In this role, you will perform a variety of automated and non-automated testing, troubleshoot technical issues, support quality standards, and collaborate with the lab team to keep operations running smoothly. Your work helps advance our mission of empathy amplified by supporting safe, reliable care behind the scenes and at the bedside.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform automated and non-automated laboratory testing and maintain competency through departmental skills rosters.
• Recognize unexpected test results, troubleshoot problems, and take corrective action for technical, instrument, pre-analytical, and post-analytical issues.
• Plan and prioritize workload demands to help ensure accurate and timely laboratory results.
• Assist with specimen processing and collection, including phlebotomy, capillary draws, and point of care testing.
• Monitor quality control, quality assurance, and variance reporting to ensure acceptable performance standards.
• Evaluate and interpret ambiguous or changing data and determine appropriate corrective action.
• Understand laboratory data flow through the laboratory information system and electronic health records.
• Support continuity of service during system failures so laboratory data continues to be delivered accurately and on time.
• Participate in selecting, validating, and implementing new test methodologies and instrumentation.
• Train and educate others in the laboratory on new technologies and procedures.
• Orient, train, and assess new employees and students.
• Personally interact with, engage with, and care for patients.
• Ensure patient safety.

What you will need

• Associate degree in medical laboratory required.
• Primary source verification or a copy of the diploma or transcript for the specific degree must be on file at time of hire.
• 2 years of prior experience in a clinical laboratory preferred.
• Medical Technologist certification preferred.
• Medical Laboratory Technician certification preferred.
• Strong problem solving, teamwork, and prioritization skills.
• Ability to work accurately in a fast-paced laboratory environment.

What we offer

• Part-time position at 20 hours per week.
• Competitive hourly compensation based on experience.
• Opportunity to work in a mission-driven health care environment.

Full benefits package, including:

• Growth and development support, including continuing education, tuition assistance, internal training, leadership development, career coaching, and access to a Career Development Center.
• Health and wellbeing benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, HSA contributions, FSAs, wellness incentives, and an employee assistance program.
• Life balance benefits, including PTO starting day one, paid holidays, flexible scheduling, credit union membership, and select discounts.
• Financial future benefits, including a 401(k) with immediate vesting, employer matching, and an annual base contribution.
• Income protection benefits, including employer-paid life insurance, disability coverage, and optional supplemental protections.

Our culture & values

At Emplify Health by Gundersen, we live our mission of empathy amplified through belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork, and humility. As a Medical Lab Scientist, you play an important role in supporting patient care through accurate testing, quality standards, and dependable service. Our organization includes more than 10,000 caregivers across seven hospitals and 65 clinics, all working together to close health disparities and strengthen healthy communities. In Hillsboro, your work helps clinicians make informed decisions for the patients they serve.

Let's connect!

Megan Wopat, Manager of Human Resources
[email protected] | (608) 489-8106

If you need assistance with any portion of the application or have questions about the position, please contact the recruiter listed below:

Primary Recruiter:

Megan Wopat

Recruiter Email Address:

[email protected]

We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values — belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility — our pillars set our foundation and our future.

Equal Opportunity Employer