General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Work Schedule Monday - Friday, 8-hour shifts beginning as early as 6:00am or as late as 7:00am with rotating weekends and holidays Posted Date 10/13/2026 Salary Range: $59.37 - 79.11 Hourly Employment Type 2 - Staff: Career Duration indefinite Job # 33464

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Join our team as a Clinical Laboratory Scientist where you will conduct various technical procedures in the Anesthesiology, Core Laboratory, Special Chemistry, and Point of Care. Your primary duties include specimen processing, method development, testing across multiple areas such as chemistry, hematology, coagulation, immunoassay, and blood gases. You will also be responsible for maintaining laboratory instruments, performing quality control, calibration, reagent preparation, and data entry.

Salary Range: $59.37/hour - $79.11/hour

Job Qualifications

• Current, valid California Clinical Laboratory Scientist license

• Bachelor’s Degree

• Ability to work rotating weekends and holidays

• Demonstrated technical competence in high-volume chemistry/hematology

• Working knowledge of lab safety, basic lab skills (e.g., pipetting, dilutions, specimen integrity), and test methodologies

• Proficiency in practical application of fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions for making reagents and calculations

• Ability to perform repetitive tasks such as pipetting and computer data entry

• Two years of recent experience in a high-volume laboratory setting – preferred 

• Must pass the Ishihara Color Vision exam, i.e. visual acuity including color differentiation

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.
Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.