Components Lab Technician - Evenings

Description

LifeSouth Community Blood Centers is hiring detail-oriented Components Lab Technicians in Birmingham, AL.

**Schedule and Availability**Must be available to consistently work evening shifts, including weekdays, rotating weekends, and holidays. Scheduled workdays will vary based on operational needs.

What You'll Be Responsible For

Help prepare a safe blood supply for patients by carefully handling, processing, and storing blood components intended for transfusion. You’ll follow established procedures in a regulated laboratory where accuracy, teamwork, and dependable attendance are essential.

What You'll Do

• Receive and inspect blood and blood components to confirm they meet acceptance and safety requirements; report concerns to laboratory leadership.
• Process whole blood into separate components and operate laboratory equipment, including centrifuges, sterile connection devices, and blood filters.
• Store blood components properly and manage quarantined products; label, release, or discard products as trained and authorized under LifeSouth procedures.
• Accurately enter product information into LifeSouth’s blood banking software and maintain processing records and required quality control documentation.
• Clean and maintain laboratory equipment and work areas while following LifeSouth’s safety requirements and standard operating procedures.
• Complete required training, communicate with your team, and maintain reliable attendance for evening shifts and varying schedules, including rotating weekends and holidays.

What You’ll Need

• High school diploma or GED, valid driver’s license, and reliable transportation; must meet and maintain LifeSouth’s driver eligibility requirements.
• Willingness and ability to work evening shifts and varying schedules, including rotating weekends and holidays, with consistent attendance.
• Basic computer and math skills, with the ability to maintain accurate, organized records.
• Ability to read and follow instructions, safety rules, and laboratory procedures.
• Strong communication, teamwork, and time-management skills.
• Manual dexterity to operate laboratory equipment and ability to perform physical duties, including standing, walking, repetitive movements, and occasionally lifting or moving up to 50 pounds, with reasonable accommodation as applicable.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Previous laboratory experience preferred; no prior laboratory experience required.

Our Benefits

• Paid Time Off: Generous PTO plan
• Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance available to full-time employees the first of the month after 60 days
• Mental Wellness Support: Resources and counseling through telehealth
• Life Insurance: Free basic coverage for full-time employees
• Health Savings Account: Employer match each pay period
• Retirement Benefits: Employer-funded retirement plan for vested employees and a 403(b) plan offered
• Early Wage Access: Access to wages before payday

Who We Are

LifeSouth is a non-profit community blood bank serving more than 150 hospitals in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee. We are committed to meeting the blood supply needs of hospitals and their patients by providing the highest quality blood components and services. With more than 45 donor centers, 55 bloodmobiles and 2,000 blood drives a month, our LifeSouth team is dedicated to making sure the blood is there when you or your family is in need.

Our Mission

To provide a safe blood supply that meets or exceeds the needs in each community we serve and to provide a variety of services in support of ongoing and emerging blood and transfusion related activities.

This is a full-time position. Starting salary range is $14.50 - $15.95 an hour. Criminal background check and drug screen required upon conditional offer of hire. Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer/Drug-Free/Tobacco Free Workplace.

The position description may not include all the duties and responsibilities of the job. Duties and responsibilities that are not listed, but which the employee may be expected to perform, will fall within the scope of the skills, knowledge and training for the position.

LifeSouth is a Drug-Free and Tobacco-Free Workplace. LifeSouth is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor as well as an affirmative action employer and provides equal opportunity to all persons, regardless of race, religion, age, gender, disability, status as a protected veteran, national origin, color, or any other classification in accordance with federal, state, and local statutes, regulations, and ordinances. Veterans are encouraged to self-identify as LifeSouth desires to provide protected veterans priority referrals for open positions. LifeSouth complies with all laws and regulations associated with the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the Americans with Disability Act (ADA). LifeSouth is an E-Verify employer.

If you require any assistance to complete the application process or during the interview due to a disability, please contact the LifeSouth region where you are applying or call 1-888-795-2707 to request an accommodation. Applications may be completed at a LifeSouth facility or mailed to corporate headquarters in lieu of the on-line application process.