Veterinary Laboratory Technician (Part-Time)

BluePearl Pet Hospital in Pittsburgh (North Hills), PA is hiring an experienced Veterinary Lab Technician!   

Shift: Saturday and Sunday hours range from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

As a Veterinary Lab Technician, you will:  

• Maintains a safe and clean laboratory by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations. 

• Run quality control samples to verify accurate results on equipment. 

• Perform regular maintenance and upkeep of laboratory equipment. 

• Prepare and document specimens for external laboratory. 

• Provide an environment to furnish high quality, accurate diagnostic laboratory results 

• Run necessary lab requests in a timely precise manner 

• Record appropriate results in patient's written and electronic files. 

• Maintain accurate records on Quality Control, billing and send-out laboratory samples. Compassionately, calmly and gently approaches and handles patients. 

• Have a basic understanding of animals, care and handling 

• Approaches and handles patients according to safety protocols and core values. 

• Uses practice management software to maintain client and patient records according to hospital protocol. 

• Maintains solid grasp of common veterinary medical terms and abbreviations and is able to converse with other veterinary professionals in medical terms. 

• Implement appropriate animal husbandry skills to decrease disease spread, injury and stress to patients. 

Why BluePearl? 

• Our passion is pets. We offer Trupanion pet insurance and discounts to our associates for pet treatments, procedures, and food. 

• We encourage you to grow with us. Our technicians are leveled by their skillset and move up in level as they gain more skills and experience. We are focused on developing our associates into leaders through talent development programs and leadership workshops. As a member of Mars Veterinary Health, our associates have endless opportunities to advance in his/her career. 

• In order to transform and lead the industry through innovative quality medicine and care, we understand the importance of continuous learning. We offer annual continuing education allowance, free continuing education sessions, our own BluePearl University for training, and our clinicians have access to over 2,000 medical journals. 

We value your health and well-being as an associate by providing you with the following: 

• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance options. 

• Parental leave benefits. 

• Flexible work schedules. 

• Time to reset, rewind, and reflect through our paid time off and floating holiday plans. 

• We promote a family-like culture in our hospitals. We are all in this together. We believe in working together to lead the industry by enriching lives through remarkable care for pets. 

BluePearl is committed to a diverse work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and you will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug Free Workplace.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or sponsorship transfer. Applicants must possess unrestricted, current authorization to work in the U.S. and not require future sponsorship for an employment-based green card.