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Donor Technician III

Job Details

Job Ref:
10033889

Location:
Duarte, CA 91009

Category:
Transfusion Medicine

Job Type:
Full-time

Shift:
Days

Pay Rate:
$28.70 - $43.05 per hour

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. 

Full-time role based in Duarte, working four 10-hour shifts per week (40 hours), with every other weekend required. Responsibilities include allogeneic donor phlebotomy, automated apheresis procedures, and collection of samples for HLA tissue typing, serology retesting, blood product manufacturing, and quality control. The role also supports research projects and includes driving blood donor vehicles (bloodmobile and box truck). Work is performed across donor center, blood bank, and mobile blood drive environments. The position actively participates in quality assurance activities to ensure blood safety and service excellence. Requires consistently professional, courteous, timely, and accurate service, strong problem-solving skills, and a commitment to providing high-quality care to donors, internal partners, and the public.

As a successful candidate, you will: 

  • Perform whole blood, apheresis, and donor screening procedures in compliance with established SOPs and regulatory requirements.
  • Ensure donor safety by recognizing and managing reactions, maintaining competencies, and keeping all required certifications current.
  • Maintain accurate documentation, quality control, equipment maintenance, and participate in quality assurance and SOP reviews/validations.
  • Support mobile and off‑site blood drives, including setup, breakdown, inspections, inventory management, and transport of equipment and blood products.
  • Operate bloodmobiles and large vehicles safely, handling logistics, packing, loading, and temperature‑sensitive transport of blood products.
  • Manufacture blood products and perform required quality control in compliance with FDA cGMP and applicable SOPs.

Qualifications

Your qualifications should include: 

  • High School or equivalent

  • 3 years previous donor/patient care and blood center experience as a donor phlebotomist.

  • CA Certified phlebotomist

  • Current CPR certification through the American Heart Association

  • CA driver’s license with good driving record

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.

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