Apheresis Technician

Job Title: Apheresis Technician Job Description
This role requires frequent travel throughout Texas on a mobile unit, including overnight trips up to 50% of the workweek, typically lasting up to two nights per week. The travel schedules are usually provided 2-3 weeks in advance. The main responsibilities include ensuring regulatory compliance, assessing donor eligibility, monitoring patients, and maintaining product quality. You will perform apheresis collections, phlebotomy, blood draws, documentation, and data entry. Additionally, you will educate donors, obtain consent, provide pre/post-donation instructions, and deliver excellent customer service. Monitoring, assessing, and managing donor reactions, as well as reporting adverse events, are crucial aspects of the role. You will review medical records, lab results, and collection documentation for accuracy, schedule donor/patient appointments, and coordinate with staff and external partners. Furthermore, you will label, package, and ship blood products, maintain supplies and equipment, including quality control and maintenance, uphold donor confidentiality, complete required training, support team operations, and train new staff.
Responsibilities
- Ensure regulatory compliance, donor eligibility, patient monitoring, and product quality.
- Perform apheresis collections, phlebotomy, blood draws, documentation, and data entry.
- Educate donors, obtain consent, provide pre/post-donation instructions, and deliver excellent customer service.
- Monitor, assess, and manage donor reactions and report adverse events.
- Review medical records, lab results, and collection documentation for accuracy.
- Schedule donor/patient appointments and coordinate with staff and external partners.
- Label, package, and ship blood products; maintain supplies and equipment, including quality control and maintenance.
- Maintain donor confidentiality, complete required training, and support team operations.
- Train new staff and assist with departmental needs.
Essential Skills
- Phlebotomy
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Valid Driver's License
- Bilingual
- 3 years of phlebotomy experience
- 2 years of peripheral IV insertion experience preferred
- 2 years of experience in Apheresis, Dialysis, Plasma collection, Platelet collection, Blood center operations, blood draw, apheresis, IV insertion, oncology
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Experience in Blood center operations
- Experience in Dialysis
- Experience in Plasma collection
- Experience in Platelet collection
Work Environment
You will be part of a team consisting of a supervisor and five colleagues, all performing similar responsibilities. The department is expanding due to increased funding and programs in San Antonio, building out a new branch. Team members support each other, allowing for time off without concern for unfinished tasks. Training occurs Monday-Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM for 3-4 weeks, with the standard schedule being Monday-Friday from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM, including overtime opportunities. As mobile operations expand, the schedule may shift to a 4-day workweek. You must be comfortable with significant travel throughout Texas, driving company vehicles, including the mobile bus and fleet vehicles, and running occasional errands. Dress code requires any solid color scrubs. Initially, you will spend approximately 80% of your time at headquarters and 20% in the mobile unit, transitioning to 80% in the mobile unit and 20% at headquarters long-term.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of San Antonio, TX.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $21.00 - $23.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:

Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of San Antonio, TX.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Nov 24, 2026.
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in San Antonio,TX. About Actalent

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